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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. Obsessive curation of the brand experience. To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking?

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.