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No. You beat them where they can't beat you (the PG way): you do stuff that's not scalable. Off the top of my head: - Amazing customer support - Price
by dvt 9y ago
No. You beat them where they can't beat you (the PG way): you do stuff that's not scalable. Off the top of my head:
- Amazing customer support
- Price undercutting (at a loss) for your first N customers
- Free "softs" like monitoring, load-balancing, etc.
- Make it a managed service for your first N customers
- Urgently implement features requested by your first N customers
- znpy 9y ago> - Price undercutting (at a loss) for your first N customers Amazon is known to sell at loss in order to drive adoption or even hurt competitors. There is so much you can sell at loss, but Amazon can beat the crap out of it and sell much more at much higher losses and still be profitable in the aftermath. I'd say, starting a price war against amazon is quite a dumb idea, if you are a lot smaller player.
- dvt 9y agoI was just listing things that one could do, I'm not sure what the best strategy would be vs. Amazon.