{"id":1848,"date":"2013-02-27T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:18:41","slug":"unmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/27\/unmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startup finds niche in digitizing physical mail<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/26\/tech\/innovation\/outbox-mail-service\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/26\/tech\/innovation\/outbox-mail-service\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting idea, I can see some real value for it, particularly if you are highly mobile and don&#8217;t want your mail to get lost trying to keep up with you.  It was interesting how much the article talked about the woes of the US Post Office, I cover some of that <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/15\/political-destruction-of-the-us-post-office\/\">here<\/a>.  I particularly liked their (future) method of advertising; if I got extremely targeted ads I probably would take the time to look at them.  I have trained myself to ignore most ads as the vast majority of the time they are totally irrelevant to anything I am interested in.<\/p>\n<p>While this idea makes me a bit wistful in regards to thinking about it from an entrepreneurship standpoint, I don&#8217;t really feel jealous so much.  No doubt competition will spring up if this proves successful and that will drive the margins down to the bone.  I prefer to work in spaces where there are significant barriers to entry and thus higher margins.  Just the sort of guy I am, I guess, though as yet I have nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup finds niche in digitizing physical mail http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/26\/tech\/innovation\/outbox-mail-service\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5 An interesting idea, I can see some real value for it, particularly if you are highly mobile and don&#8217;t want your mail to get lost trying to keep up with you. It was interesting how much the article talked about the woes of the US Post Office, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/27\/unmail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unmail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}