Andy Ciordia

"The bruha-ha cracks me up. An evolving form of spirits sounds right fine by me. If I can get a fantastic flavor to savor without having to spend a huge amount isn't that what we're after? When we went from animal skins to wooden barrels I wonder did people go--"NAY I Need my Sheep Skin!" heheh. There will always be variants to be had. Some may be gained from ancient woods or smoked peats or or or.. I welcome all the variants, lets just stay honest about it. At the end of the day its the quality we perceive and enjoy." - Andy Ciordia

"It's a tough.. tough.. tough row. Good job on putting it out there, keeping the initial momentum and trying to break through to numbers that will float you. I've been trying to find the pulse of it for years now and it's a slippery beast that bites as much as purrs. ;)" - Andy Ciordia

"Good tips on some potential touchy industries. Don't forget the Legal field. It's fraught with landmines of ethics and board rules." - Andy Ciordia

"tl;dr I'm sorry. You lost me when you began to know me. I'm glad you will not denigrate us with further poor behavior." - Andy Ciordia

"I've been in technology for 25 years. A part of 5 start ups so when it comes to how early tech often operates I'd call myself well acquainted. Your trolling skills however are weak and your contribution to the thread truly banal. When you jump into someone else's opinion and call it tripe please reread what you're about to post since it probably lacks much coherence and adds much vitriol. As to the success or failure of Coin, unless you show your psychic credentials or history of calling probabilities lets hold the verdict until we're there. They may have lost you but you don't speak for everyone." - Andy Ciordia

"Can you give citation? As a merchant what I've read is responsibility for fraud will shift to me if I don't upgrade our terminals but no where have I read a percentage must shift or involuntarily shift before 2017." - Andy Ciordia

"Quantify the list of half truths. Slipped deadline and poor form for handling delayed roll out? It's not like there's a litany. As to Emv cards we've all known what's coming but prime roll out afaik won't even start till late 2015 and if you think everyone, every merchant is going to jump on it you're way overestimating consumers caring. Retailers will care first but will require tech upgrades once they do. Broad adoption in the US is probably 2017. My 9 cards I have to carry for personal and 2 small business have no emv currently and nearly all were just refreshed." - Andy Ciordia

"East coaster here so no chance at being a part of the early 1k. I don't know if I was a part of the 10k or the extended 15k. Quick on the uptake when COINs site was launched but that's all." - Andy Ciordia

"In that case its just a deliverability slide without enough communication or exit option apology. It's not like they closed shop and became expats with 30k orders worth of $$. When I signed up, and I am a part of the beta, I was thinking that I was helping them build & bankroll something--deliverability on time would have been great but being in technology for 25 years deliverable slide is the nature of the beast. It's not desired, it's not sought after, but it happens, and happens 98% of the time. Regardless I understand general angst at not getting something when someone wants it but the vitriol which existed here is along the lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?..." - Andy Ciordia

"Phew, still molten over here. I guess we learned a valuable lesson here. Be communicative or the trolls will come out and eat your young. It's a tough dance doing a backer related product release. Kickstarter has had to add a whole new level of proofing before letting vaporware into their system. At the end of the day its all a gamble and we're sharing the risk, if you don't like the risk then don't gamble. Even sure bets aren't 100%. If theres anything I've learned this year its even if you have everything in order you can still go down in a flaming ball of visceral fire. Keyboards to hide, Individual faces, haters gonna hate, pimpin ain't easy. Good luck with your continued development and releases. ;-)" - Andy Ciordia

"You know why I love class action lawsuits? Because 80% of the settlements go to lawyers. If you have a problem sue them yourself." - Andy Ciordia

"With chip cards rolling out in October and retailers being on the hook for fraudulent swipe cards after that, will we even want a swipe card past 2015?" - Andy Ciordia

"I haven't read anything on the feature set being gimped. Do you have a source on what's missing?" - Andy Ciordia

"That actually happens all the time. Contractors overrun and deliverabilties slide. Go build a house and watch the fun." - Andy Ciordia

"Wow. You're making me drool. One thing I've wanted in reports and maybe this will allow for is ancillary data not a part of Raven. I collate some details and make my own images and have to use Acrobat to wedge me info into your info. It'd be nice to allow for a page or whatever the new concepts will be to upload our own documents/pdf/jpg/png something. Hate doing the run around. Regardless, kudos on this. Can't wait to get my hands on it." - Andy Ciordia

"This is an awesome trip down memory lane. My father drove us all around the southeast and old videos of Bob Hope on a bungie-corded early VHS player (today you'd think of it as a land bridge) in the back of the van, a cassette book of Time Life's Decades to educate us musically, a solid supply of 8-Track hits, and the CBR for being a road warrior. We watched for smoky, we talked to truckers about incidents, and more. I'll have to speak to my dad if he had a handle--as a Doctor he often found himself a roadside medic and helped out when he had to and I have the feeling he was one of the classic 'Docs' on the air. Meanwhile I was Snakeeyes for my love of GI Joe, haha. :D Anyhow, this was a fun trip to engage my own memories and I'm glad you shared yours!" - Andy Ciordia