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Is the Long Tail Getting the Short End of the Stick?

By Kurt Cagle
July 5, 2008 | Comments: 8

Is the Long Tail Getting the Short End of the Stick?

The idea has gone from statistical curiosity to a deeply entrenched belief - especially in Silicon Valley: We are moving toward an economic state where it no longer becomes necessary to invest just in the top 1% of all ideas, but that instead an investor could create strategies using the web to take advantage of the statistical long tail - small niche markets (perhaps only one consumer deep) that in the aggregate can prove more lucrative than the blockbuster.

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