Re:Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad D...
by biztos on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:59AM
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Interesting, I just had a look at nebenan[0] and I was pretty much expecting to see a Rocket Internet[1] logo. No such logo, but it was founded by one of Rocket's main cloners[2] so that seems to be the model here too. Nice that they're so subtle with the name.
An interesting twist is that they seem to be involved with senior-citizen organizations. Maybe older folks are more likely to get involved?
As much as I dislike this German cloning model, and find it sad as there's a lot of real creativity in Berlin, I think a service like this might stand a better chance in a country with strong laws around privacy and slander.
Re:Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad D...
by Semaphor on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:07AM
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The average age is certainly not low. I've seen a lot of people I'd guess are quite a bit above 40 or 50. Barely anyone significantly younger than me (33).
An interesting twist is that they seem to be involved with senior-citizen organizations. Maybe older folks are more likely to get involved?
As much as I dislike this German cloning model, and find it sad as there's a lot of real creativity in Berlin, I think a service like this might stand a better chance in a country with strong laws around privacy and slander.
[0]: https://nebenan.de/about (in German)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet#Controversy
[2]: https://www.ksta.de/wirtschaft/nebenan-de-und-wirnachbarn-co...
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