limitup - 4:30 pm on Nov 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

I still don't get it. I can go to any decent yellow pages site and get all the same info that TL provides, sometimes more. You say your angle is data. Are you saying that eventually your goal is for TL to have more data on more local businesses than established yellow page sites? Is that really possible? I find it hard to believe.

You said the little guys innovating right now at a very fast pace. Without giving away any trade secrets, can you give me an example of what you mean? You must mean in relation to data collection?

Obviously if you can get every mom and pop shop to provide with you "extra" info about their business and post it on their own little page, that's great. But it seems one would need to get a majority of them setup to make really useful, and how realistic is that?

Your final comment about the grad students is certainly true in a lot of cases. But what is the huge "problem" you face? Is gathering data on local businesses THAT hard?

[edited by: limitup at 4:38 pm (utc) on Nov. 30, 2005]