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People try to replicate what worked elsewhere without asking themselves if there any differences between the businesses.

That's normally a red flag, for a banking business a mortal sin.

Re:Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:22AM (#20233813)
In Europe Uber is known as a cheaper and faster alternative to taxis
Re:Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want? on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @06:18PM (#20227924)
I'm just 26 but I heard countless tools ready to replace emails.

I have a B2B startup and only calling is most effective than emails. I don't see how Slack can replace them.

In my city (Milan, Italy) bike-sharing is an extremely common solution.

I feel like the business model is the main problem. Low margins high-costs (you frequently need to replace thousands of bikes) and basically no moat.

Every few years a new startup can enter the marketing with a better bike. The incumbents have to improve their or risk losing the entire market in a matter of weeks.

Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @05:57PM (#20227784)
the website name doesn't make it obvious, but they support 7 languages.

There's a little dropdown on the right of the big "Youglish" logo.

I tried it in Italian (my native language) and it works extremely well.