How to become an Internet billionaire in under 150 words
Fancy your chances as a pure play internet billionaire? Choose from the list below of one user need websites serve. Then find a way to satisfy it.
1. Use otherwise desktop based services online – hello Hotmail, Basecamp, Salesforce
2. Navigate the web – AltaVista (remember them?), Yahoo, Google
3. Sell products or services – everyone and his dog
4. Connect buyers and sellers – AliBaba, Expedia, EBay
5. Co-ordinate schedules – Google calendar et al but still white space aplenty
6. Provide information – Wikipedia, blogs, del.icio.us
7. Find information – Wikipedia, NYT, IMDB
8. Get recommendations – RottenTomatoes, TripAdvisor, Amazon
9. Purchase products or (less so) services – Amazon, GlassesDirect, Netflix
10. Share personal information either as a whole or sliced into pieces – MySpace, Twitter, Picasa
11. Store personal information – a rich white space.
12. Connect to others – Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn.
For added payback, combine needs (vide Amazon, Google, Facebook and more). Are we missing anything here?
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Comments ( 2 )
Kev added these pithy words on Aug 11 08 at 9:27 amOne major oversight here I think - aren’t most of these needs already met? For me, it’s now about hitting the micro-niches. e.g. for #4, connecting buyers and sellers of, say, classic concert tickets online, or #6 provide information on local services.
Without aiming for the small gaps, it would be an insurmountable task going up against some of the names in your list - you’d probably need to be a billionaire first to get enough weight behind you if you were aiming for the width some of these players have!
sam added these pithy words on Oct 02 08 at 7:20 pmHey! thats true but i mean come on Kev.. Ok say you have a idea, invention etc, and you just a ordinary man/women even just a kid.. wouldn’t one be looking at funding??? going to big companies and telling them about you idea?