Only a few weeks ago, the Platform Leaders conference brought together world leading academics, practitioners and policy makers from Airbnb, BlaBlaCar, Glovo, Google, LBS, NYU, Udemy and...
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An introduction to Launchworks & Co's white paper on principles for the governance and regulation of digital platforms. It is increasingly common for policy makers and...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been testing times for our economies. Many leaders have announced their intention to make their businesses more resilient. But how? In this article, we examine the...
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Every year, the Launchworks & Co team attends the IDE Platform Strategy Summit at the MIT Media Labs in Boston. The event is organised by renowned platform academics Marshall Van...
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The largest companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation are now digital platforms. In the US, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have become the giants we know in...
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Digital platforms and their ecosystems are on course to intermediate a third of all revenues by 2025, disrupting major industries along the way. So what does this mean for existing...
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Platform businesses create value in very different ways from traditional linear businesses. They do so by attracting two or more groups of participants, in order to match them so that they...
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Building a successful marketplace business is notoriously difficult. Marketplaces Connect 2018 provided a chance to hear reports from the front line, and hear the stories of some of the...
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Kicking off Marketplaces Connect 2018 at Rise London in Shoreditch, Laure Claire Reillier, Author of Platform Strategy and Co-Founder/COO of Launchworks & Co, described seven principles...
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Any entrepreneur will tell you that access to capital is critical to build, launch and grow a business. Capital can come from many sources: profitable and cash flow neutral customers,...
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