Tagnetwork effect

Platform Roundtable in Bangalore on “Global Platform businesses – Are Indian companies poised to win?” by Dr. Peter Evans, Vice President and Sangeet Paul Choudary of Center for Global Enterprise

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iSPIRT – co-hosted the first Platform Roundtable to prime the discussion on Indian platform companies’ game plan for potential business disruption that platform companies bring to a sector. It was held on 12th March at the office of InMobi, Bangalore. The Roundtable was anchored by Dr. Peter Evans, Vice President at CGE and Sangeet Paul Choudary, a CGE Fellow and founder of Platform Thinking Labs...

The One Feature That Changed Social Networking Forever

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What is the single most important innovation that Facebook ever came up with? Before I answer that, let’s think of the real value for users on a social network. Social networks are a classic example of the platform business model where users create all the value and there is very little value until users come on board. Real value for every individual user, then, is the value that his...