Re:Startup Founder On Google Entering Their Market
by patio11 on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @09:24PM
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The real money is scaring TMobile et al that "This is the SMS of 2009. Your customers are going to leave your cell phone and start taking calls on Google Voice if you do not have this feature. That will cost you billions.
We have a solution. You can bill them $3 a month for it, added onto their bill. They will pay it because they value their relationship with you (hah) and they don't want to have to change phone numbers just to save $3 a month.
We'll license our technology to you for a cut of that $3 plus a piddling few million a year. If you double the cut and guarantee a minimum of $STUPID_MONEY per year, we'll even agree to avoid licensing this technology to any other American cell provider, for as long as you maintain a growth rate of STUPID_RATE%."
We have a solution. You can bill them $3 a month for it, added onto their bill. They will pay it because they value their relationship with you (hah) and they don't want to have to change phone numbers just to save $3 a month.
We'll license our technology to you for a cut of that $3 plus a piddling few million a year. If you double the cut and guarantee a minimum of $STUPID_MONEY per year, we'll even agree to avoid licensing this technology to any other American cell provider, for as long as you maintain a growth rate of STUPID_RATE%."