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I'm getting pretty frustrated with having to track tiny pieces of paper for expense reports, and, personally, I hate that even if I tell the clerk I don't want a receipt, it still prints off just for them to throw it away and kill some trees.

Is there a reason why terrible little pieces of paper with disappearing ink are still necessary to transacting business?

I appreciate that merchant services like Square are doing something about this. However, as a consumer, I have no control over which merchants care to implement it. Also, there has to be a better, more automatic identifier we can assign that will send a receipt without having to enter an email address every single time. What if it were possible to send a receipt automatically by scanning a QR code on the back of the credit card, or maybe in a phone app, or both? What if it were just a sticker you could attach to anything to be scanned at the register?

I'm sure the technical challenges (and maybe regulatory?) to solving this problem are enormous, but it's so, so frustrating to me that I'd be willing to find out how to make it happen.

It's been about 5 or 6 months (unbelievably) since I moved on as a startup founder. I've found that the pace of life in a semi-normal non-tech, non-startup job is quite slower and less stressful. I also find that I'm afraid to embrace it, even though I think it's done me good. A big part may be the move from the "big city" back to rural/suburban life.

How have you coped with the transition from the frenetic pace of startups to normal life? How do you keep your startup chops up? (because, you know, who knows...)

I'm curious to hear the experiences of companies that have sponsored, or people who have been sponsored for Dev Bootcamp, The Starter League or the like.<p>Do you think it was worth it? Was it a success? Do you think it would've been a better experience if you were not sponsored?