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Start-ups that intermediate between buyers and sellers must choose a position along the continuum between pure marketplace and pure reseller. We discus…
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The good, the bad, and the ugly
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Marketplaces that charge transaction fees face an underlying leakage problem. We discuss the factors that determine the severity of the leakage issue, …
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In this post, we apply our three methods for turning products into platforms to three different providers of workspace solutions: WeWork, Room.com and …
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How can Substack productively turn itself into a platform.
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How to tell if a product has platform potential
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Reaching out to customers’ customers
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Connecting customers
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Opening the door to third parties
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Platform businesses enable direct interactions between affiliated customers. 
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How to tell when data-enabled learning can create defensible competitive positions.
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Relative to regular network effects, data network effects are easier to circumvent, costlier to maintain, and tend to run out of steam faster.
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