@jkwade Knowing the upfront cost of a hardware is effectively eliminated, what else would the “phone as a POS” solution have to offer to make the value prop compelling enough to switch from their existing payments provider?
Subtly user hostile campaign by @Hertz.
“Click here to extend your points.”
Why not do it for me?
Only reason I can think of is that their email open rate is low, so they’ll save $$$ if people don’t read this campaign. They get the “moral high ground�� of offering. 😡
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1/4 Square Capital has received U.S. Treasury and SBA approval to be a PPP lender, and we will start rolling out our PPP loan applications this week. We continue to work with our partner Celtic Bank as they have existing expertise as a leading SBA lender.
“No firm’s action could have prepared it for an event where the revenue stream literally entirely dried up overnight...Such an assumption is ludicrous. You just simply can’t operate if you think the tail risk is in the center of the distribution.”
This piece by @TimDuy is required reading:
“For the macroeconomy, it’s really not that complicated. Stop looking for someone to blame because there is no one to blame.”
https://t.co/Cy5UEHAu7Y
I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://t.co/hVkUczDQmz
SBA Diaster Loan portal “undergoing maintenance” right now. Really tough time now to be a small business owner trying to make ends meet without access to relief
@sarthakgh@tillermoney Have been using @tillermoney for a few months now and love it. Much more flexibility to customize and don’t have to correct transactions like @mint
Love this investment memo from @tylertringas and the team at Earnest, describing why they believe verticalized B2B SaaS is effectively an emerging new asset class: https://t.co/ywd2rbBk4y
The ultimate irony is not the MBA to burger path, but instead that the path provides better opportunity for both the recent MBA and the seller.
Millions of small, boring businesses need to transition and lots of ambitious people are looking for opportunity.
It's beautiful.