How Open is Too Open?
How Google had to adjust the openness of its Android platform, just as Apple had done before them
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0x: A Development Platform for Decentralized Exchanges
How do you capture value with an open cryptographic protocol? The 0x project may be onto something.
Trendyol riding the wave of Turkish e-commerce growth
Trendyol, launched by an HBS dropout only 6 years ago, is now Turkey’s largest flash sales e-retailer. With 20 million sales a year, annual run-rate of almost $350 million and backing from top international venture investors (Tiger Global Management, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the European Reconstruction and Development Fund), it is hard to ignore. What’s more, Trendyol still has plenty of room to grow by riding the wave of growing e-commerce in Turkey (growing at 22% over the last five years), which currently accounts for only 2% of all retail sales.
Abs from an Audio App? Aaptiv Seeks to Engage Your Muscles Through Your Ears
In order to defeat Nike in digital workouts, Aaptiv must evolve from Service to Platform
SweepSouth: The Uber for domestic cleaning
In a market where households make frequent use of domestic cleaning services, SweepSouth has simplified the process of identifying reliable domestic workers. While the story has been positive thus far, can this business model scale?
Gimme Five: Fiverr in the Freelancing Economy
$5 gigs. Feel free to get weird.
Venmo: The Leader (?) in Peer to Peer Payments
How Venmo founders created a leading platform in the mobile payment space.
Musical.ly: Breaking Through the Social Media Clutter
Just when you think the social media space is crowed enough as it is, a music video platform, Muscial.ly, breaks through the clutter and became a big hit.
Homejoy: A Silicon Valley darling’s path to the grave
Homejoy was one of the first platform companies to disrupt the $400 billion home cleaning market. The company aimed to create value by using algorithms to connect homeowners with cleaners and by scheduling cleanings, all of which could be done […]
Turo: Airbnb for Cars or Platform of the Future?
Turo, the ‘Airbnb for cars’, has been growing rapidly and has set itself up for the future.