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Also, life isn't about a list of accomplishments.. Make sure whatever you do it affords you the lifestyle which you want to live. Rich and famous isn't necesarry and life style business' are complete awesome even though they seem to get a bad rap in the startup world. A business that simply provides jobs and pays your salary isn't good enough.. Everyone seems to need the billion dollar exit or its "not worth it."

Here's the answer.. If you never start, you'll never catch up. The end.

companies who fail to live up to their end of the bargin in a bitcoin world won't survive long. I've been shopping on the internet since the 90's and not once have I had to place a chargeback.. Chargebacks are mostly fraud and people wanting shit for free.. In turn goods become higher priced and that cost is passed onto all the other customers.. Anytime I have been unhappy with an internet purchase the company has always given me a refund. The need for chargebacks is truly minimal. Any company that wants to keep their customers is going to issue a refund. Companies that won't are shady and need to go out of business anyway.

Those types of cards aren't available in the state of Vermont. Not sure of other states, but Green Dot, Visa Reloadables, etc aren't available here.

so that you don't have to give your CC info to companies who don't protect it and then have it stolen, so that some jack off in Texas can go buy 200 rolls of TP from wal-mart. That's enough reason. Push payments > Pull Payments

what security does a bank offer that a hidden paper wallet can't? Bank security is a false sense of security.. Your money in a bank is not yours. Ever tried to withdraw more than 10k at once? You'll be given 50 questions you need to answer on why because of fractional reserve banking and other bankster tricks. FDIC is smoke and mirrors so don't even say you're insured against theft. It's far easier to steal money through identity theft with a pull payment system.

I want to be my own bank because I know how to use and protect my money better than some crooked bankster. I'm tired of the poor being prey'd on by fee's, and overdrafts. I'm tired of banksters creating money out of thin air backed by nothing but a gun. I'm tired of the wars, really i'm just tired of the entire fucked up system.

How many banks have been robbed now? We must be getting into near 4 or 5 digits by now. Anytime you store large amounts of money in a centralized location, people are going to go after it..

Time to be your own bank.

just 1.75m? That's nothing compared to the 300M banks lost the other day, and probably more when its all said and done.

Yep, lets arrest everyone.. FOR THE CHILDREN! Everytime a case comes up you law enforcement bring up the same big scarry bad men.. Drugs, Pedophiles, and Terrorists.. GET LOST

oh, so that's why they lay off staff during record profits.. to not maximize short term profit to share holders?

love that they're trying something new and exciting.. you're gonna fail when you're going for it.. but at least someones going for it. looking forward to hyper loop.

I guess, but there are so many better ways these days, if your product is worth building to get it built than to give up a huge piece of your pie. Crowd funding, etc.. if you have 10 years of R&D well you're better off just taking the idea to another company.

This is a generalization, but I think owners get their priorites mixed up when they are sitting on millions in free money.. their burn rate is insane.. they spend money on the wrong things, etc.. fancy offices, whatever, and they aren't even profitable. We work from home, and share a co-working space as well as an office with 2 other companies..

Office life is over rated and is a giant waste of startup funds. =/

wasnt that done by funcom though or one of those companies? They've shit the bed with all of their latest MMO's.. Age of Conan was suppose to be amazing too and was a true snooze fest. All these games have become a grind fest.. kill 8 rats, yadda yadda.. i want a real sandbox to build a castle whereever i want..

I had huge expectations for darkfall too, but Aventurine is a joke of a company.

reason number 472 to never take funding.. if your business can not be bootstrapped successfully, it's likely your business is going to never turn a profit. Funding is silly, i'd never subject any business i'm involved with to a board room full of investors that don't give a shit about me or my business and only care about PROFIT! MOAR PROFIT! blech.

So glad we're bootstrapped.. we're not doing millions a month in business, but we don't need to.. we've been profitable for nearly a decade, a SaaS service since 2002, and we do about 100k/mo in revenue. Pays the bills, pays our people, and we're all so much happier with life.