The article made it seem as though sponsored product search results unique to just amazon and the other big players. Walmart does it - although not as well. Criteo has a product thats used by a lot of large online retailers that offers this as a service.
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Your product will probably still suck. But launching early and getting feedback from stakeholders will help you craft the product into something that doesn't.
"I would serve this as a challenge for the Lean Startup community. Especially the ones with the really audacious goals. Sometimes they start audacious because otherwise the product will never get to market. The Macintosh, that product had to exist in its entirety for people to wrap their heads around it,” he said, pointing to modern entrepreneurs like Elon Musk’s ventures as ones that can’t be done on a small scale at first. "You got to get the rocket into space."
A few points from my experience building a startup for the enterprise (these examples are based entirely on my experience in the financial services industry, although from what I understand they should be easy to extrapolate across other fields):
The sales cycle can be/is excruciatingly long. Certain companies that signed on took 1-2 years to get on board after initial engagement.
You need to partner up/find someone who has the deep contacts/relationships in the big cos that would be your clients.
You need to prove to them that it will be cheaper (including the cost of switching, training, etc...), Reduce Risk, and allow them to "reallocate resources."
Inertia is very strong at large organizations. Building a product that directly competes with an entrenched competitor sounds like a very risky endeavor.
There are other reasons why "binge drinking" appears to be higher in anglo countries (US, Britain, Canada, etc...). Especially among the upper middle class. Longer work weeks than the rest of the industrialized world, less vacation days, etc... Drinking age may play a role in our propensity towards binge drinking, but I think it also has a lot to do with our "work hard, play hard" mentality.
The size and scale of Meebo is always a suprise, but they have massive distribution. See the Meebo bar - http://www.meebo.com/websites/. They are on some heavily trafficked sites (tmz etc...) where they sell quite a few ads.
DealBurner has been my project for the last few weeks. Aggregates instant deals such as scoutmob, LivingSocial instant, Groupon Now, etc...
Sign up is super simple, just connect foursquare or facebook places. Then when you check into a place that has a deal you will get an SMS with redemption information.
