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There is no possibility to ramp up a new technology from slow to fast. You must go fast and huge out of the gate, or else AWS will drop in after 6 months and ta
by taurath 7y ago
There is no possibility to ramp up a new technology from slow to fast. You must go fast and huge out of the gate, or else AWS will drop in after 6 months and take most of your addressable market before you've even got off the ground. You're too slow when Amazon will put a team of 40 against your 5 person startup. And unlike Google/Hooli, they have a good chance of not screwing it up.
Almost every one of the vendors at the AWS reinvent expo this year that have an "advantage" in AI, data insights, etc, will be competing with an AWS service by next year. Snowflake, Datadog, Splunk, etc. All the innovation in the room gets sucked up by the big company and offered at scale. The best you can hope for is to have a better UX and a brand that people will demand.
The ones who will need to worry less are the ones who already have contracts with enterprise businesses. Relationship rather than technology companies.
- deanCommie 7y ago> You're too slow when Amazon will put a team of 40 against your 5 person startup. That part is not true. Amazon/AWS bootstraps new products much as a startup would - with teams of 5-10 max. I acknowledge the difference in runway availability and radically different risk of failure. But the actual dev teams are small.