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Fifteen years in the home-improvement business taught Matt Fineberg that no one pulls the trigger on a big-ticket project—such as a new roof or windows—without first getting a handful of estimates.
When he began building his Philadelphia-based estimate marketplace, Bestimators, in 2013, Fineberg thought he knew what his potential customers needed, and how to deliver it. "I heard "I need to get a few more estimates' daily for the better part of a decade, so I hired a contractor to build out a product to help homeowners do just that," he says.
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