In the last several months, EatWith has received thousands of applications from hopeful cooks, who range from kitchen dabblers to professionally trained chefs.
Despite its high-tech facade, Idealab is something of a throwback to an age when entrepreneurs were dabblers and practically everything depended on one man's ability to keep inventing new ideas.
Content providers do not like payments for microtransactions either, because they punish avid users, nickel-and-diming them to death, while rewarding dabblers by giving them what they want at low cost.