👋 A weekly round-up of what was written or said at the intersection of #platforms, #marketplaces and #business, and stood out.
Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem:
you’d be thinking in generations not in, you know, weeks or years. [I]t must be inclusive of anyone who wants to participate. And it must engage the entire entrepreneurial stack — so people from various domains, roles, experience levels, and so on. And that that engagement is constant.
Ian Hathaway—Structural Shifts podcast
The App Store Debate: A Story of Ecosystems:
The problem isn’t customers or even distribution. The problem is that any platform at scale is going to become something of a hacking surface — a game board to be exploited. That’s really unfortunate but just is. The platform rules (APIs or contracts) form the board.
🕹 Ours to hack and to own—Learn by Shipping
How to price your SaaS product:
What matters much more is two other questions: Your value metric [and] your ideal customer profiles and segments. These two elements are the foundation of your monetization and pricing strategy.
Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell—Lenny's Newsletter
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