Business in a Box

Post by BallinBige » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 2:51 PM UTC

abalone wrote: post #120

samstave wrote: post #119

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Starbucks is a billion dollar company with a HUGE business inertia. They have exceptional busines intelligence in their supply chain, services, etc... Their adoption of square speaks nothing of the competition in the not-starbucks market. Just because starbucks is using square does not mean that it is the right fit for an organization that is miniscule by comparison. Where the company is so small they need to rely on…

Square has the most traction with "miniscule" businesses, too.

Post by daemon13 » Thu, Feb 21, 2013, 6:41 PM UTC

erikpukinskis wrote: post #129

thinkcomp wrote: post #83

It's too bad that Square gets all the press when the tech community should really be spending (at least some of) its energy trying to defeat a law that makes it a federal crime to start a payments company that actually does change things. See http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=86

I support your cause, so I'm going to give you some feedback. Feel free to ignore it. I've seen a lot of posts and comments from you on HN. I've visited FaceCash a number of times. You've built some cool infrastructure, and I think many of your visions about what the future of money should look like are spot on. That said, you come across as having a lot of anger and entitlement and that makes me want to ignore you,…

Post by rohern » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

juan_juarez wrote: post #64

mmanfrin wrote: post #31

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There are plenty of companies doing this already, Square is pretty slow to the table. Caveat: I work for one such company (GoPago).

The fact that there's so much activity in the space suggests that it's undergoing disruption. For years, POS systems have been... well... POSes. They're unfriendly, overpriced, lacking in features and just all around bad . The tech has been easily 10 years behind the curve. We've got a new generation of POS systems coming into place using commodity hardware, the internet & business model that doesn't involve paying s…