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Network effects

The Co-Opetition Dilemma: Will Airbnb’s Co-Host Network benefit everyone?

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Paul Belleflamme

Expectations game: How digital platforms try to fuel their own growth

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Paul Belleflamme

Opportunity knocks: How new platforms are sheltering disgruntled Etsy sellers

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Paul Belleflamme

Cracking the Code: Demystifying the Minimum Viable Platform (2)

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Paul Belleflamme

Cracking the Code: Demystifying the Minimum Viable Platform (1)

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Paul Belleflamme

Netflix: On the road to a hybrid model?

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When apps go mental

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Paul Belleflamme

Airbnb helps its customers go electric

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Fake it till you make it? Maybe not…

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Paul Belleflamme

Competitive analysis

Do super-apps represent a competitive threat?

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Acquisition/Retention

How Stasher acquired its first users

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Paul Belleflamme

Will E3 now stand for Emergence, Expansion and Ending?

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Paul Belleflamme

The difficult business of trust on platforms

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Is Netflix turning to versioning?

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BlaBlaCar and Klaxit: A marriage of convenience

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Paul Belleflamme

Network effects

Network effects on crowdfunding platforms - Participation decisions

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Paul Belleflamme

How to boost trust on a platform?

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Paul Belleflamme

Network effects

Network effects on crowdfunding platforms - Usage decisions

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Paul Belleflamme

Talking of trust on - and in - TikTok

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The chicken, the egg, or none of them?

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Paul Belleflamme