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Even in the minimal example there are way more variables than it first seems. 1. How many shirts do we order? 2. When is it worth moving on to the next trend? 3. How should we handle shipping? Do we market globally or locally? Even the smallest business require a lot of balancing of priorities and planning for the long run with uncertain returns
True What's like the most minimally scoped business someone could operate entirely digitally though? Is it the drop ship crap? Or maybe like a web game w/ ad revenue?
Webgame with ad rev might work -- I was thinking some kind of churned out self-publishing of children's books? Though I'm not sure if you'd actually turn a profit. Whatever it was, it'd definitely have to be heavily engineered though -- custom tools, and basically a glorified flow chart.