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I think this part is really key to their analysis:

"First off, there are a ton of enabled small businesses competing in this space and I'm not sure there needs to be a middle man. For example, I get 4 ads from businesses in Seattle offering lessons for guitar on Google. Thus, they know how to market and get customers, they are offering free first lessons, and have availability. So I am unsure/doubt there is any real consumer problem."

The realization that this is not a big enough problem consumers are having.

I would guess that the musicians who want to sell their time would gladdly sign up to this platform. But the customers looking for these services, would most likely be very costly to reach.




The musicians already have a platform on which to find customers. It's Google.




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