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Consuprise 2: Combine consumer and entreprise markets to multiply network effects

Expand to see inline the other posts in Strate­gic Shifts» How can web start-ups use the enter­prise mar­ket to make inroads in the con­sumer market(s) they tar­get? By play­ing at the edge, and using the enter­prise mar­ket to strate­gi­cally dom­i­nate com­peti­tors in the con­sumer mar­ket even­tu­ally tar­geted. The rev­enue streams cre­ated in the process (detailed in a pre­vi­ous post) are …

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Dopplr and Tripit: next-gen strategies ? Part 2

Fol­low up on my pre­vi­ous post about Dopplr/Tripit (here­after D/T ). [Small digres­sion: it’s very hard (at least to me) to find the right “voice” for blog­ging. My nat­ural ten­dency is to write in details. Unfor­tu­nately, I don’t the time to afford it in the blog, and it’s prob­a­ble read­ers can’t afford it either. So for the time being, I’ll try …

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TripIt/Dopplr: case in point

Remem­ber one of the com­pet­i­tive advan­tages I pointed out for Dopplr ver­sus TripIt ? Very skilled at con­nect­ing with thought-leaders and the blo­gos­phere: Dopplr launched with an incred­i­ble buzz and this atten­tion is sus­tained. It receives way more cov­er­age than Tripit. This is due to the skills and con­nec­tion of the peo­ples onboard. Well, a great illus­tra­tion of this came …

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Dopplr and Tripit: next-gen strategies ? Part 1

Answer­ing Umair’s ques­tions: What do you think next-gen strate­gies look and feel like? Can you name a com­pany that’s a good exam­ple? What’s dif­fer­ent about them – what’s their advan­tage built on? I pro­posed to take TripIt and Dopplr as a case study. Their—now intertwined—future should pro­vide insights on the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the com­pet­i­tive advan­tages they’re using.

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