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What is a platform business?

 Business models, News, Platforms
 April 21, 2014

Since we declared our love to platform businesses in a previous post it is only fair for us to try to provide a definition of what we mean by platforms before explaining in more detail why...

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Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

When @Forbes names you the #1 angel investor in the world, and you've built a marketplace with 300 million users, your pattern recognition on platform disruption is hard to match.

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