8. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is
more attractive than a platform.
A platform is essentially a marketplace that connects the supply side
(goods and services) and the demand side (people who want to buy
them).
Why should I care?
9. Players in a platform ecosystem
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary (2016)
10. Players in a platform ecosystem
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary (2016)
When a platform
enters a pipeline firm’s market,
the platform almost always wins.
13. 3 Lessons Learned as a
Product Manager
6 reasons platforms fail
1. Failure to optimize “openness”
2. Failure to engage developers
3. Fail to share the surplus
4. Failure to launch the right side
5. Failure to put critical mass ahead of money
6. Failure of imagination
6 Reasons Platforms Fail by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, Sangeet Paul Choudary (2016)
14. Which network is more defensible?
Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t by Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti (2019)
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Some digital networks are fragmented into local clusters of users. In Uber’s network, riders and drivers interact with network members outside their home cities only occasionally. But other digital networks are global; on Airbnb, visitors regularly connect with hosts around the world.
Platforms on global networks are much less vulnerable to challenges, because it’s difficult for new rivals to enter a market on a global scale.
People don’t want LP’s, CD’s, or 8 track tapes. They want to listen to music. The job-to-be-done doesn’t go away, even after a product is long gone.
People don’t want LP’s, CD’s, or 8 track tapes. They want to listen to music. The job-to-be-done doesn’t go away, even after a product is long gone.
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