How to build an audience using Medium.

Scribbled by: @stvmcg

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Are you building the Airbnb for X…

Building the next Instagram or WhatsApp: The Network Effect Playbook

How to build social products when network effects are easily copied

Complexity in Social Networks

How network structure impacts consumer experience.

The Startup Revenue Model Smell Test

Why Path may be in trouble

Tinder’s Big Scaling Problem

An artificial handicap leads to capped network effects

How to reduce Product Development Risk

Reduce your Idea to its core function

Founders need to get their Product Development strategy right. Right from the word go. Getting it wrong means, having to pivot somewhere down the line. And this costs time…

Selling Surprises 

A tale of two start-ups

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was…

Apple’s Home Kit and the Future of Online Education

Apple, start ups and the future of education