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How to win with marketplaces: The three success factors

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sangeet Paul Choudary who analyzes business models for Internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Marketplaces are difficult businesses to run. This is similar to the critical mass of users that is needed on a social network for users to find value in the network.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Social games overflow out of Facebook. While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. Real time web usage outpaces business models.

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