The Scalability of Digital Business

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🎧 Iru Helper Note — Use

Korean Helper Widgets to hear business phrases like 확장성이 높다, 성장성이 크다, and 네트워크 효과가 발생하다. 📊

🌈 The Big Picture

🎨 Core Vocabulary Family

• 디지털 비즈니스 = digital business

• 확장성 = scalability

• 성장성 = growth potential

• 네트워크 효과 = network effect

• 플랫폼 = platform

• 사용자 기반 = user base

• 수익 모델 = revenue model

• 운영 효율성 = operational efficiency

• 한계 비용 = marginal cost

• 규모의 경제 = economies of scale

• 시장 진입 = market entry

• 지속 가능성 = sustainability

🛠️ How They Work in Sentences

• 🚀 디지털 비즈니스는 한계 비용이 낮을수록 확장성이 높아질 가능성이 크다.
  A digital business is more likely to have high scalability when marginal cost is low.

• 🕸️ 사용자가 늘어날수록 서비스의 가치가 커지면 네트워크 효과가 발생한다.
  When service value increases as users increase, a network effect occurs.

• 💼 성장성이 큰 플랫폼이라도 안정적인 수익 모델이 없으면 지속 가능성이 낮아질 수 있다.
  Even a platform with strong growth potential may have low sustainability without a stable revenue model.

🧩 Collocation Builder

• 확장성이 높다 = scalability is high

• 성장성이 크다 = growth potential is strong

• 사용자 기반을 확대하다 = expand the user base

• 네트워크 효과가 발생하다 = a network effect occurs

• 수익 모델을 구축하다 = build a revenue model

• 운영 효율성을 높이다 = increase operational efficiency

• 한계 비용을 낮추다 = lower marginal cost

• 시장 진입 장벽을 낮추다 = lower barriers to market entry

📚 Cross-check note

🪞 Synonym Alert

• 확장성 = capacity to handle growth; 성장성 = likelihood or potential for growth.

• 수익성 = profitability; 성장성 = growth potential. They are related but not the same.

• 효율성 = using fewer resources; 효과성 = achieving the intended result.

• 플랫폼 often connects multiple groups; 서비스 may simply provide one function.

⚠️ Pitfalls to Dodge

• ❌ 확장성 means growth itself. → ✅ It means the capacity to grow smoothly.

• ❌ 성장성 means profitability. → ✅ Growth potential and profitability are different.

• ❌ More users always create 네트워크 효과. → ✅ Users must add value to one another.

• ❌ Low marginal cost means no cost. → ✅ It means additional cost is relatively low, not zero.

• ❌ Platform scale guarantees success. → ✅ Trust, infrastructure, retention, and revenue still matter.