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CEO of Cheddar here. I think this is a big step in the right direction for Stripe (unclear pricing aside). We’ve been thinking about usage based billing for a long time now. We bui…

This is pretty much what we do at SproutBox. Though we offer a whole team: designers, coders, accounting and HR support, etc. It's pretty rad.

Social media is SproutBox's primary source of deal flow. It just makes sense when you have an application process like we do that we would tweet about apps opening and closing-- an…

We've been ironing out this process over the last year. We inject a venture with need resources up front and then taper them off. That way we don't continuously struggle with confl…

This is reminds me of how SproutBox came to be. The 3 founders were all considering starting their own ventures and decided to pool resources. Things have evolved a lot since then,…

Great suggestions. 1. The ads were too much for sure. When each ad was made it didn't seem too bad, but once all the dancing was on the page at once we knew it wasn't going to work…

I agree that as a company we're in great position to capitalize on this opportunity. Repurposing our core real-time editing technology to create something like EtherPad may be a ve…

Maybe down the road. We are only about 3 days old. :)

Squad is one of my passion projects. And while I love it, I've never really thought of it as a competitor/replacement for EtherPad. Squad serves a great purpose for developers work…

The first version of Squad didn't lock people out, but after some testing we liked the lock out method for code review and help purposes. The goggle wave everyone type at once stuf…

We looked into using Wave as the basis for http://squadedit.com . But we quickly realized to really use it effectively you needed a different Wave for each of say your model, view …

I posted the HN link on Twitter. Looks like it's a bunch of my friends. God bless'em. Sorry about that. I'd love some non softball comments/feedback. So fire away.

Thanks for posting this on Hacker News, Josh. We're pretty excited. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I'd be glad to try to answer.

That actually seems worse than working for someone. At least it's their idea that gets screwed up when you work for someone. Watching someone screw up your idea, now that really su…

Now that I'm thinking about it, I should have just rick rolled to Hold on. Damn. It's always some mundane detail.

The answer to your question actually happens to be pretty awesome. Not on purpose, but timing just works out that the answer is: Hold on for one more day.

My presentation from Ignite Bloomington. Thought some struggling startups might enjoy.

It's not rejection guys. It's non-selection. Oh... wait... no here it is pretty much just rejection.

Obviously brilliant-- but more in a kinda gritty 'only works once' way. Like the reaction I had when I first saw the million dollar home page: A little ill, but mostly just mad I d…

It's trendy to bash Long Tail, but doesn't your comment imply that it's prevalent enough that a entrepreneur should read, disagree or agree with it?

I think the premise of the article is misguided. If they need time tracking with accounting software integration, have they tried Harvest? Linda sounds like the problem not basecam…