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Indirect Network Effects

Waze: Leveraging the Crowd to Find Your Way

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Schwas

With the help of the crowd, Waze is rapidly enhancing the way we navigate.

Groupon – Will Weak Network Effects Be Its Downfall?

Posted on October 4, 2015 by HF

Groupon is a multi-sided platform without the means of leveraging its network effects for market dominance, which in the end could kill their business.

Rue La La is declining in ooh la la

Posted on October 4, 2015 by #mustshop

Rue La La may come to rue the day it decided the novelty of flash sale sites was enough to create and capture value.

Symphony: Attacking a Dominate Network

Posted on October 4, 2015 by AJT

Symphony is laying out a playbook for how dominant networks can be unbundled and supplanted.

Tribe Vibes: The Cult of SoulCycle

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Salem

The most prevalent criticism of SoulCycle is that it is a cult, but this is perhaps the highest compliment for a business built on network effects.

ClassPass: the win-win platform connecting fitness studios with customers for $99/month

Posted on October 4, 2015 by BrittW

ClassPass, a service that offers unlimited gym classes for $99/month, has used the power of network effects to build an incredibly fast growing platform.

Is it looking terminal for the Bloomberg Terminal?

Posted on October 4, 2015 by SDS

After decades of dominating the financial data market through strong network effects, the Bloomberg Terminal may be facing some serious competition from its own community of users.

Priceline: The Travel Behemoth

Posted on October 4, 2015 by AP

The story of how Priceline became the most valuable travel company in the world and the 3rd largest player in all of Internet commerce.

Visa – Leveraging Indirect Network effects

Posted on October 4, 2015 by RS

Visa has dominated the payment processing industry for decades, leveraging indirect network effects

Waze – Generating Better Maps through its Network of Users

Posted on October 2, 2015 by JG

Through a virtuous cycle, Waze has built a large user-base which functions as both the suppliers and consumers of traffic information.

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