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Live by the sword die by the sword. A lot of small businesses got their start by leveraging the ubiquity of Amazon. Far cheaper than trying to roll your own se
by greyhair 6y ago
Live by the sword die by the sword.
A lot of small businesses got their start by leveraging the ubiquity of Amazon. Far cheaper than trying to roll your own services and also got a large set of eyes on their product.
Which is great until Amazon collects enough data to decide that it would be 'useful' to them to enter that same market.
So basically, you leverage Amazon to bootstrap your business, and Amazon uses your marketing experience and success to decide which markets to develop and enter.
- greyhair 6y agoIt makes me think of the small companies that completely outsource their hardware design and construction to Shenzhen, that are later shocked, shocked I tell you, to find the product on Alibaba for pennies on the dollar. Under about twelve different brand names.