It seems that every web 2.0 start up today is striving to become a “platform”. Obvious examples are Facebook and Twitter. By building a product that othercompanies will build their businesses on top of, a company could become an irreplaceable part of the internet’s architecture. Microsoft Windows is a great example of this working [...]
Categories: Internet, Social Networks
Tagged: Facebook, Google, Internet, Outsourcing, Platform, Twitter, Web Services
Introduction to the Innovators Dilemma
In the Innovators Dilemma and the Innovators Solution, Clayton Christensen creates a framework explaining how established companies, with large amounts of capital and loyal customer bases, are disrupted and eventually replaced by smaller companies with little capital and no customer base. This model of disruption introduces several insightful concepts, but fundamentally [...]
Categories: Internet, Social Networks, Startups
Tagged: Advertising, All Advantage, Anderson, Christensen, Disruption, Flickr, Freemium, Innovators Dillema, Pandora, Skype