Blog Post Assignment
February 23, 2016
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Please submit your blog posts via this assignment. Please refer to the Learning Hub for your assigned due date.
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During Field 3 last spring, my team started a two sided online marketplace. After some initial success and discussions about how to move forward, I finally decided to kill the idea and would like to document a post-mortem. This post [...]
When Facebook made the decision to unbundle Messenger from the blue app, the internet went ablaze. How dare you make me download a new app that I can already access, we all cried. A few years later, the prescience of [...]
As of January 1 2016, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has made it compulsory for all investors (Retail, HNI and Institutional) to apply for IPO shares electronically under the new ASBA (Application Supported by Blocked Amount) regulation. [...]
How to use mobile apps to make big gamblers keep spending at the casino floor
With the success of Netflix and Hulu, how long can television hold on?
The HBS Fire Sale could use technology to ease matching. Here is how our coder classmates fixed the problem.
Telemedicine is massively and intimately changing the way Health Care is delivered. Providers and payors will benefit from Telemedicine and cut costs, while maintaining the same quality standards. Will patients, too? Under what conditions?
Multiple apps have appeared to solve the same customer need: to communicate via mobile. Yet, they all seem to pretty much do the same. So why is it that users don’t just stick to one single app?
The monolithic player in the sharing economy is once again in the front page; this time around for a not so appealing news story. UBER, the company that is breaking all the records imaginable, available in 58 countries and 300 [...]
Companies seeking to connect with younger consumers or avid social media users should seriously consider their approach to Black Twitter, which has significant influence on cultivating trending topics and defining what is popular.
Can consumers reliably select and purchase large-scale furniture items online without seeing the items in-person, and more importantly trying them out first? I thought this would be a definite no, though the recent successes of mattress start-up Casper and online [...]
Care.com struggles to find a sustainable business model and instead falls victim to the pitfalls of online economies.
Tradesy App makes it easy to buy and sell luxury brands second hand from their phones!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iSlPoQm2XY ——A kiss is not a contract… but that’s only because you can’t upload a kiss to the blockchain (yet). I don’t know enough about the blockchain or smart contracts to decide whether the above youtube video/joke combo made any [...]
Last month, I was babysitting my one-year-old niece and quickly ran out of nursery rhymes to sing to keep her entertained. That’s when YouTube Kids came to my rescue. A free, ad supported family app, it is Google’s YouTube platform’s offering focused [...]
Internet lurkers are everywhere. You may actually be one. What is their role in the online economy?
Will Birchbox outlast the subscription trend?
Apple's increasing use of encryption and resistance to circumventing its own security measures are good for business in the long term.
Sports leagues are realizing their value and capturing it. How will this change the content distribution landscape over the next decade?
In-game purchases and the potential for them to negatively impact gameplay
Building and sustaining a for profit business based on open source software has been attempted by innumerable companies since the dawn of computing. However Red Hat, the company behind Red Hat Linux was the first and for a long time [...]
As voter engagement applications become increasingly widespread in politics, we need greater emphasis on education and participation, and less on winning campaigns.
Google is under attack by a card game developed at Harvard. Can Google survive?
The U.S. eCommerce landscape is littered with remains of public and private companies that were once high flyers. Time and time again, players like Gilt Groupe, Fab.com, Zulily, and Overstock (to name just a few) have failed to live up [...]