| For one, when your trying to disrupt something doing more of the same everyone is doing is probably not the right way to do it. Service providers talk, they talk to their customers they talk to their competition - otherwise they provide a shitty service, which doesn't bring in much money, which gets you out of business. Imagine this conversation: Provider Alice: Hey I just got my first daily deal out the door. Hope it recuperates the steep cost in the long term. Provider Bob: Cool, where did you do it? Provider Alice: Groupon Clone X! Because... Provider Bob: Nice, I do all my deals on Disruptive service Y, which costs me only a fraction of the Groupon Clone X. Provider Alice: Motherfucker... What I'm trying to say is that this market is a race to the bottom and will probably enter the schoolbooks as an example of a dead-end business opportunity. |