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Dwolla, The Tiny Iowa Company That's Trying To Kill Credit Cards, Makes All...
A few weeks ago we wrote about a tiny Iowa operation, Dwolla, that wants to kill credit cards completely.After giving up $55,000 per year in credit card fees when he was selling speakers, entrepreneur...
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This Hot Startup Has To Keep A 700-Name Spreadsheet To Manage All The...
(Before we write this post, we want to apologize to Ben Milne's assistant. We're about to make your life a little more hectic with VC inquiries. Sorry!)This morning we met with Ben Milne and Jordan...
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Dwolla, The Iowa Startup That's Killing Credit Cards, Is Now Killing ATMs
Dwolla is an Iowa-based payment network that gets rid of a lot of credit card pain points. In fact, the network doesn't use credit cards at all -- it links right to users' bank accounts and makes...
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INVESTORS GONE WILD: 13 Hot Startups That Created Funding Frenzies This Year
It was a good year to be a startup.VC's were scrambling to invest in a few big ideas, and money was (relatively) easy to come by.Here's a look at the startups that had investors scrambling to write...
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11 Rising Tech Stars To Watch In 2012
A few people in tech had amazing 2011s and they've started the new year with a bang.Some are working on incredibly innovative ideas and we expect their companies will continue to grow leaps and bounds...
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Dwolla Raises $5 Million From Union Square Ventures To Continue Building Its...
Credit card fees really add up. Ben Milne's business was losing $55,000 per year to them, so he created Dwolla to side step the charges altogether.Dwolla is a 17-person startup that is creating a...
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Dwolla Has A Secret Investor, And He's From Iowa
Based in Des Moines, Iowa, Dwolla is a lean startup that wants to kill credit cards. It's doing so well, it had investors squabbling over its latest round of financing.In the end, Union Square...
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10 Startups To Bet Your Career On
When you learned that Facebook's IPO would produce more than 1,000 millionaires, admit it — you were jealous.All of those employees hit the startup jackpot.Predicting which early stage startup will...
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Payment Platform Dwolla Comes To New York, Hires First 2 East Coast Employees
Dwolla, an Iowa-based payment startup that wants to get rid of credit card fees, has hired its first two New York City employees, Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld.Taub is Dwolla's business development...
View ArticleMUST WATCH: Brutally Honest Dwolla Founder Ben Milne Reveals How To Court...
Building a startup without having background in coding or a tech co-founder is a challenge.Dwolla founder Ben Milne tried to teach himself how to craft a website by doing what everyone solving a...
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Dwolla Founder: I Love Iowa, But If I Could Do It All Over Again, I Would...
Ben Milne is a proud Iowa resident. The CEO of a payment startup, Dwolla, he has said time and again he will always keep his company in the middle of America.But on stage last week at Startup 2012, he...
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The Death Of The Paper Check (INTU, EBAY, AMZN, GOOG)
The paper check's death began on September 11, 2001.At the time, money moved around the United States in what now seems a laughably inefficient manner: Banks trucked paper checks to central processing...
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This 18-Slide Pitch Just Landed Payment Startup Dwolla $16.5 Million
Dwolla, a startup that makes it easy and cheap for businesses to collect payments, just raised a $16.5 million Series C round. The company charges $0.25 per transaction, not a percentage like credit...
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This CEO Mistook The Paper Money In His Pocket For A Burrito Wrapper Because...
Ben Milne is CEO of Iowa-based payments company Dwolla and he barely carries cash anymore.Dwolla works by charging a simple $0.25 fee for sending money to someone. Transfers under $10 are free."I...
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A Company Innovating The Way We Pay For Stuff Ditched Bitcoin And...
Iowa-based startup Dwolla has made a name for itself with its rather painless approach to sending money over the Internet — sending someone $10 or less is free. Sending more than $10 costs $0.25....
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The Quest To Kill Cash: How Peer-To-Peer Payments Apps Are Improving The Way...
Using mobile devices to make peer-to-peer payments may not be a widely used service — yet. But they're poised to take off phenomenally. The service may even pave the way for using your smartphone to...
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Payment Apps Are Quickly Changing How We Transfer Money To Each Other, And...
A new generation of apps is introducing millions of consumers to the idea of using their phones as payment tools. This is especially true in the context of peer-to-peer payment transactions. These...
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A New Kind Of Payments App Could Solve A Whole Bunch Of Problems With The...
Phones could become the way people split their restaurant bills and pay their roommates for rent.New peer-to-peer payments apps like Venmo, M-Pesa, Square Cash, and a whole host of others are...
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A New Crop Of Apps Could Finally Convert People To Mobile Payments
There's a new crop of apps that may finally kill cash and checks by giving people a way to pay one another easily through their phones. You enter your bank account number into the app once and then can...
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The Quest To Kill Cash: New Apps Are Finally Getting People To Abandon The ATM
Credit and debit cards have already gone a long way to getting people off of cash and checks.But there is one type of payment that still requires a trip to the ATM or a desperate hunt for the...
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