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by collinvine 7y ago
I run a company with 20 remote team members. There's a weird perverse incentive to "show face" and be available when working remotely vs. making yourself unreachable so you can focus on things that matter. We joined the Holop
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$25k colony hackathon (JS and Ethereum blockchain)(colony.io)
1 points by collinvine 8y ago|0 comments
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by collinvine 9y ago
Would you be up for chatting? We've been wanting to talk to people from the Assembly team to hear about their experience.
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by collinvine 9y ago
We have a beta product at the moment. We're doing closed testing as it's not feature complete: task management with a token-based incentive model.
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by collinvine 9y ago
We have a beta user who ran into this problem. He posted tasks, no one took them. He upped the price by 2x, and one task was taken. He upped the price again to 3x, and all tasks were taken.
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by collinvine 9y ago
We run something called a "collaboration network" that is using our early beta product. The product isn't feature complete yet, just task management with a token incentive model. So we're doing early experiments but can&
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by collinvine 9y ago
I think the token allows for more market-based economies. Maybe that's a market economy within a firm, or a market economy within a coworking space amongst members, or in open source projects. Sure, you could use fiat or a non-blockcha
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by collinvine 9y ago
Great question. This is the biggest opportunity for software, in my opinion. The boundaries between the firm and the market are, in part, governed by transaction costs. (There are more reasons. You mentioned you're interested in readin
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by collinvine 9y ago
It's a good question. From what I've read, they act like securities leading up to the event, but only for a one off event. Afterwards the instrument (ticket) has no value. That makes it unlike a security.
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by collinvine 9y ago
One argument here is that the law is settled. If it's securities law that applies, as the SEC has started, then it's been settled for over 80 years.
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by collinvine 9y ago
> I do not agree that pre-selling a purely functional token is necessarily an offering of securities under Howey or otherwise Are you a lawyer? Because it wasn't the opinion of the author; it was the opinion of their lawyers. > o
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On creating a better employee equity plan(blog.colony.io)
1 points by collinvine 9y ago|0 comments
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by collinvine 10y ago
[REMOTE] Frontend Engineer (React + Redux) | Colony.io -- Company: https://colony.io early stage, seed-funded startup Team: 8 full-time remote; 3 backend, 1 frontend, 1 designer; 2 PhDs & 2 Brits; see AngelList for more Prod
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by collinvine 10y ago
[REMOTE] Frontend Engineer (React + Redux) | Colony.io -- Company : https://colony.io early stage, seed-funded startup Team : 8 full-time remote; 3 backend, 1 frontend, 1 designer; 2 PhDs & 2 Brits; see AngelList for more