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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions?