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# Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment

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Over the last decade or so, we're seeing the emergence of a new form of scale. Today's massively scaling startups - which rapidly grow to millions of users and billions in valuation - do not sell a product or service. Instead, they build a platform on which others can create and exchange value. The many manifestations of the platform business model - social media, the peer economy, cryptocurrencies, APIs and developer ecosystems, the Internet of things, crowdsourcing models, and many others - are becoming increasingly relevant. Yet, most new platform ideas fail because the business design and growth strategies involved in building platforms are not well understood. Platform Scale lays out a structured approach to designing and growing a platform business model and addresses the key factors leading to the success and failure of these businesses. Six core concepts for successful platform business model design 1. Re-imagine your business for platform scale The mechanism by which these new business models scale so rapidly. Understand the shift in thinking needed to manage businesses with platform scale and the impact of network effects, virality, behavior design and data. "We are not in the business of building software. We are in the business of enabling interactions." 2. Leverage interaction-first design How detailed consideration around designing the producer-consumer core interaction is critical for building business models that leverage platform scale. "The design of the platform business model involves the design of a core interaction followed by the design of an open infrastructure that will enable and govern this interaction." 3. Build cumulative value and minimize interaction failure Know the key managerial decisions to focus on while managing platform scale businesses, all geared towards maximizing the ability of these businesses to enable interactions by scaling producer participation and minimizing interaction failure. "Platform scale is achieved by maximizing the repeatability and efficiency of the platform's core interaction." 4. Solve chicken and egg problems Platform business models face an all too familiar catch-22 chicken and egg problem on the way to scaling. This can be overcome by designing the conditions for sparking interactions. "The solution to the chicken-and-egg problem requires a bait that can break the vicious cycle of no activity." 5. Design viral engines Understand the drivers of viral growth in a world of networks and apply the viral canvas design-first approach to viral growth. "Virality is a business design problem, not a marketing or engineering effort. It requires design before optimization." 6. Account for reverse network effects Consider the counter view on platform scale and be on the lookout for conditions where scale can be detrimental to platform businesses. "The goal of platform scale is to ensure the simultaneous scaling of quantity and quality, of interactions." Platform Scale is a maker's guide for entrepreneurs, innovators and educators looking to understand and implement the inner workings of highly scalable platform business models.

Review: Brilliant, must read for every tech entrepreneur - Great Artists Simplify and Sangeet is one such artist ( writer, thought leader). If you are contemplating a startup, please read this book. It will give you an excellent perspective on core concepts for a successful business model.I have been reading Sangeet's blog (http://platformthinkinglabs.com/) for past several years and have been always impressed with his profound clarity of concepts around Digital businesses and platform thinking. So it's nice to see his learnings and thesis in condensed book form with the use of several contemporary examples. This book is great for anyone building a consumer tech business, executing product development projects or trying to build a business, model. - the advice is very actionable. Sangeet has written some compelling business truths that are hard to ignore. His premise is that all businesses are different and following a recipe can be a recipe for disaster. Having said that he does give us some golden nuggets of wisdom and mental models that can help business founders stay afloat. Buy it. The ROI can be huge
Review: perfect tactics to build great business models - He has explained the roots of current gaint business models, how they succeded by early analysing the trends from pipes to platform eco systems. Glad I didn't missed it. Everybody who wants build business should go through the trends pall has explained. Thank you paul The amount of time u invested in reading business models of present trend and giving them and sharing them with us.

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| Best Sellers Rank | #752,293 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #22,182 in Business & Economics |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 422 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant, must read for every tech entrepreneur
*by G***S on 23 September 2015*

Great Artists Simplify and Sangeet is one such artist ( writer, thought leader). If you are contemplating a startup, please read this book. It will give you an excellent perspective on core concepts for a successful business model.I have been reading Sangeet's blog (http://platformthinkinglabs.com/) for past several years and have been always impressed with his profound clarity of concepts around Digital businesses and platform thinking. So it's nice to see his learnings and thesis in condensed book form with the use of several contemporary examples. This book is great for anyone building a consumer tech business, executing product development projects or trying to build a business, model. - the advice is very actionable. Sangeet has written some compelling business truths that are hard to ignore. His premise is that all businesses are different and following a recipe can be a recipe for disaster. Having said that he does give us some golden nuggets of wisdom and mental models that can help business founders stay afloat. Buy it. The ROI can be huge

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ perfect tactics to build great business models
*by B***S on 29 October 2015*

He has explained the roots of current gaint business models, how they succeded by early analysing the trends from pipes to platform eco systems. Glad I didn't missed it. Everybody who wants build business should go through the trends pall has explained. Thank you paul The amount of time u invested in reading business models of present trend and giving them and sharing them with us.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ... been following sangeet's blog of late and he is pretty much a authority on how the Internet is shaping ...
*by A***V on 5 October 2015*

I have been following sangeet's blog of late and he is pretty much a authority on how the Internet is shaping business and by using the power of networks effects in a sharing economy

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