Yelp: An old dog may need a new trick soon
Yelp was an early, prominent pioneer of online crowd-sourcing, but now that it’s established, the value creation vs value capture balance might be off for its most loyal users.
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IBETCHA Want Network Effects
Hobby games are booming and they're making the jump online in search of network effects.
Leetchi – collecting money from friends has never been easier!
Group online payment platform revolutionizing European e-commerce
CoachUp: Developing Athletes of Tomorrow
“Actions Speak Louder Than Words.” We have all heard that saying many times over the years and likely seen it used in during relationships, in a professional setting, with friends…but what about in sports? Before anything else, please watch […]
China’s Taxi Wars: Winner-take-all or lose-lose for Uber and its rivals?
Rival taxi-hailing and ride-sharing apps are sustaining heavy losses in the battle for market share. Can a differentiated competitor win in the end?
Handy: Turning Product Into Platform
Busy “yuppies” with messy apartments used to be stuck with two unappealing options: either go for an expensive cleaning firm that often caters to commercially managed buildings or the gray market where immigrants with questionable legal statuses work for below […]
Chicago Mercantile Exchange: The Benefits of a Closed Platform
CME: a centuries old business that continues to benefit from compounding network effects by operating a closed platform.
Shut out: Can Meerkat win the mobile live streaming war?
In March, techies (myself included: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/why-meerkat-is-going-to-make-it/) went wild over a new kind of live streaming. A startup called Meerkat launched a mobile app that let users broadcast high quality live video to the world straight from their phones, using Twitter […]
RelayRides – The New Era of Car Sharing Economy
The network effect of RelayRide’s peer-to-peer car sharing platform.
SpotHero: Making city parking work better for you
SpotHero dramatically improves the self-parking experience for city drivers