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collinvine

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About collinvine

cofounder of colony.io (current) and zirtual.com (past)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #21527767

    I run a company with 20 remote team members. There's a weird perverse incentive to "show face" and be available when working remotely vs. making yourself unreachable so you can foc…

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    Comment #15410413

    Would you be up for chatting? We've been wanting to talk to people from the Assembly team to hear about their experience.

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    Comment #15410379

    We have a beta product at the moment. We're doing closed testing as it's not feature complete: task management with a token-based incentive model.

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    Comment #15410361

    We have a beta user who ran into this problem. He posted tasks, no one took them. He upped the price by 2x, and one task was taken. He upped the price again to 3x, and all tasks we…

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    Comment #15410352

    We run something called a "collaboration network" that is using our early beta product. The product isn't feature complete yet, just task management with a token incentive model. S…

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    Comment #15410342

    I think the token allows for more market-based economies. Maybe that's a market economy within a firm, or a market economy within a coworking space amongst members, or in open sour…

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    Comment #15410316

    Great question. This is the biggest opportunity for software, in my opinion. The boundaries between the firm and the market are, in part, governed by transaction costs. (There are …

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    Comment #15373721

    It's a good question. From what I've read, they act like securities leading up to the event, but only for a one off event. Afterwards the instrument (ticket) has no value. That mak…

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    Comment #15373712

    One argument here is that the law is settled. If it's securities law that applies, as the SEC has started, then it's been settled for over 80 years.

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    Comment #15368890

    > I do not agree that pre-selling a purely functional token is necessarily an offering of securities under Howey or otherwise Are you a lawyer? Because it wasn't the opinion of the…

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    Comment #12856826

    [REMOTE] Frontend Engineer (React + Redux) | Colony.io -- Company: https://colony.io early stage, seed-funded startup Team: 8 full-time remote; 3 backend, 1 frontend, 1 designer; 2…

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    Comment #12690273

    [REMOTE] Frontend Engineer (React + Redux) | Colony.io -- Company : https://colony.io early stage, seed-funded startup Team : 8 full-time remote; 3 backend, 1 frontend, 1 designer;…