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More Marketplace Changes

by Sally Mitani & Tony McReynolds

posted 3/27/2009

In January Ben Falk opened Beagle Brain in the spot Ana Banana recently vacated in Nickels Arcade. Falk, one of those lithe, T-shirted, deceptively youthful-looking (he’s thirty-seven) technogeeks, thinks of it as primarily a computer repair shop with a price scheme tailored to student needs: free estimates and up-front flat fees rather than hourly rates. Also, he and his staff of three get their hands dirty: “We do a lot of hardware repairs that most places won’t do. We do soldering. A lot of places will tell you to switch out the

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