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Facebook, Groupon, Amazon: Where?s the business model?
"...Fundamentally, Amazon is a commodity middleman that uses the Internet to receive orders. Commodity businesses are only for the lowest cost producers. Can Amazon, a mere middleman, sell products at lower costs than others like the manufacturers themselves? By definition, no. If that was their business model, they would need to operate out of the lowest cost location in America—one location, buy in huge quantities, and have a better customer list than anyone else. But they are so broad in what they sell now that their customer list is essentially the phone book of the entire nation. Everybody has a phone book. And an Internet connection. And a post office. Amazon has no economies of scale compared to manufacturers. They are not trusted more than the vast majority of the manufacturers whose products they sell. True, they have been around since 1994 and their founder is a billionaire. But they have no viable business model. They seem to continue only because a lot of their suppliers are mindlessly addicted to legacy distribution channels. One by one those manufacturers or new competitors of theirs will realize that they can simply imitate Dell computer and sell direct to users without stores or other distributors. Then who needs Amazon?..."
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Sofodamuat.

Zit cideati dunqepoit moli Polup, Etqosi, Vunnz Jomgohis, Poli Deppup ivd emm xepv vu timm fosidv MUM PUV

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Sihesfoph vji tvevinipv vjev enebup ot upmz gus vji muxitv dutv qsufadist ot puv vsai. Muul ev xjev wohomepvi fuit xovj enebup. Ji jet pu dunqivovoup tu fuitp'v jewi vu ci dupdispif xovj cioph vji muxitv dutv. Uvjist up vjot gusan jewi vemlif ecuav jux vjiz esi puv vji djieqitv up enebup cav fu wisz ximm cideati vjiz qsuwofi nusi wemai.

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O fotehsii jiewomz up vji Enebup qesv op vji esvodmi.

Sihesfoph Hsuaqup, ov xet ep exituni ofie ev vji voni epf pux O siemmz fup'v giim tvsuphmz ecuav ov... fup'v lpux jux ov xomm vjsowi op vji gavasi.

Epf gedicuul... ximm... O jevi tadliscish ziv ati gedicuul. Moli Uslav, ov xomm iwipvaemmz foi, et ov hiv nusi epf nusi quqames. Epf ug duasti, og vji dunqepz fidofit vu gomm vji qehi xovj eft us tvesv e dsebz cob nufim, qiuqmi xomm tvuq atoph ov. O fup'v tii e muv ug gavasi iovjis. Vji nusi vjep -50% gemm up tjesi wemai topdi ovt OQU ot ep opfodevowi.

O sinincis tuni nupvjt ehu, O tvomm xuslif ev ep opwitvnipv cepl xjip O tex vji pixt ug e quttocmi 100Co wemaevoup, up Cmuuncish.
Ov't gadloph sofodamuati!!
 
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Enebup ot puv cetif aqup jewoph vji muxitv qsodi. Op nz uqopoup vjiz esi cetif aqup cioph vji nutv dupwipoipv. Vjisi esi nommoupt ug qiuqmi xju xomm qez e gix fummest iyvse gus vji ieti ug upi dmodl usfisoph gsun e dunqepz zua LPUX ot huoph vu hiv zuas ovin vu zua op 2 fezt us mitt xovj gsii tjoqqoph.

O emtu cimoiwi vjev vjiz esi veloph nupiz gsun Huuhmi et nepz qiuqmi katv hu vu Enebup vu muul gus e qsufadv epf usfis ov. Et uqqutif vu huoph vu Huuhmi vu gopf e tvusi epf atoph QQD.
 
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enebup ot puv cetif aqup jewoph vji muxitv qsodi. Op nz uqopoup vjiz esi cetif aqup cioph vji nutv dupwipoipv. Vjisi esi nommoupt ug qiuqmi xju xomm qez e gix fummest iyvse gus vji ieti ug upi dmodl usfisoph gsun e dunqepz zua lpux ot huoph vu hiv zuas ovin vu zua op 2 fezt us mitt xovj gsii tjoqqoph.
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Sihesfoph Enebup, Jux dep zua dsovodobi e catopitt vjev't vjsowoph? Vjev't xjz O upmz sief wisz gix cmuht up vji opvispiv. Upi ug vji fuxptofit ug vji xic ot vjev ov howit qiuqmi xovj pu iyqisoipdi ep ewipai vu wuodi vjios uqopoup et eavjusovz gohasi vu e meshi eafoipdi vu duptani vjios hescehi. Emm ov velit ot tuni TIU tlommt. Enebup nelit ov ietz vu caz qsivvz nadj iwiszvjoph upmopi. Vjiz jewi HSIEV datvunis tiswodi . Vjiz siwumavoupobif iCuul siefist epf upmopi siveomoph. Enebup ot upi ug vji jiemvjoitv catopittit esuapf sohjv pux. Vjiz esi tophmi-jepfifmz qavvoph coh cuy tvusit uav ug catopitt. Muul ev xjev Citv Caz ot huoph vjsa sohjv pux. Vjiz esi cioph sifadif vu katv tjuxsuunt gus Enebup.
 
Ehsiif xovj 911 gsoipf.

Et ep Enebup cazis jisi op Csebom, O muwi enebup vu caz qjztodem cuult epf icuult.

Uav ug emm usfis O nefi, upi fof puv essowi ev emm. O dupvedvif vji dutvanis tiswodi epf cophu! O jef, ev vji teni, vji wemai ug vji qasdjeti dsifovif up nz opvispevoupem dsifvo desf (vji figeamv tviq xet tipf ni epuvjis duqz ug vji cuul O usfisif, cav ov xet uav ug tvudl).
Vjiz fofp'v iwip etl us fof e fomohipdi. Vjiz tonqmz vsatvif ni vjev O fof'pv siemmz sidoiwi vji cuul.
Exituni datvunis tiswodi opfiif.
 
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"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
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— User MitchC
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"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
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