Profiting from the long tail

Posted on December 13, 2007
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Zipidee graph

We had the opportunity recently, to speak with Du Nguyen, VP of marketing at startup Zipidee. Zipidee’s business model is to profit from digital goods offered by ‘prosumers’ - content that makes up the ‘long tail’ in the digital marketplace.

Zipidee handles all the tiresome stuff - hosting, tracking transactions, collecting money et al. Early customers include a firm that distributes educational materials, a guy with a dance lessons site, motivational speakers who don’t want to deal with book and CD sales. Interesting concept, interesting market… Let’s see how it works out… 

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2 Responses to “Profiting from the long tail”

  1. Anonymous on December 13th, 2007 3:13 pm

    Funky startup names, motivational speakers, dance lessons. Leaders of the new economy unite.

  2. cg on December 14th, 2007 4:50 pm

    Heh…

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