- Startups – SendGrid Startup of the Week #5 – Nate Stewart of ZingCheckout

0:38: Welcome to Startup of the Week! SendGrid ad 3:25: What is ZingCheckout? 4:15: How is this different from Square? 5:25: Why did Square go native app? Snobbery of Silicon Valley elite or strategic decision to drive iPad sales and have better user experience? 6:38: Are you aiming at mid-size companies, large companies? 7:35: What’s it like going up against Square, now a multi-billion-dollar company? What is that like as an entrepreneur? Too herculean to convince investors, get employees? 9:15: What about the price difference? How does this compare on price basis to something like Square or traditional POS? 9:45: What do they charge per month, a traditional POS? 10:20: When you try to get larger location to adopt, how do they react to price? 11:25: How important is reporting in all of this? How hard is it do reporting in traditional POS? 12:30: You are in Austin now, started in Los Angeles — further and further away from the Valley. What is the thinking there? 14:30: 176 followers on AngelList and a lot of positive comments. Nolan Bushnell as advisor. How has AngelList process been for you guys? 15:40: You have Nolan and [ Nimble founder ] Jon Ferrara as advisors. Jason notes he invested in Nimble. How does a 29-year-old, first-time entrepreneur land such advisors? [ Nate says Ferrara is only a reference; he saw product at SXSW ] 17:15: How do you land a high-end advisor, how does it work? 19:15: What’s next? Panic out there with Facebook and Zynga crashing


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