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Ask HN: Should I try Lead Generation?

Hey HN, I'm posting this under a fake name because I'm kind of embarrassed to be asking this.Today learned about "leadgen" sites where you basically put up a form, get customer information, and then sell it to someone who needs that customer. Apparently its a huge business (for which there was even a conference in Vegas recently).By day, I work doing datamining / machine learning with Hadoop....

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