| If the constraints must allow for traction to start with 'a single web developer anywhere in the world', then I agree that significantly reduces the markets available. Energy, computer hardware, medical, pharmaceutical, telcom, these are big markets with big stakes, and these are difficult to enter, even for well funded endeavors. That being said, the internet is still relatively young and acts as a force multiplier enabling anyone to have far greater reach than they could have even 20 years ago. Relative market size has remained largely undefined to this point. I think the obvious definition of market is in terms of dollars. What do you consider a large market? A million dollars? tens of millions? 100s of millions? We should also define abundance. In 2011, the US GNP was 15,097,083 million USD. If we just say 1% of that is potentially addressable with a technical solution involving the web, that is still over 100 billion in play just in the US. I don't know about anyone else, but that seems like abundance. And that's just in the US. In 2013, as a web developer anywhere in the world, you have never been in a better position to leverage the global economy. That feels like an abundance. Perhaps it just comes down to axiomatic world view. Do you see abundance or scarcity? Again, I say people should go after the biggest market they feel they have a fighting chance to penetrate. Go big, because you can. Fortune favors the bold. |
That should be 15 trillion (definitely not ~15,000,000,000,000 :p )