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Re:What do you think of my startup idea? by rms on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @07:43PM (#59615)
It made sense to me. It's a great idea but implementation is going to be incredibly challenging. It's only doomed if the founders don't have the skills to actually implement a better recommendation everything.

I think an uber-short pitch here is "A better recommendation engine for everything" which of course only makes sense if you know what a recommendation engine is.

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Re:What do you think of my startup idea? by sbraford on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @07:53PM (#60063)
Even if you built the most perfect possible recommendation engine, it still wouldn't matter unless you were able to build a large enough user base who was actually using it.

Re: ability to get recommendation engines working better, see the Netflix $1M competition as an example of just how hard it is.

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