TripAdvisor is the largest travel site in the world, with a mission to help people plan and book the perfect trip. TripAdvisor accomplishes its goal by offering users a platform that aggregates user-generated reviews and opinions about accommodations, destinations, activities and restaurants worldwide and connecting users with providers of travel accommodations and travel services to book each aspect their trip.
Nextdoor is creating virtual neighborhood communities with lucrative demonetization opportunities.
At $1bn valuation, reaching 1/3 of U.S. communities, private social network Nextdoor has come a long a way. The company’s targeted, private approach has enabled it to build a tight community of engaged users. The platform has strong network effects and multiple options for monetization. What remains to be seen is whether Nextdoor’s network strengthens or weakens post monetization.
Harvard and other elite schools depend on network effects. Can they survive when networks get too big and too open?
Venmo uses network effects to make social network their business.
CarMax’s business model creates network effects and it’s market leader position strengthen these network effects.
No one can deny that PatientsLikeMe is a success story. From its humble beginnings as an online community for patients living with ALS, PatientsLikeMe has grown to be the largest social network and patient community online. The numbers recorded for […]
We're in the middle of the adtech race and a winner picking up the network effects is still not visible
How Valve's value creation keeps people playing this game years after its release.
Twitter’s ability to capture users quickly led to its early rapid growth, but recent slowing in active users and the rise of competing social platforms questions the strength of their direct network effects, and could potentially have lasting consequences on their ability to monetize their offering through indirect network effects.
