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nandemo on Aug 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Starbucks Chooses Square for Payments

Out of curiosity I looked up some of the earliest HN stories on Square, posted about 2 years ago:

Square http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970565 (0 comments)

Square Worth $40 Million Before Launch http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970880

Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971596

Square: All Hype and Little Value for Small Business http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148953

robbiemitchell on Aug 8, 2012 [–]

Ha. The last link (points to a FeeFighters blog post) has the hallmarks of a "next big thing"--namely, dismissed first as a "toy".

cf. http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...

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