Starting small and incrementing is certainly the way to do it.
the problem is when you need to deliver anything to earth, because it will take a lot of energy to decelerate to a velocity low enough to not destroy the goods.
Of course you could move large portions of industry-to-industry bits to space, for example all server chips, memory, bits-and-bobs could be manufactured in space for datacenters in LEO and transmitting data wirelessly. The whole cloud, so to speak, being actually in (above) the clouds.
But user terminals would still need to be either made on earth or landed gently from space. Same for cars, trains / ships and rail / harbour infrastructure, buildings and roads etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
