Over the last 18 years, since the Internet became a commercial phenomenon, many experiments have taken place. Many businesses have been built. A large number of them have had their origins in Silicon Valley. Some have come from other parts of the United States. A few, like Skype, have come from unlikely places such as Estonia.
Also, during this time, we have seen a great deal of concept arbitrage: the replications of successful ideas in different geographies.
Soon, there will be 2.5 billion Internet users in the world.
Naturally, very large populations of Internet users have developed around the world, and concept arbitrage makes perfect sense under the circumstances.
So here are just a few successful concept arbitrage stories we have done that you may want to read to stir your own imagination:
There are many more. I expect concept arbitrage to continue to produce numerous successful companies around the world by 2020.
Note: There were 2.3 billion internet users worldwide in the first quarter of 2012. [Source: New Media Trend Watch]
Top 20 internet countries worldwide in Q1 2012
1. China: 513.1 million
2. US: 245.2 million
3. India: 121.0 million
4. Japan: 101.2 million
5. Brazil: 81.8 million
6. Germany: 67.4 million
7. Russia: 61.5 million
8. Indonesia: 55.0 million
9. UK: 52.7 million
10. France: 50.3 million
11. Nigeria: 45.0 million
12. Mexico: 42.0 million
13. South Korea: 40.3 million
14. Iran: 36.5 million
15. Turkey: 36.4 million
16. Italy: 35.8 million
17. Philippines: 33.6 million
18. Vietnam: 30.9 million
19. Spain: 30.7 million
20. Pakistan: 29.1 million
This segment is a part in the series : Concept Arbitrage
These are nice statics because we can see how Asian countries giving competition to other countries which is nice in many ways because it's enough till any limit to make strong economy in this era.