“Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile,...” — Ryan Holmes Quote

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written.

I've never really had time to think about my thoughts. I've always had people around, my mobile phone... everything was so fast-paced.

I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!

Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.

I think the rise of A.I. is bigger than the rise of mobile. Large companies are sometimes as worried about startups as startups are about large companies. Ultimately, it will be about who delivers the best service or product.