SambaSambaSamba

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by SambaSambaSamba 1y ago
What would convince you as a consumer? If everyday products were 3% cheaper, would that impact you at all? 5% cheaper? At what point do you think people would care? What about cash only businesses? As a consumer would you prefer if you coul
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by SambaSambaSamba 1y ago
> Now, with only my consumer brain, does what they say actually make sense? Do merchants actually want to get rid of the 2-3% transaction fees? Except that you are now at the mercy of MasterCard/Visa. Sure it might not be a problem
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by SambaSambaSamba 1y ago
Skills will more or less be the same. Communication skills may be slightly more important depending on people's understanding of whatever language is used. The biggest issue will be cultural. Don't be a workaholic. Don't live
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
Yeah its likely. The moment I saw the Mainvest homepage I was reminded of the SS homepage when I was there. It looks like there have been changes since. I assumed a founder or one of the employees was the one to post the link. I was genuine
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
> That you would call them shady says more about you than them. You may be right there. I was pretty miserable when I worked for SS and see most things from that period in a negative light. I don't mean to sound adversarial, but wha
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
I wasn't proposing anything. I still think it is worth shedding light on shady practices so people are at least aware. Just because something is define in law does not make it right or wrong. All we can really do is inform people and l
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
It's not an article and I was making an assumption. I worked at a similar company (with one the the founders of this place) and the idea was that "affinity based" loans have a lower chance of defaulting. I have no idea if the
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
It is still worth pointing out as it is a little shady, even if it isn't illegal. In some ways it is similar to SlideBelt and how MissionBelt essentially stole their product. Except in that case I believe it was a family relation and n
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
I think "Main Street" is referring to small businesses, which are usually outside of ordinary people's reach when it comes to investing, since most business investing is limited to "accredited investors". Small busi
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
There's a fine line between trying to improve an idea and cheap knock-offs and stealing an ideas and identities. Uber and Lyft are very similar, but at least they could be differentiated. Lyft had tips at the start. The apps, sites, UX
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by SambaSambaSamba 6y ago
I used to work with your co-founder Felix. The idea isn't bad, but this feels like a direct copy of the company where we worked, StreetShares. They had the exact same "Main Street" theme an overused it a bit. The "About&