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Platforms that enable a diaspora of small businesses to operate as effectively as large organizations with minimal startup cost. Why build a massive services o

by cbetti 7y ago

Platforms that enable a diaspora of small businesses to operate as effectively as large organizations with minimal startup cost. Why build a massive services organization when you can enable and finance a takeover by a multitude of smaller players?

mtsr 7y ago
This is interesting. Do you have any examples in mind that achieve this? Whether in particular niches or solving common problems throughout small business?
- mackrevinack 7y ago
  the safe network is something that comes to mind. when / if its released the costs for setting up an online service will be peanuts compared to today. way cheaper storage, cheaper computing if your service needs it, and also less maintenance since you don't need to worry about securely storing data. it should all be handled by the network https://safenetwork.tech https://safenetwork.tech
- cbetti 7y ago
  I believe Quicken is behind the recent resurgence of independent mortgage lenders, which was a market all but captured by traditional banks until recently. Services like Rover seem to be displacing kennels for doggy daycare. They should consider micro-loans to their highest rated dog watchers for things like fences if they have not already.
- gnopgnip 7y ago
  Trinet SOI, wageworks
ananthrk 7y ago
AWS is a good example of this
hinkley 7y ago
We are on a treadmill, though. There are a set of differentiating features that larger companies can supply and any time the tools get good enough for that, the narrative shifts. Very much like fashion. For instance, everything has been Cloud Cloud Cloud for quite some time now and people are still scrambling to adapt to this forced march. 'The cloud' is building out a set of management tools that will ultimately help, I think, small companies transition to medium sized companies. But when those tools are good, people will probably also be migrating out of AWS and GCS into something else. At which point there will be some other set of tools or solutions that everyone else is copying.

by cbetti 7y ago

mtsr 7y ago

This is interesting. Do you have any examples in mind that achieve this? Whether in particular niches or solving common problems throughout small business?

mackrevinack 7y ago
the safe network is something that comes to mind. when / if its released the costs for setting up an online service will be peanuts compared to today. way cheaper storage, cheaper computing if your service needs it, and also less maintenance since you don't need to worry about securely storing data. it should all be handled by the network https://safenetwork.tech https://safenetwork.tech
cbetti 7y ago
I believe Quicken is behind the recent resurgence of independent mortgage lenders, which was a market all but captured by traditional banks until recently. Services like Rover seem to be displacing kennels for doggy daycare. They should consider micro-loans to their highest rated dog watchers for things like fences if they have not already.
gnopgnip 7y ago
Trinet SOI, wageworks

ananthrk 7y ago

AWS is a good example of this

hinkley 7y ago

We are on a treadmill, though. There are a set of differentiating features that larger companies can supply and any time the tools get good enough for that, the narrative shifts. Very much like fashion. For instance, everything has been Cloud Cloud Cloud for quite some time now and people are still scrambling to adapt to this forced march. 'The cloud' is building out a set of management tools that will ultimately help, I think, small companies transition to medium sized companies. But when those tools are good, people will probably also be migrating out of AWS and GCS into something else. At which point there will be some other set of tools or solutions that everyone else is copying.