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
New Market Strategies for Disruption
New market strategies for disruption are different than low-end disruptive strategies. Instead of simply entering the market with a lower cost, lower performance product, new market strategies involve “coming off the backplane” into a new market.
An example of a new market disruptive innovation is Sony’s portable transistor radio. When originally released, [...]
Categories: Internet, Startups
Tagged: , 4info, Babajob, Baidu, Christensen, Disruption, Google, New Market, Web