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I believe, Shopify ultimately uses Stripe for the payment gateway.

I see this differently. This is a government document, but one that investors will read now and refer back to in the future. Why make it plain boring text when you can spin this document into a reason to invest?

This is an opportunity to tell the world who you are. Interested parties read these for a reason. It might as well look how you want it to look, as long as the same necessary content is listed.

Insanely low. Strangest part of the article.

Potentially it wasn't a successful exit? Dirty term sheet or multiple down rounds and $200m wasn't a successful exit?

I've been to Cafe X multiple times. This makes a GREAT cup of coffee, matcha, or espresso. It's high quality.

This is not just vending machine coffee.

The underrated aspect of this is on-demand app ordering.

Example - You're walking to work or your next meeting in SF. Cafe X is on the way. Two blocks ahead, you order your drink. As you walk by, you punch in your code and go on with your day.

The interaction is seamless and simple.

Great product!

Great find. No bias at all...

Plenty of articles say that organic is not worth it due to no nutritional value. That is not the reason I've ever heard anybody say they purchase organic fruits and veggies. It's the chemicals.

I don't want to eat food that has been sprayed with chemicals over and over again to kill the various predators to that plant. I also don't want those chemicals to be in the water supply or ground.

It's more than just nutrition.

They can sell my location but somehow can't figure out how to share that information with emergency services.

Few questions that you may or may not want to answer on here.

Who is their telephony provider? Is this a landline or mobile?

What type of business? Could they afford to shutdown their phone number for a few days if they notified their customers? Could they change the number on their website for a brief period of time(Directing calls to a new number)? All depends on where they get their leads from. Maybe setup a quick IVR to deflect the robo calls? Press 1 for sales, press 2 for support, etc. could filter out the robots?

Unfortunately, anti-spam in telecom is limited, especially if they are spoofing the number and changing them up. A service like nomorobo.com might be helpful, but again, depends on their existing infrastructure.

Happy to help the situation. I've been in telecom on the engineering side and sales side for 10+ years. Email in profile.

I invest with Groundfloor.us. So far it's been a great experience and have had ~10% returns. They are for residential only and have varying levels of risk based on previous success of those looking for the money. I'd recommend looking into them as well. They only are able to collect money from certain states.

Provide value to others without expecting much in return. Work for cheap / free while you don't have many expenses.

Build up that network by helping new startups with tasks they are working on. If you help...10 startups over the next 5 years, you will build a larger network and be more valuable than just meeting people at networking events.

One of those company's may turn into something and you can get in early. If not, you will have advocates in your corner that will make introduction to others.

Get out there and do the work, make friends that are working on interesting project, provide value, they won't forget it when it comes time to ask for something in return.