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Joshua Gans holds the Skoll Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto). He blogs about this and similar topics at Digitopoly . Innovators who build platforms face a difficult set of trade-offs. To begin with, the very definition of a platform requires buy-in from others — and not simply from the consumers you hope will purchase your product. The consumers and suppliers of complementary products need to make real investments too, investments that will enhance the overall value of the platform. So the platform owner not only has to build a base of consumers who will use its platform and buy products, it also has to manage the relationship with complementary suppliers and their consumers.
How Twitter, Google, and Apple Walk a Fine Line in Platform Defense - Joshua Gans - Harvard Business Review
Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. Clavier spoke last week at the International Startup Festival in Montreal on the topic of raising money - with a special emphasis on the numbers that a startup should keep an eye on. My notes from his very informative presentation are below.
How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier
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Les résultats d'une enquête réalisée auprès d'un access panel de 400 e-acheteurs français & les "regards" de 9 experts du e-commerce et de la relation client, dans un LIVRE BLANC GRATUIT ! Il a été réalisé sur la base de données collectées via une enquête quantitative online (auto-administrée par les répondants) réalisée par la société Timeliving auprès d'un access panel de 400 e-acheteurs français. Les interviews des 9 experts en e-commerce et relation client ont été réalisés par iAdvize.
livre blanc : Relation Client : ce qu'attendent les e-acheteurs
Animateur : Lancelot Pecquet Will Strategy Consulting, avec Jérôme Chailloux (Ilog), MIchel Gien ( Virtual Logix et TwinLife), Mauricio Lopez (Kelkoo), Eric Simon (Medience) Cette première conférence des Entrepreneurs Ensimag, dans les locaux de l’école, a été bien accueillie. Les spectateurs étaient au nombre de 30, à 97% issus de l’Ensimag. Le pourcentage restant se reconnaîtra facilement c’était simplement un entrepreneur grenoblois curieux.
