A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? Turning a profit at a growing company is nearly impossible regardless of business model.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. The other stuff you’re talking about, to me – I still don’t understand the business model and the pain point. You obviously haven’t talked to people to identify it yet. Jared: Right.

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