Shaadi.com – The Original Tinder
Shaadi.com has been the pioneer of the match-making platform in India much before the people discovered the Tinder way to find a match. Perhaps, it was a decade too early.
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Amazon.com – the Winner Takes It All
Amazon.com – an icon in the world of platforms
Zillow: Who Gets the Value?
Zillow, the property-sale platform, exists in between an online and physical world.
Glamsquad: Making Over the Beauty Services Industry
Can Glamsquad build a platform of scale in on-demand beauty?
This Chinese Man is Battling for Women’s Fertile Ground
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Alexa: From Smart Assistant to Smart Platform
In the last few years smart assistants have been getting a lot of attention as the tech giants compete for share of voice. Apple was one of the first to market with Siri, but they kept their AI platform closed and […]
TopTal.com: Growing a new marketplace platform in a competitive space.
Toptal is a two-sided marketplace that matches freelancers who are looking for work on one side, with companies looking to hire temporary workers on the other side. Even though it competed with established large platforms, the company managed to grow faster than the market and establish a successful platform by focusing on the ‘high-end’ part of the market.
Chunyu Doctor, the largest telemedicine platform in China
Chunyu Doctor (春雨医生) is an online telemedicine platform in China. Among the telemedicine companies in China, it has the largest Internet penetration rate, and it has accumulated more than $100 million in capital. In September 2016, Cycares, the international branch of Chunyu Doctor, completed its series C venture capital fund raising round, raising $50 million, the largest round of venture funding ever achieved in the Chinese telemedicine industry.
AirBnB moves Beyond Home Booking to Reduce MultiHoming
AirBnb adds services to increase differentiation and network effects, in an effort to reduce multihoming and own the market.
HotelTonight: A Trendsetter Tries to Keep Up
With fierce competition from major OTAs and high levels of multi-homing, can HotelTonight, the pioneer of last-minute mobile hotel bookings, stay in the game?