From Square S1 to ApplePay, to Microsoft Wallet to Bitcoin to Identifying Business Opportunities

From Square S1 to ApplePay, to Microsoft Wallet to Bitcoin to Identifying Business Opportunities

In this week's episode:

  1. Square S1 thoughts
  2. One Women takes Square for millions- Rookie mistake takes 2 years to discover- solitary seller represented nearly 23% of Square’s transaction and advance losses for the first half of 2015 http://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/square-fraud-losses-single-seller
  3. Apple Pay turned 1 year
  4. Microsoft wallet (http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/microsoft-takes-another-look-at-mobile-payments/)
  5. Identifying Business Opportunities - is there a pattern to identify these ideas?
  6. How 3 guys created Blue Apron, a $2 billion recipe-delivery business with 2,500 employees, in 36 months - Blue Apron (http://www.businessinsider.com/blue-apron-founder-story-sai-100-2015-10)
  7. Slack $2.8B http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/slacks-breakneck-growth
  8. Pinterest valuation: http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/pinterests-payments-push-documents-leaked/
  9. Bitcoin pricing
  10. What 2016 Holds for Bitcoin Businesses (October 18, 2015, coindesk.com)
  11. EU Rules Bitcoin Is a Currency, Not a Commodity — Virtually (Oct 22, 2015, wsj.com)
  12. Sweden first country cashless (http://cointelegraph.com/news/115452/sweden-to-become-worlds-first-cashless-country)

Hosts: Mike Townsend, Faisal Khan and Brian Roemmele

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