> Those costs can be mitigated though; there's a lot of businesses that make it their goal to solve regulations for small startups.
Part of my concern is that in order for those regulation-solving businesses to have a working business model, they can't just support every stack under the Sun. Instead, you'll get something like GDPR for Azure™ — which means that it'll be that much more expensive for a startup using an outside-the-box stack to get started.
That's the point of a lot of regulation, really: to insulate firms which already exist from disruption.
Part of my concern is that in order for those regulation-solving businesses to have a working business model, they can't just support every stack under the Sun. Instead, you'll get something like GDPR for Azure™ — which means that it'll be that much more expensive for a startup using an outside-the-box stack to get started.
That's the point of a lot of regulation, really: to insulate firms which already exist from disruption.