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It's difficult to develop products without understanding customer needs, and it's difficult to understand customer needs without a variety of customers. That's
by mariodiana 3y ago
It's difficult to develop products without understanding customer needs, and it's difficult to understand customer needs without a variety of customers. That's the problem their business model is it solving.
- zdw 3y agoThis sounds like they're going to be collecting a large amount of data from a huge variety of small businesses that all operate in different ways and have very different clientele. I wonder how practically useful all of this data collection is going to be, and whether doing it will be accurate and result in insight. Learning about small niches where modest profit can be made (which is where many small businesses tend to fit, IMO) is not the typical/theoretical "scale to the heavens" startup plan, but if just getting ideas is the goal... good luck?
- birdyrooster 3y agoIt's a boondoggle.
- gopher_space 3y agoThe people doing real estate forecasts want actual numbers to crunch and would enumerate the fleas on your dog and rank sort its name on the date of sale if you let them. They think confounding variables are for quitters.