- Startups - SendGrid Startup of the Week #5 - Nate Stewart of ZingCheckout

发布时间 2012-08-03 21:15:08    来源

0:38: Welcome to Startup of the Week! SendGrid ad 3:25: What is ZingCheckout? 4:15: How is this different from Square? 5:25: Why did Square go native app? Snobbery of Silicon Valley elite or strategic decision to drive iPad sales and have better user experience? 6:38: Are you aiming at mid-size companies, large companies? 7:35: What's it like going up against Square, now a multi-billion-dollar company? What is that like as an entrepreneur? Too herculean to convince investors, get employees? 9:15: What about the price difference? How does this compare on price basis to something like Square or traditional POS? 9:45: What do they charge per month, a traditional POS? 10:20: When you try to get larger location to adopt, how do they react to $49 price? 11:25: How important is reporting in all of this? How hard is it do reporting in traditional POS? 12:30: You are in Austin now, started in Los Angeles -- further and further away from the Valley. What is the thinking there? 14:30: 176 followers on AngelList and a lot of positive comments. Nolan Bushnell as advisor. How has AngelList process been for you guys? 15:40: You have Nolan and [ Nimble founder ] Jon Ferrara as advisors. Jason notes he invested in Nimble. How does a 29-year-old, first-time entrepreneur land such advisors? [ Nate says Ferrara is only a reference; he saw product at SXSW ] 17:15: How do you land a high-end advisor, how does it work? 19:15: What's next? Panic out there with Facebook and Zynga crashing, brutally depressing to be raising an angel round? What is your sense of the angel market today? 20:20: Seems like your team is all engineering or product. Is the fourth person product or sales? 21:30: I think that gives you a leg up, that you are a product-driven team. To build a Square competitor for $50k that works -- I take it people are impressed? 22:45: What is the big struggle right now: raising money, getting customers? What keeps you up at night? 23:50: You could be the front-end for somebody else? A merchant bank? 24:15: You call them ISOs? 25:15: How do you decide on how much free to give in your freemium model? 27:15: Would you take $1k from 1k people? 27:30: What if it were 100 people at $10K each? 28:00: Thank you, SendGrid! See you next time. Want to support TWiST another way? Use bit.ly/twistamazon when you shop and a portion of your purchase will go toward helping keep independent media like TWiST on air! Keep up with the latest from our sister company, LAUNCH: Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap http://www.launch.co/blog/good-to-great-to-excellent-a-roadmap.html Building a Better Techmeme http://www.launch.co/blog/building-a-better-techmeme.html LAUNCH Looking for an Awesome Full Stack Engineer/Developer http://www.launch.co/blog/launch-looking-for-an-awesome-full-stack-engineerdeveloper.html Live Blogging LAUNCH Education & Kids - Day Two http://www.launch.co/blog/live-blogging-launch-education-kids-day-two.html FOLLOW ON TWITTER Jason: @jason Nate: @becomevocal ZingCheckout: @zingcheckout SendGrid: @sendgrid

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