You are pitching to an investor and Amazon comes up as a potential or existing competitor. What are their weaknesses? How would you exploit them?
Ask HN: What Weaknesses Does Amazon Have?
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#4The same weaknesses that come up when you make any David/Goliath comparison. They are big, and slow to react, so you can hit them with speed and agility. Think early 90's when MicroSoft was slow to move to the web while tiny startups ate their lunch. Amazon will be hesitant to make major changes because they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Obviously those are all good, re David/Goliath. But in my experience investors dont think along those lines as much.
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#5No dark mode on their ecommerce website, or in the AWS console. Seems like a critical weakness.
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#6The same weaknesses that come up when you make any David/Goliath comparison. They are big, and slow to react, so you can hit them with speed and agility. Think early 90's when MicroSoft was slow to move to the web while tiny startups ate their lunch. Amazon will be hesitant to make major changes because they don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
How about something specific to Amazon? Obviously those are all good, re David/Goliath. But in my experience investors dont think along those lines as much.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry what is "dark mode" and why is this important?
They're referring to a (default?) dark color scheme on the web products, to make it better on the eye with better contrast.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're referring to a (default?) dark color scheme on the web products, to make it better on the eye with better contrast.
Not really what I'm asking but OK... I doubt a lacking of a color scheme is going to add much to your competitive analysis.