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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

Everyone complains about Amazon, but we all shop online. The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law. It is a worse user experience to avoid it. Thus the hypocrisy of human nature. And here’s the meat.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. In 2006, amidst high user growth and revenue numbers, several firms took part in Facebook’s Series B: Founders Fund, Interpublic Group, Meritech Capital Partners, and Greylock Partners backed the $27.5M

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

CB Insights

How Glossier’s skin tone matcher drives online conversions. Today, the world’s dominant retailers are all online. Every Harry’s razor has five blades, plus an extra one on the back for trimming in tighter spaces — the same blade quantity and layout as that of the Gillette Fusion5 first released in 2006.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). It can burden users with excessive information and friction that ruins the user experience.

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