Square Files Confidential IPO
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Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#2Please don't swap out original URLs with Google links, even when the URL is paywalled. HN requires original URLs.
It's ok, though, to post a comment to the thread explaining to people how they can read an article. In fact, someone almost always does.
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#3Please don't swap out original URLs with Google links, even when the URL is paywalled. HN requires original URLs. It's ok, though, to post a comment to the thread explaining to people how they can read an article. In fact, someone almost always does.
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#4Please don't swap out original URLs with Google links, even when the URL is paywalled. HN requires original URLs. It's ok, though, to post a comment to the thread explaining to people how they can read an article. In fact, someone almost always does.
Here's how you can read the article ;)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#5Housing is about to get even more expensive in SF...
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#6Please don't swap out original URLs with Google links, even when the URL is paywalled. HN requires original URLs. It's ok, though, to post a comment to the thread explaining to people how they can read an article. In fact, someone almost always does.
Here's how you can read the article ;) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Who has the iOS compatible bookmarklet that will let me do this with one tap?
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#7To me, Square seems a bit rudderless, but to others I'm sure they take that as being opportunistic. Despite Stripe's valuation, most hold that credit card processing fees are not the keys to riches.
Their lending operation is pretty interesting. If structured as a payday loan operation for businesses, it can be quite profitable albeit fraught with regulatory and/or reputation risk. If not structured as a payday loan biz, I don't think there's much meat there. Low credit borrowers won't repay, and higher credit borrowers can seek credit from other sources a much lower rates. e.g. the securitized market. e.g. it's much cheaper for a business owner to borrow against his house to fund his biz than for he or she to borrow from Square.
Such a payday loan biz was just bid on Shartank.
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/assessing-a-kevin-o...
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#8Don't post paywalled articles. We're better than that.
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#9Housing is about to get even more expensive in SF...
How so?
Re: Square Files Confidential IPO
#10Does anyone know where to find IPO dates? I can't seem to find the day that the IPO will take place. In this case they didn't fully finish their filing, but other ones such as BOX, I didn't find out about the IPO until the actual day.