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A Beginner’s Guide to the Internet’s Opportunity Machine

The internet is a money printer for smart people willing to share their ideas online.

Like any printer, it can take lots of trial and error to get it working. Sometimes it runs out of ink. It can jam. But when it works, it’s pure magic.

If you have an internet connection and a basic impulse to share your ideas, then you picked a great time to be alive. You can take advantage of two unprecedented opportunities:

1. Building a profitable one-person media company around you and your ideas
2. Pouring gasoline on your career by sharing your ideas online

Neither opportunity is “easy,” but the upside for each is huge.

Also, these opportunities didn’t exist for the entirety of human history — until now. Lucky us.

1. One-person media companies

A one-person media company is a profitable media company built around the ideas of a single person with at most one or two full-time employees — and often none at all.

This only became possible relatively recently.

Why Today Is Special

• It’s now pretty much free to distribute media thanks to the internet
• Smartphones, tablets, and e-readers (i.e. always-on and always-online media devices) are affordable and most people have one on them at all times
• Because the internet and internet-connected devices have been widely adopted, it’s now possible to reach nearly any niche on Earth (lots of new audiences!)
• Production software and hardware have become wildly affordable and accessible

The internet has created an opportunity to build a media company powered by the ideas of a single person, a payroll smaller than a convenience store, and revenues large enough that the company could trade on the NASDAQ.