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"either that nobody competent wants my market, or that the inefficiencies inherent to large organizations are larger than most people think." Interesting state
by scorpioxy 16y ago
"either that nobody competent wants my market, or that the inefficiencies inherent to large organizations are larger than most people think."
Interesting statement.
I'd also add that the know-how might be there, and the market might be there. But the effort to combine the two and actually start your own business is what probably trips most people up.
- lsc 16y agoeh, I know of plenty of people with all of those; they just prefer to focus on higher-margin markets. In a business like this, it's kind of a lot of effort to get to the point where you are no longer bleeding capital in to servers (and if you want to compete with me, you would have to buy your servers; none of this on-demand stuff. You could, in fact, get one of the amazon ec2 HVM domains and run paravirt xen out of that, but the costs of ec2 would destroy your margin.) If nothing else, Linode could crush me on price, if they wanted to. I think that it's probably more profitable for them to leave the low end to me and capture the next bracket up through superior features/support/etc... so it comes back to the 'nobody wants my market' statement.