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Post by am on Aug 5, 2015 12:52:18 GMT
Should investUP have their own board here?
And why is the domain name investup.co (Columbia) rather than investup.co.uk (UK company)?
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Post by domUP on Aug 5, 2015 13:02:40 GMT
I'm getting the distinct feeling I've been leap-frogged. I joined the exclusive waiting list for the world's only crowdfunding supermarket on the 30th May, and still haven't been accepted.....sound of disgruntled muttering..... PM dominvestup your email address and he might be able to bump it. Something does seem to have got stuck as my invite only came through yesterday (with a push) whereas a family member got there's about an hour after registering, at least 500 places after me. Not much on the site anyway, couple of REBS loans, a TC & Archover, no sign of anything from FC, SS or AC all of which are listed as available platforms, 2 of which definately have available loans. Havent taken a full look but not seen anything that prompts me to invest here rather than on seperate platforms as yet. Early days though. Sure - anyone who wants access and has signed UP please PM me your email address. Sorry for the waiting list (being removed next week I promise). Il Moro - good insight there. There is a tab under search (New - Resale) which lists all the 'resale' deals from Assetz Capital and SS. If you do not select resale only 'new' pitches are listed and these are fewer in number. We will make this tab more prominent and easier to find. Best as always, Dom
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Post by nickthefool on Aug 5, 2015 13:03:55 GMT
Should investUP have their own board here? And why is the domain name investup.co (Columbia) rather than investup.co.uk (UK company)? I believe .co is a generic ending, rather than country-specific. A (British) friend had a .co website a couple of years ago, at the time I figured it was basically .com for hipsters  Having said that, wikipedia syas it's colombia, so go figure.
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Post by Steerpike on Aug 5, 2015 13:18:36 GMT
I'm getting the distinct feeling I've been leap-frogged. I joined the exclusive waiting list for the world's only crowdfunding supermarket on the 30th May, and still haven't been accepted.....sound of disgruntled muttering..... Yes, me too, I signed up so long ago I had forgotten until my recent application was rejected because I was already on the list, however, based on recent comments here there seems no reason to hurry anyway.
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 5, 2015 13:20:27 GMT
PM dominvestup your email address and he might be able to bump it. Something does seem to have got stuck as my invite only came through yesterday (with a push) whereas a family member got there's about an hour after registering, at least 500 places after me. Not much on the site anyway, couple of REBS loans, a TC & Archover, no sign of anything from FC, SS or AC all of which are listed as available platforms, 2 of which definately have available loans. Havent taken a full look but not seen anything that prompts me to invest here rather than on seperate platforms as yet. Early days though. Sure - anyone who wants access and has signed UP please PM me your email address. Sorry for the waiting list (being removed next week I promise). Il Moro - good insight there. There is a tab under search (New - Resale) which lists all the 'resale' deals from Assetz Capital and SS. If you do not select resale only 'new' pitches are listed and these are fewer in number. We will make this tab more prominent and easier to find. Best as always, Dom Thanks. Ive just found it. Definately needs making much more obvious. Ive been on the site several times completely oblivious to these 'secondary loans' Read a post on other board of its existence & still failed to find it.
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Post by am on Aug 5, 2015 13:43:24 GMT
Should investUP have their own board here? And why is the domain name investup.co (Columbia) rather than investup.co.uk (UK company)? I believe .co is a generic ending, rather than country-specific. A (British) friend had a .co website a couple of years ago, at the time I figured it was basically .com for hipsters Having said that, wikipedia syas it's colombia, so go figure. .tv is Tuvalu (marketed as television) and .tm is Turkmenistan (marketed as trademark). I can understand why those were semi-formally repurposed (there's an obvious market, and it's a nice little earner for the country), but Colombia is a country with a bigger economy and national internet presence, and the advantage of .co over .com, or the various national equivalents is unclear - as you say it's effectively .com for hipsters. Other hijackings of country domains include the redirect services bit.ly (Libya) and youtu.be (Belgium).
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Post by ilmoro on Aug 5, 2015 13:57:45 GMT
domUP How does the resale list work? There are at least 2 AC loans showing avaliability which have no avaliability though the AC platform itself and more bizarrely another 2 that are available that have been repaid last week! How is the list kept up to date?
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Post by am on Aug 5, 2015 14:16:53 GMT
domUP How does the resale list work? There are at least 2 AC loans showing avaliability which have no avaliability though the AC platform itself and more bizarrely another 2 that are available that have been repaid last week! How is the list kept up to date? Over on the AC board Chris has said that no API has so far (target Q4 2015) been provided to aggregators yet, and linkage is done manually or by screen scraping. That might explain the lag.
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Post by am on Aug 5, 2015 14:21:10 GMT
I believe .co is a generic ending, rather than country-specific. A (British) friend had a .co website a couple of years ago, at the time I figured it was basically .com for hipsters Having said that, wikipedia syas it's colombia, so go figure. .tv is Tuvalu (marketed as television) and .tm is Turkmenistan (marketed as trademark). I can understand why those were semi-formally repurposed (there's an obvious market, and it's a nice little earner for the country), but Colombia is a country with a bigger economy and national internet presence, and the advantage of .co over .com, or the various national equivalents is unclear - as you say it's effectively .com for hipsters. Other hijackings of country domains include the redirect services bit.ly (Libya) and youtu.be (Belgium). I see I had forgotten .to (Tonga, marketed as "to"), and that there are others (.me, .am, .fm, .dj, .cd) that I wasn't properly aware of. See the WikiPedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack for more information on TLD tricks.
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Post by domUP on Aug 5, 2015 14:27:15 GMT
domUP How does the resale list work? There are at least 2 AC loans showing avaliability which have no avaliability though the AC platform itself and more bizarrely another 2 that are available that have been repaid last week! How is the list kept up to date? Hi Il Moro, I’m checking this out right now. The deals are currently updated by hand. APIs are being built currently being built which will help this - there are three coming online over the next few weeks. It's brand new, raw and will only get better I promise! Best, Dom
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Post by coop on Aug 5, 2015 15:52:14 GMT
I believe .co is a generic ending, rather than country-specific. A (British) friend had a .co website a couple of years ago, at the time I figured it was basically .com for hipsters Having said that, wikipedia syas it's colombia, so go figure. .tv is Tuvalu (marketed as television) and .tm is Turkmenistan (marketed as trademark). I can understand why those were semi-formally repurposed (there's an obvious market, and it's a nice little earner for the country), but Colombia is a country with a bigger economy and national internet presence, and the advantage of .co over .com, or the various national equivalents is unclear - as you say it's effectively .com for hipsters. Other hijackings of country domains include the redirect services bit.ly (Libya) and youtu.be (Belgium). Reminds me of hipster-baiting comedy Nathan Barley; in which the protagonist has his website registered in the cook islands so it says .co.ck www.trashbat.co.ck if I remember rightly!
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Post by Ton ⓉⓞⓃ on Aug 5, 2015 17:00:31 GMT
Can I ask domUP which p2p sites have given their express permission for you to sell their loans? |
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Post by domUP on Aug 5, 2015 17:14:57 GMT
Of course you may Ton. We only show deals with sites which have given us expressed permission to work with them. For an example of some of the sites we work with i've linked in one of our press releases: www.investup.co/news/UP-adds-5-new-sites/We are hoping to add to the collection over the next few months. Hope this helps. Dom |
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Post by domUP on Aug 5, 2015 17:17:59 GMT
Sure - anyone who wants access and has signed UP please PM me your email address. Sorry for the waiting list (being removed next week I promise). Il Moro - good insight there. There is a tab under search (New - Resale) which lists all the 'resale' deals from Assetz Capital and SS. If you do not select resale only 'new' pitches are listed and these are fewer in number. We will make this tab more prominent and easier to find. Best as always, Dom Thanks. Ive just found it. Definately needs making much more obvious. Ive been on the site several times completely oblivious to these 'secondary loans' Read a post on other board of its existence & still failed to find it. Hi il Moro, This has now been updated on the site to be more prominent - thanks again for your feedback. It's amazingly useful. Best, Dom Attachments:
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Post by webwiz on Aug 5, 2015 17:34:30 GMT
As long as the loan updating is manual the problem I see is that loans that sell out very quickly, eg SS and MT, may be gone before they even appear on this site. Unless of course the other platform releases them to investUp early.
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