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Announcing Platform Scale, the book: The pre-orders campaign is now live

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Are you building a marketplace, social network or a platform? Do you ever describe what you’re doing as the Uber for X, Airbnb for Y or the Twitter for Z?1 Do you want to understand why certain startups scale and others fail?1 Over the last few years, I’ve been obsessed with platform business models and their ability to scale. Unlike traditional enterprises, platforms do not scale by scaling...

Zomato "gets" foodies, and it gets them so well

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I am a foodie. And a big Zomato fan, no pun intended anywhere. Here, I am going to talk about everything we foodies love about Zomato and all the things it could do better. For the uninitiated, Zomato is a restaurant discovery platform with 74,800 restaurants listed across 19 cities and 4 countries, and claims to have served 62.5 million foodies till date. More simply, it is about food and where...