Re:Amazon Snowball
by miraswitch on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:08PM
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My startup is working on this problem. We are working on an IaaS cloud designed for high-bandwidth users, with much lower pricing than amazon.
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Careful. My previous startup was a storage company that competed with Amazon and Google when they were charging 0.10/gb and I calculated it should be around 0.02/gb. A few months after launch, they both realized it too and dropped their prices. Leads dried up overnight.
The high prices seem to persist until one day they don't.
Re:Amazon Snowball
by miraswitch on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:25PM
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Yea, we considered this - but if Amazon and Google compete with us I'll consider it a personal success :)
They compete against you whether they know you exist or not because your customers/prospects know Amazon/Google/etc exists.
It only takes one of the large players to break the pricing stalemate, and overnight they'll all follow to keep their position in the market.