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I've considered doing a VPN startup before; however, it seems that the market is pretty small and margins are low. Your customer base is basically: number of pe
by bobf 16y ago
I've considered doing a VPN startup before; however, it seems that the market is pretty small and margins are low. Your customer base is basically: number of people who are concerned about privacy AND frequently use insecure WiFi AND don't already have an existing VPN to use.
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- andreasklinger 16y agoI highly disagree. The only challenge is to become the dropbox of tunneling in simplicity and to brand it similar to Antivirus software. Be plain simple easy to use for anyone. Maybe even affiliate to Public Wifi Providers (and be baught by McAfee or alike)
- lsc 16y agofrom what I have seen (I provide VPS, not VPN, but some of my customers buy the VPS just so they can set up a VPN) what you are really providing is US internet. Bandwidth, cpu, etc... is all but free. your big costs would be handling the abuse desk. Now, depending on how efficiently you handle the abuse desk, your margins could be pretty good. On the other hand, your fee per user would have to be pretty low. The people who live in countries with restrictive firewalls tend to be /really/ cheap. but, if you can keep your abuse costs down, the cost of servicing a particular user is almost zero.
- bobf 16y agoI would have actually paid a small fee for that sort of service from a non-US based provider recently, to avoid MLB blackout restrictions on their online playoff coverage. (Except a free proxy in China was easy enough to find.)