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I can’t compete with those online prices or their distribution.” And so, Whilma who owns the restaurant, and her husband moved their family from the Philippines to Searcy, Arkansas. So, we did a return to all [inaudible] a few weeks before we just launched season four, which is in Searcy, Arkansas.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

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As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” And then, the second piece is really that fragmentation is our friend.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” And then, the second piece is really that fragmentation is our friend.

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