Studies in digital economy and platform research
Lifestyle
Late in the afternoon I noticed the light through a glass of water. It made small rainbows on the table. I looked at them for maybe thirty seconds before going back to what I was doing. I do not remem...
Technology
The web that emerged from the 2000s was genuinely open. Independent blogs, forums, and personal sites carried substantial traffic. RSS readers aggregated content without platform intermediation. Searc...
Business Skills
The majority of business writing — emails, memos, reports, proposals — fails at its core job. It does not clearly communicate what the writer needs the reader to understand or do. Even intelligent, ca...
Commerce
While consumer marketplaces get most of the attention, B2B marketplaces are quietly rebuilding how businesses buy and sell. The scale of B2B commerce is roughly ten times larger than consumer commerce...
SaaS
Horizontal SaaS markets — CRM, ERP, general productivity — are mature and dominated by established players. The most attractive new opportunities are in vertical SaaS: software built deeply for specif...
Entertainment
The center of gravity in global esports has shifted decisively toward emerging markets. By 2025, over 58% of the world's 640 million esports viewers were located in Asia, Latin America, and parts of A...
Corporate Strategy
Corporate venture capital has moved from the periphery of corporate innovation to its center. CVC funds now participate in roughly 26% of all venture deals globally, up from 15% a decade ago. The aggr...
Opinion
Somewhere in the last fifteen years, a specific way of thinking about problems became dominant in technology circles. Every social inefficiency, every imperfect institution, every gap in services beca...
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