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When Customers Make You Smarter

Steve Blank

Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. At Linden Lab, delivered the open-sourced Second Life Viewer 2.0 Having a multisided market with five segments is a pretty complicated business model. A Five-sided Market.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.