The math of the Internet Business

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The math of the Internet Business Tue, Sep 5. 2006

Currently many business being created on the Internet today are simple combinations of existing ideas.

  1. Subtraction: Removal of components (Simpler content management system tuned for a specific niche.)


  2. Multiplication: Add modified copies of existing components (More hosting space)


  3. Division: Separate product into individual components (Google maps api allows for the creation of sites which only need parts of the whole)


  4. Unification: Extend the use of an existing component so that it provides additional value (Otherwise known as Mashups - Google maps and a crime database to display crimes on a map)


  5. Dependence: Change the relationship between the product and its environment (Load balanced web sites, backup and fail over systems)



This is known as “Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT)".
Paul Eisenberg has a post with some classic examples
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