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What would convince you as a consumer? If everyday products were 3% cheaper, would that impact you at all? 5% cheaper? At what point do you think people would care? What about cash…

> Now, with only my consumer brain, does what they say actually make sense? Do merchants actually want to get rid of the 2-3% transaction fees? Except that you are now at the mercy…

Skills will more or less be the same. Communication skills may be slightly more important depending on people's understanding of whatever language is used. The biggest issue will b…

Yeah its likely. The moment I saw the Mainvest homepage I was reminded of the SS homepage when I was there. It looks like there have been changes since. I assumed a founder or one …

> That you would call them shady says more about you than them. You may be right there. I was pretty miserable when I worked for SS and see most things from that period in a negati…

I wasn't proposing anything. I still think it is worth shedding light on shady practices so people are at least aware. Just because something is define in law does not make it righ…

It's not an article and I was making an assumption. I worked at a similar company (with one the the founders of this place) and the idea was that "affinity based" loans have a lowe…

It is still worth pointing out as it is a little shady, even if it isn't illegal. In some ways it is similar to SlideBelt and how MissionBelt essentially stole their product. Excep…

I think "Main Street" is referring to small businesses, which are usually outside of ordinary people's reach when it comes to investing, since most business investing is limited to…

There's a fine line between trying to improve an idea and cheap knock-offs and stealing an ideas and identities. Uber and Lyft are very similar, but at least they could be differen…

I used to work with your co-founder Felix. The idea isn't bad, but this feels like a direct copy of the company where we worked, StreetShares. They had the exact same "Main Street"…