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The Very Strange Story of the Startup That Says It Made $10m Before Launching

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 05, 2009

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Ben Behrouzi came from the shadowy Lead Generation business, but some people in that field said he played too dirty. Now he's got a real-time search engine that just came out of beta today, called Leapfish, and he says the company will already report $10 million in revenue this year despite having barely launched to the public.

This is a strange story, but no one said the path to the future wouldn't itself be strange. So consider suspending your disbelief so you can see what Leapfish has to offer.

Leapfish was at first a site for calculating the estimated value of domain names, then it became a patched-together meta-search engine that prioritized timeliness. Now it's a gorgeous, smartly planned real-time search service with an introductory video that can only be described as epic. The company has convinced businesses to pay hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for ye

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