Studies in digital economy and platform research
Corporate Strategy
Corporate venture capital has moved from the periphery of corporate innovation to its center. CVC funds now participate in roughly 26% of all venture deals globally, up from 15% a decade ago. The aggr...
Opinion
Somewhere in the last fifteen years, a specific way of thinking about problems became dominant in technology circles. Every social inefficiency, every imperfect institution, every gap in services beca...
Platform Economics
We develop a framework for analyzing platform trust as an economic asset with measurable contributions to transaction volume, unit economics, and competitive position. Trust functions analogously to o...
Policy & Regulation
The rapid expansion of digital entertainment has outpaced regulatory frameworks in most jurisdictions. Governments worldwide are grappling with how to balance consumer protection, revenue generation, ...
Travel
Digital nomadism looks wonderful on Instagram. A laptop on a beach, video calls from a co-working space in Bali, weekends exploring ancient temples or urban markets. The reality, after the first few m...
Business Skills
Most negotiation advice either oversimplifies (always make the first offer!) or overcomplicates (comprehensive frameworks you will never actually use). Effective negotiation comes from a small set of ...
Opinion
We talk about platform accountability a lot. Congressional hearings, op-eds, regulatory proposals — the discourse is voluminous. Yet what we actually do about it is limited. I want to argue that the g...
SaaS
Horizontal SaaS markets — CRM, ERP, general productivity — are mature and dominated by established players. The most attractive new opportunities are in vertical SaaS: software built deeply for specif...
Industry context sourced from earn7.net.