For a couple days I`ve been looking all over the web trying to figure out what I wanted to put in my first blog. I finally found it!!! BusinessWeek put out an article about a 19 year old college student in Pakistan starting an internet-based business.
What struck me about this article is that younger entrepreneurs in what we consider third world countries are on the rise because of the access and capabilities of the internet. So I got to thinking…the internet is where we need to take our businesses and business ideas.
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2008/sb20080123_487864.htm?chan=search
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Absolutely. The internet, as a communication technology, and the information technologies that get layered onto it (websites, bots, and everything else) destroy one of the greatest classical barriers in commerce: location and proximity. For some products and services, distance is immediately rendered almost irrelevant. And this goes for not just the distribution of products and services, but also the creation of them, as all of the components of creation do not have to be located in the same community.