The equivalent question is What are the traditional costs of creating an Internet business?
SBI is an investment in multiple integrated systems that removes the costs of a traditional Internet business. It is difficult to quantify, but as a list these costs can include: Your time: the biggest cost and includes your time to learn how to build an Internet business, to link together and maintain technologies to operate an Internet business, to manually research your idea, to learn the programming language used on the Internet or the tools to write this language. Your time also has an “opportunity cost” – that’s the cost of using your time to do something else, eg researching a new tool when you could be growing your business.
