The early Pacific Andes business model--seed others' fishing fleets and then use a complex network of sourcing and transshipping (acting as middleman between catch boats and markets)--left it seemingly in cahoots with what amounts to ocean poaching.

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The Seed.com content-farm model, meanwhile, is currently only facilitating one aspect of freelance content production, which is advertising assignments and collecting copy.

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That planted the seed for what has become FXB's current model.

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