This is something else I want to write about. Starting a really different service is a lot harder to sell, and I knew going in that selling is what I am worst

This is something else I want to write about. Starting a really different service is a lot harder to sell, and I knew going in that selling is what I am worst at. Also, when I started, most of the competition was using UML or OpenVZ. Xen was unquestionably superior to those technologies for multi tenant systems, so one could argue that this market wasn't as crowded in 2005 Of course, I was big into the idea of a commodity product. Like I said, competing as a commodity requires less marketing skill. Instead of talking someone into trying something new, you start with something they already are using and then just point out the advantages of your implementation, which can be as simple as the blog I posted in the other comment.