Under what conditions do API platforms have real and defensible network effects, as opposed to being just one-sided outsourcing services?
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What makes Audius’ decentralized model particularly suitable for the music industry and what are its main weaknesses?
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How can Corning’s Gorilla Glass be transformed into a platform by reaching out to its customers’ customers?
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What are the factors that make decentralized platforms better or worse than centralized platforms?
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OpenSea is oftentimes described as a decentralized platform. That is misleading.
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What are the network effects around Ethereum and layer-1 blockchains more generally, and how defensible are they?
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What strategies can marketplaces (and other network effects businesses) use to get past the cold-start problem?
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Others have described many different settings in which network effects operate. How about inside a firm?
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