What he did not bother to mention is that no business model is any good at all without customers.

他不屑提及的是，如果没有用户任何一种商业模式都将一事无成。

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Every organization needs customers. Without customers, most organizations would cease to exist.

每个组织都需要顾客，没有顾客，所有的组织都将不会存在。

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Senator Olympia Snowe criticized the executives for taking government aid and then leaving customers and dealers without any support.

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Health insurers fear that if the mandate is struck down but the rest of the law survives, they would be forced to accept millions more sick customers without enough new healthy customers to balance out the risk pool.

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Without paying customers or competition to harry them, public-sector workforces are often producer-oriented and conservative.

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The technology could also allow them to read power and water meters without entering customers' premises.

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