Old School Network Effects
Harvard and other elite schools depend on network effects. Can they survive when networks get too big and too open?
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The Fitbit Fad?
Fitbit owes its success to strong direct network effects, but its survival depends on the establishment of a strong indirect network.
Just Venmo me.
Venmo uses network effects to make social network their business.
CarMax – The way network effects should be
CarMax’s business model creates network effects and it’s market leader position strengthen these network effects.
PatientsLikeMe: unquestionably successful, but only one misstep from disaster
No one can deny that PatientsLikeMe is a success story. From its humble beginnings as an online community for patients living with ALS, PatientsLikeMe has grown to be the largest social network and patient community online. The numbers recorded for […]
The Sims Online Should Have Taken Its Own Advice To “Be Somebody. Else.” (Or, When Networks Fight Back)
What happens when a best-selling game manufacturer decides to launch an MMO with no rules and a focus on social interaction?
Chaos.
Adtech and network effect
We're in the middle of the adtech race and a winner picking up the network effects is still not visible
Team Fortress 2 by Valve Software: From Product to Platform
How Valve's value creation keeps people playing this game years after its release.
Twitter: A network potentially losing its effects
Twitter’s ability to capture users quickly led to its early rapid growth, but recent slowing in active users and the rise of competing social platforms questions the strength of their direct network effects, and could potentially have lasting consequences on their ability to monetize their offering through indirect network effects.
EdX – learning for anyone, anytime, anywhere
How they help global learners to increase access to some of the best learning contents in the world