Getting traffic for your newly launched startup

The weekend before New Years, my girlfriend and I were talking about her trouble renting a sewing machine in San Francisco. She had found a site that did general "rent anything", but decided against it for two main reasons: the the details made it inconvenient, and at $15/day, she could just as easily buy on Amazon for less than a hundred dollars.

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