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by evbart 5680 days ago
REALLY like that saying about 50% problem 50% distribution.

I think you hit it spot on. I see Groupon, yelp, foursquare, all as going after the local space. Some people saw it as a tech problem, some people just looked at it as a distribution problem.

GroupOn found the low tech extremely scalable solution, and is reaping the benefits.

Companies like Foursquare are probably a couple of years away from having enough businesses do self service on their tech solution...