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Inspiring, but it looks like the business failed sometime around 2013 for violating health code / zoning laws. Disappointing, as someone who likes the idea of leaving tech to run an ice cream shop.

I think this would be more work than it's worth. Legal overhead + the likelihood of the stock being worth anything for a low possibility of future revenue seems like a losing proposition.

They'd be better off focusing resources on their core competency and giving the cloud services away for free (up to a point). See the Microsoft BizSpark program for an example of this.

I'm starting s podcast to help with this problem. The idea is I pick 1 small business / industry a week, and do 5 interviews with different business owners from that industry, asking about their business, the problems they face, etc.

Do you think you'd listen to something like this?

Let's say, for the sake of argument, this is just a placebo effect. Does it really matter? If it provides a noticeable, reproducible result that improves someones life, who cares? Is it guaranteed to work for you? No, but there's no guarantee with a double blind tested, well researched method either.

It's giving up sugar, not ingesting plutonium. Worst case scenario you don't get the 'infomercial results', but it most likely will still improve your overall health

Simplicity. It's become such a behemoth that it can be a bit unwieldy for new users.

I understand this train of thought. But, when it comes down to write this algorithm on the whiteboard or build something small but non-trivial, I'd much rather do the latter.

As far as I know, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) doesn't have offices. At the very least, almost all of their workforce are remote workers.

Branding != logo.

Not that I'm defending BBT, but they're taped in front of a live audience, so it's not technically a laugh track.

This is great!

One note about your site's landing page: for the sections about each "engine" try leading with the engine's benefit to the user, and go into the highly technical jargon in the small print. I have a feeling your customers don't know what, "adaptive learning algorithm to locate and bridge cognitive gaps" means.

1. Contact the manufacturer of a product you're interested in

2. Ask if they are willing to dropship their products

3. If not, ask for a list of distributors

4. Contact distributors

5. Ask if they are willing to dropship

Rinse, repeat.