Monthly Archives: December 2008

payment processing?

so receet needs a payment processor. we’d like to offer a paypal-in-miniature type of service for our users, to simply the issues we’ve personally had with ebay’s integration with paypal. the problem is, it doesn’t seem like there’s a solution out there for us. i’ve looked at amazon’s fps/devpay, but that requires users to have [...]
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apple telephone support vs. the mac genius

i’ve been having a few issues with my macbook air (uneven screen backlighting, lines across the screen, port door rubbing against my desk, laptop not sitting evenly on the desk, etc), so i thought i’d take it to the apple store to have them look at it. it was a huge hassle. i had to [...]
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back from cambridge!

so the vc conference was really good: well organized, with interesting speakers, and a good crowd. i think the biggest thing i realized is that the boston-area entrepreneurs and vc’s are interested in a different sort of product. things like bio-tech, green tech, life sciences, etc. seem better represented and our web 2.0 nonsense seems [...]
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cambridge!

we (the team – richard, leo and i) are leaving for mit’s vc conference tomorrow morning. hopefully we’ll glean something useful from the lectures presented and maybe grab a few business cards in the process. we’ll be working hard on fixing the features we already have, as well as adding a few more essential ones. hopefully [...]
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