I think they thought this through. They probably realized they couldn't own all of crowd funding. Wouldn't it be weird seeing a "Fund my new convenience store" on kickstarter. Instead they do own creative projects, which is brilliant because that's where innovation happens.
Kickstarter's new policy is about them not wanting to act as an online store, not about taking away the "fund my new convenience store" vs creative projects. Its more about them not wanting to be used by anyone (creative projects included) as if they are there to basically be a selling platform. At least thats how I viewed it.
What if he did have a big launch, with an app for android and a web version? What if it was a big failure and he lost more money than he made? Would that have made sense? This is a new product that he is testing the waters with. He chose the quickest and most effective way of doing this.
Has anyone had success using Dwolla? I love what they are doing and I tried to get behind them, but adoption rate is nil. If the sign up process was less of a pain I would feel better getting clients on board. It seems like they are just winning tiny battles like this just to stay in the press.
I have used it, and it works exactly as advertised. The only think I didn't like is that it put something on my facebook feed about paying somebody, which was gross. I can see why they are trying to get more exposure, but that was a bad move.
Other than that, it's just what it says on the tin.
as a retailer, I incentivize customers to pay with it. the costs of promoting dwolla right now to increase the adoption rate among my customers is still lower than paypal or credit card fees.
I haven't noticed any big changes the last five years I've been using it. Other than the whole google facelift its been the best finance tool I've used. Maybe I haven't noticed any new features but what would you be talking about?
Its been a few years since I last checked, but having 'real-time' quotes is better than 15-minute delayed, which I seem to remember it was before. As well as the graphical overlay of the news bulletins on the share ticker graph is good too. Just seems to provide more timely information now, including overseas listings, than it did before. Won't replace my primary broker site, but good if I don't want to login to check a price or two.
Real-time price data represents trades which execute on
the NASDAQ and NYSE exchanges. Volume information, as
well as price data for trades that don’t execute on
those exchanges, are consolidated and delayed by 15
minutes (NASDAQ), 20 minutes (NYSE).
We'll consider it ;) I think Github and Stack come close, but there you still need to know what you're looking for. InterviewStreet does a good job at pre-filtering candidates. Non-the-less, we'll keep that in mind!
Check out yunojuno.com. Similar, but different. I know the guys involved and they are hoping to build a community of freelance designers & developers, using peer recommendations as the glue. In project-led business (e.g. agencies), the 'Hollywood' model of bringing together the right team at at the right time _should_ prevail. That's what they are hoping to enable - giving power / control back to the freelancers themselves.
