Announcing Platform Scale, the book: The pre-orders campaign is now liveAre you building a marketplace, social network or a platform? Announcements, Platform Thinking, Platforms
The Next Big Thing that most venture investors will missWhy the future of SAAS isn't SAAS, it's network effects. Business Models, Platform Thinking
Would you like to contribute to my upcoming book?Become a featured 'contributor' in my upcoming book Personal
The case against the Sharing EconomyWhy platforms alone aren’t the solution Business Models, Future, Platforms
The Platform Stack: For everyone building a platform… and for everyone elseA unifying framework for digital business models Business Models, Competition, Platform Thinking, Platforms
What the Uber-Lyft war teaches us about building the next Uber for XInteraction failure and multi-homing costs will determine winners in the war for the next big platform Business Models, Competition
Holiday Longreads: The best of Platform Thinking from 2014Essential must-reads to understand the inner workings of today's digital startups Business Models, Competition, Platform Thinking, Platforms, Uncategorized
Interaction Limit: Real-world constraints on digital platformsThis guest post looks at a common challenge for local marketplaces. Business Models, Growth
How Alibaba, Android and Airbnb change the geometry of businessA keynote laying out the shift that platforms are bringing about in the nature of business today. Business Models, Design
Why social networks that pay you may be a bad ideaShouldn't users see some money when they are the reason for Facebook's massive valuation? Business Models, Monetization, Platform Thinking
Why New Payment Mechanisms Fail To Take OffA guest post arguing the chicken and egg challenges of payments mechanisms. Growth, Growth and Engagement Hacking, Seeding Platforms and Networks
An 8 minute primer on Platform ThinkingA studio interview at the SIBOS Global Conference in Boston, laying out the fundamentals of Platform Thinking. Business Models, Platform Thinking, Platforms
City-as-a-platform: Applying platform thinking to citiesCan cities be modeled as platforms? This guest post shows how. Business Models, Platform Thinking, Why Platforms Disrupt
Engineering-as-marketing: How startups transform marketingWhen engineers start thinking about user growth, new forms of marketing emerge. Growth
Uber: The feedback loop disrupting transportationUnderstanding the feedback loops that drive Uber's rapid growth and business model. Growth, Platform Thinking
Will peer lending platforms disrupt banking? Feedback loops may hold the keyPlatforms may leverage implicit social and usage data to challenge traditional industries like banking. Growth
The Network Effect Isn’t Good Enough!The concept of stored value: How network effects can be strengthened further. Growth, Signal-To-Noise Ratio
The Lepore-Christensen Debate: A repeatable pattern for Platforms and Disruptive InnovationA detailed breakdown of how platforms like Airbnb, YouTube, Wikipedia and Odesk disrupt entire industries. Business Models, Why Platforms Disrupt
From Twitter to Tinder: Why you should stop launching at tech conferencesContrary to popular wisdom, launching at a tech conference may be a bad idea unless you can leverage organic interactions at the event. Growth, Seeding Platforms and Networks
From Social Media to the Sharing Economy: The Three Drivers of Business DisruptionWhat’s common between social media, the sharing economy and the internet of things? This post helps create a lens for the future. Business Models, Growth, Platform Thinking, Platforms, Why Platforms Disrupt