[kanamekun]

"Meeting with local community leaders and the public to discuss the issues surrounding their service? That doesn't scale very well and is again ... messy, boring and hard."

In other words, a fantastic way to build barriers to entry and really lock up a new industry.

[vecinu]

A lot of folks don't want to acknowledge this fact but many businesses operate this way.

Most internet startups have low or no barriers to entry, so they can get an idea off the ground really quickly.