Islands of Commerce: What Marketplace Founders Can Learn from 60 Years of Island Biogeography
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A fumigation experiment in the Florida Keys explains more about marketplace dynamics than most business books. Originally published at vibeagentmaking.com The Empty Island Problem In 1966, Harvard graduate student Daniel Simberloff conducted a pivotal experiment in the Florida Keys. He fumigated six tiny mangrove islands to eliminate all arthropods, then observed what happened as species naturally recolonized. This work tested theory proposed by Edward O. Wilson and Robert MacArthur in their 196