WeWork rides the wave of shared economy and provides cheap office solutions to SMBs and startups. But can the company become a hot spot for these companies and attract them for anything more than low rent and a cool workspace?
Snapchat quickly grew to threaten incumbent Facebook’s position in the networked mobile social industry by offering a slightly different value creation model for its users. Snapchat launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage, and truly began to take off […]
SmackHigh aims to build inter-school community through friendly smack talk and shared experiences in a safe online space
Never search for parking again! Luxe provides an easy to use on-demand valet service that will change the way you park in major cities.
Goodreads entered a market full of incumbents as varied as local libraries, Amazon reviews, and conversations between friends, and used network effects to create value for users, authors, Amazon, and more.
Lending Club is a peer-to-peer lending online platform where individuals can seek or provide capital to others on the platform. This platform grows as more credit-worthy borrowers and lenders are brought to the platform and poses a serious threat to the incumbents of the traditional banking system.
This innovative real estate company harnesses network effects so effectively, even the competition can’t resist
A network effect can make a broken market broker.
Symphony is laying out a playbook for how dominant networks can be unbundled and supplanted.
The Arduino community keeps alive a simple piece of hardware that was made obsolete years ago.
