Re: [TCLUG:11792] [TCLUG] I'd like some opinions on a business

[Scott <pope@ossuary.net>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Chad Juettner wrote:

> It sounds great. Have you thought about how you'll fund your new business?
> If all you've had are minimum wage jobs, where are you going to get the
> cash for your first few machines?

     I stuffed some money away in the market a few years
ago, so that'll be my starting fund.  I'm going to poke
around for a small business loan too, though whether I can
secure one is unknown.

> Also, how is what your business going to be different from the other guys?
> What are you going to do that VA doesn't, if that's who you're planning on
> competing against?

     Well, I'm going to try and price machines in a way that
doesn't gouge the hell out of customers to start.  If I can
do that, I can try and work my way into places currently
running NT or Solaris machines, which is really what I need
to target.  If it goes over, then I'd spend capital on
bringing in people who know more on the technical side to
provide better support, instead of being like VA and
spending my capital on figurehead programmers and gobbling
up important sites so people can't load anything without
seeing my wankerous ads.  Not saying that I wouldn't host
sites on my network if it got that big, but I sure as hell
wouldn't create a policy that says the project needed to
give me free banner rotations in return.
     Can you tell I'm not a fan of VA?  Sure what they do
probably makes sense on the business side, but it makes me
ill.  I guess my strategy could be summed up as trying to be
a good company selling good stuff supported by good clued in
people while not being full of shit or hot air.  Penguin
Computing with better prices, if you will. 

Scott
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