Comments on: The Principles of a Start-Up: Part 4 of Open’s Interview with BillMonk http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/the-principles-of-a-start-up-part-4-of-opens-interview-with-billmonk/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:29:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: risa http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/the-principles-of-a-start-up-part-4-of-opens-interview-with-billmonk/comment-page-1/#comment-640 risa Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:04:43 +0000 http://open.touchbasic.com/journal/?p=265#comment-640 thankschuck! that's pretty cool. i saw <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/15/everyone-send-me-5/" rel="nofollow">techcrunch</a> reccomending paypal hook up with billmonk to pay by phone, so that's good, eh? the more i think about it, making it so users can cross polinate currencies must have been super math tricky. it reminds me of the hubris that decided to undertake <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" rel="nofollow">unicode</a>. .. though i imagine a lot of the work you guys had to do was putting relatively whole pieces together i wonder what kinds of crazy complex tasks people will build on the backs of all these new giants? thankschuck! that’s pretty cool. i saw techcrunch reccomending paypal hook up with billmonk to pay by phone, so that’s good, eh?

the more i think about it, making it so users can cross polinate currencies must have been super math tricky. it reminds me of the hubris that decided to undertake unicode. .. though i imagine a lot of the work you guys had to do was putting relatively whole pieces together
i wonder what kinds of crazy complex tasks people will build on the backs of all these new giants?

]]> By: Chuck Groom http://www.openjournalmontreal.com/the-principles-of-a-start-up-part-4-of-opens-interview-with-billmonk/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Chuck Groom Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:18:21 +0000 http://open.touchbasic.com/journal/?p=265#comment-638 Thanks for this writeup, that's a very interesting take. I aspire to the hacker philosophy! To follow-through on the vein of thought regarding trust networks that span national boundaries, I just had to point out that BillMonk now (2/15/06) supports multiple currencies, making it easy for you to owe dollars, euros, won, etc, We're delighted to see people all over the world using our service, and also creating transactions outside their native currency. Thanks for this writeup, that’s a very interesting take. I aspire to the hacker philosophy!

To follow-through on the vein of thought regarding trust networks that span national boundaries, I just had to point out that BillMonk now (2/15/06) supports multiple currencies, making it easy for you to owe dollars, euros, won, etc, We’re delighted to see people all over the world using our service, and also creating transactions outside their native currency.

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