MercadoLibre: Leading Latin America’s E-commerce Revolution
Will homefield advantage allow LatAm’s largest e-commerce platform to survive competition from Amazon?
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How did a small player such as Coffee Meets Bagel manage to compete and win market share from a $3 billion market leader Tinder?
How did a small player such as Coffee Meets Bagel manage to compete and win market share from a $3 billion market leader Tinder? Online dating is one of the most interesting platform business. Despite being around as a web-based […]
Australia Zoo: A platform in the age before platforms
In a world before Facebook, Uber, or Amazon, Australia Zoo created an unlikely platform of digital media, guest experience, and celebrity to become a global powerhouse.
Can OpenTable survive, or is it losing popularity?
OpenTable owns no restaurants and instead, plays as the middle player between restaurants and customers in various cities around the U.S. and other countries. Today, OpenTable seats more than 23 million diners every month in 43,000 restaurants around the world. Why did OpenTable gain such popularity?
Can Construction Tech Companies Win the War Over the Smart Home Market?
Silicon Valley startup, Acre Designs, wants to change the way we buy, design and interact with our homes. Could the pre-fabricated house be to Acre Designs what the iPhone is to Apple?
The “Harvard” of Dating Apps: The League
Is The League doing enough to sustain its global network? Does The League truly want us to find love? Or instead does it hope that we continue swiping left so that we stay on the platform and continue to grow their bottom line?
Lending Club: Platform Success but P2P failure?
Lending club founder was able to build a robust lending platform against significant headwinds, but it's unclear if the resulting product matches the initial vision of a "peer to peer' marketplace.
Remind: creating and monetizing an edtech platform
Remind provided a free communications platform for teachers and parents that amassed scale of 35M teachers. But, they’ve struggled with figuring out how to monetize – and have large tech companies entering as competition in the edtech space.
Twitch: the ESPN of Esports
Twitch – a live streaming platform for video games – has gained viewership that rivals CNN and MSNBC. With the help of its parent (Amazon), Twitch has a good chance of becoming the ESPN of Esports.
GROW(ing) a platform to improve job placement in Japan (and then the world?)
GROW has quickly grown its platform to match recruiters and job applicants using sophisticated AI tools in Japan. A no-fee-to-applicants model has allowed for quick expansion and increased the quality of the platform (by providing vast amounts of training data for its algorithms). Should GROW consider geographic expansion?