9 Best Articles in 2022
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Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
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~12 min read · From 2019 · Some network effects (when a network gains more value to its users as more people participate in its platform) don’t show up in the usual metrics. Their hidden nature makes them hard to measure – but they can confer significant long-term competitive advantages. In an insightful article for A16Z.com, D’Arcy Coolican – an Andreessen Horowitz partner and a co-founder of the peer-to-peer lending platform Frank – shines a light on hidden networks, giving useful guidelines for identifying when they’re at work.
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Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass
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20+ min read · From 2016 · This post is all about network effects and critical mass. But it’s also about applying those concepts as important mental models in business, so I will share a short story about a business decision I…
Reader View · Shared by 236, including Esther Schindler, Courtney Bolton ★, Klaus Eck, Greg Meyer, Mathias Böhm, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Matthieu de Luze, Martin Recke, Nir Eyal, Dominik Grolimund, Stefan T, Stephanie A Kowalski, Martin Rajcan 🇺🇦🕊, Raul Tiru 🌎, Jacob Jarnvall, Marcus Kuhn, Mark Kaigwa, Brent Summers, Brij Singh, Twitty
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The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)
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20+ min read · From 2018 · The 13 Network Effects & How They Actually Work
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Kickstarting Network Effects
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2 min read · 2021-12-06 · Network effects can be found powering almost every major technology company, from messaging apps and workplace collaboration tools, like Slack and Zoom, to marketplaces, like Airbnb and Instacart to…
Reader View · Shared by 142, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Andrew Chen 🎮
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16 Ways to Measure Network Effects
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~14 min read · From 2019 · Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either you have them, or you don’t. In practice, most com…
Reader View · Shared by 151, including Elena Neira, Remy Bataille, Dominik Grolimund, Vinny Lingham, Sacha Roger, Carl Morris, Li Jin, ErmanTaylan.eth, kp 🇺🇦, Thomas Pleil, Sachin Rekhi, Neil Lee, Johannes Lenz, Liliane Ferrari ™, Bill Johnston
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What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects
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10 min read · From 2020 · Data is not inherently valuable. Most data doesn’t produce a real data network effect, and most data network effects aren’t that powerful even once established. Data strategy, in terms of value…
Reader View · Shared by 103, including Dominik Grolimund, 瑞拿頭, Rob Go, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
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Beyond Metcalfe’s Law for Network Effects, and Towards a Better Model
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7 min read · 2021-11-23 · Metcalfe’s Law persists today in discussions of network effects, yet it is not enough for those in the industry who seek to create, scale, and compete using this powerful force -- the product…
Reader View · Shared by 116, including Zoe Scaman, Andrew Chen 🎮, John Hagel, Scott Brinker, Thomas Pleil
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The Dynamics of Network Effects
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9 min read · From 2018 · The most successful companies and products of the internet era have all been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. Th…
Reader View · Shared by 107, including Li Jin, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, fernand0, Sachin Rekhi, Jorge Alcaín Pro, Bill Johnston, Ha Duong, Dominik Grolimund, Oscar MacDonald, Nir Eyal
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All about Network Effects
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2 min read · From 2016 · Network effects. It’s one o
Reader View · Shared by 104, including Eckart Burgwedel, Sarah (Patrick) Anyan, Luis Roig, Daniel Jörg, Benedict Evans, Mark Needham, Sacha Roger, Walid Ark, Dominik Grolimund, Startupxplore
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Cars Manufacture the Modern Middle Class
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May 3rd · Plus! Not Enough Housing; Durable Network Effects; VPN Integration; Reserve Currency Problems; Movies
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📬 Linkedin: Gamifying Status
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1 min read · May 16th · Delivering single player value for a network-effect based business.
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Why Build in Web3
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7 min read · May 16th · A major change is coming to the internet. While today’s dominant platforms have guarded their troves of user data and maintained an advantage through network effects, new companies — working in what…
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Ethernet creator Metcalfe: Web3 will have all kinds of 'network effects'
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4 min read · May 5th · Decentralized knowledge graphs such as the kind that startup OriginTrail is making will lead to levels of value far greater than has been the case on the internet so far, says Bob Metcalfe.
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Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
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20+ min read · From 2020 · What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear.We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out…
Reader View · Shared by 255, including David Nagel, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Ha Duong, rohit, Mark Kaigwa, John Hagel, Kathryn Minshew, sircharlsxavier, Tom Connor, Faik Ersoy, Shawn Venasse, Tomas Pueyo, Thomas Power
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How Network Effects Rule the World (with James Currier)
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20+ min read · 2021-10-06 · Entrepreneur and investor James Currier joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the power and future of networks.
Reader View · Shared by 105, including Azeem Azhar, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Bill Johnston
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Network Effects
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From 2017 · Network Effects A N U H A R I H A R A N E T A L What are network effects? Properties, terms, and laws of networks Strategies for building network effects What aren’t network effects? Case studies of…
Shared by 42, including Bill Johnston, Thomas Power, Veronika Lampion, Dominik Grolimund, Leo Polovets, Leslie D
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Beyond network effects; digging moats in non-networked products
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6 min read · From 2018 · Important businesses will be built in areas without network effects and there are ways to become extremely valuable without them
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Network Effects Aren’t Enough
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~17 min read · From 2016 · The hidden traps in building an online marketplace
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The Three Systems Beneath Network Effects
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8 min read · 2021-12-07 · An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
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70% of Value in Tech is Driven by Network Effects
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5 min read · From 2017 · The Big 5 — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon — are hitting all time high valuations. Airbnb is worth more than Hilton in the…
Reader View · Shared by 104, including Mark Kaigwa, Agustin, Mathew Ingram, Clemens M. Schuster, Johann Romefort, Thomas Pleil, Martin Recke, Weiting Chen, Ha Duong, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Bjorn Larsen, Thomas Wong, Arne Keuning, Nir Eyal
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Essays on network effects, growth hacking, and tech
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2 min read · From 2018 · @andrewchen Get my newsletter. It features long-form essays on startups, growth, metrics, and network effects. I’ve written 650+ essays which have been featured and quoted in The New York Times,…
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Network Effects
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From 2017 · What are network effects? Properties, terms, and laws of networks Strategies for building network effects What aren’t network effects? Case studies of companie…
Shared by 17, including Thomas Power, Thomas Pleil, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, blinch, Jakub Albert Ferenc
