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Re:Powa: The startup that fell to earth by edent on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:21AM (#11328204)
Yup - same here. The whole product was just... meh. If it had been backed by a market leader or (shudder) a consortium, it might have had a chance of success.

But a new entrant trying to sign up merchants individually?

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Re:Powa: The startup that fell to earth by madaxe_again on Monday March 21, 2016 @11:05AM (#11328542)
They weren't interested in working with platforms either - they were actually actively offensive when we contacted them. Probably something to do with Wagner's background at Venda, a platform provider he founded.

Their users group call themselves "the prisoners of Venda"!

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Re:Powa: The startup that fell to earth by astrange on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:54PM (#11329458)
Might as well go for the pun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda

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