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Re:Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups by ryanjshaw on Friday September 12, 2014 @11:43AM (#8308640)
OK how about they give away $95k of credit and spend the $5k difference on due diligence? Now obviously to some extent I'm being facetious as of course the economics don't work exactly like this, but Microsoft's BizSpark offers Azure credits and has managed to be free for years without abuse being a significant issue.

It seems likely that if Google made available an offering of, say, $100/mo with strings similar to BizSpark attached that it'd still be attractive to at least a few startups.

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Re:Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups by claar on Friday September 12, 2014 @03:19PM (#8309885)
Partly because $100k credit likely costs them $5k in the first place..
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Re:Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups by skj on Friday September 12, 2014 @06:16PM (#8310775)
If someone actually spends all 100k of the credit, there is no doubt that the electricity involved cost more than 5k. There are certainly margins, but if the margin was 95%, then as Bezos says, "Your margin is my opportunity."
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