SpotHero: Making city parking work better for you
SpotHero dramatically improves the self-parking experience for city drivers
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LevelUp: A Rewarding Network $$
LevelUp, a mobile-first payment and customer loyalty platform is channeling multiple network effects and value capture decisions to disrupt the point of sale experience for consumers and merchants.
Bill.com – Do network features mean network effects?
Is business-to-business (B2B) payments platform Bill.com competing successfully with network effects?
Is it looking terminal for the Bloomberg Terminal?
After decades of dominating the financial data market through strong network effects, the Bloomberg Terminal may be facing some serious competition from its own community of users.
PayPal’s head start not enough to dominate online payments
Fuelled by its user base and network effects PayPal once looked invincible. The network effects have since crumbled and PayPal faces real threats.
Venmo: Building direct network effects and then…nothing happened?
Venmo has grown with strong direct network effects, but has been unable to crack the indirect network effects.
WeChat: How a Chinese Messaging App is Winning the Internet
WeChat has pioneered the messaging-as-a-platform business model, generating massive revenue from its 600 million active users and capturing value across industries from banking to transportation. Where will it grow next?
Squaring off the Competition: How Square is Changing Transactions
Square: we’ve all seen it. Every farmer’s market, every craft fair, every food truck. But this revolutionary piece of hardware has exploded into a network of innovative solutions infiltrating all parts of the transaction sector. Ranging from near invisible […]
Pa(in)Pal: A Company In Denial
We’ve all used Paypal. It’s the lesser of two evils when deciding between the manual input of payment information, or clicking a few buttons. But, in a world of shifting payment systems, and increasing disruptions in the transaction […]
TILT: Taking the Hassle out of Group Fund Collection
Tilt, a P2P payment platform answers the struggles of group funding by taking the risk off the contributor and the administrative burden off the organizer.