Like any other business, newspapers have to balance their needs with the needs of their customers -- the readers they need to keep.

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It's like you want passion for technology but you need passion for customers, and you got to get kind of the Yin and Yang.

就像你想要对技术的热情,但是却需要对消费者的热情，这又有点像阴阳之间的抉择。

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So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

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