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Business Model Leverage

Brett Bivens venturedesktop.substack.com

models based on memberships (Zipcar, Bag Borrow or Steal), service fees (Airbnb, Zopa), and micropayments for usage (BIXI, BabyPlays) being established. Also, as companies start to redefine themselves as acting as the bridge between individual users and the community, we will trust them more, and as a result interact with them in different ways. Th

Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he argues, a “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what he has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the e... See more

Kyle Chayka • Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker

Consumer SaaS

Insights + examples on building consumer software subscription businesses

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The rise of community-curated knowledge networks

Sari Azout sariazout.medium.com

When you successfully build a unique and differentiated category (in which the reader is the Main Character, not you), you can create a dozen different revenue streams giving readers more of what they love [category] in a dozen different ways. For example: Digital Products (books, eBooks, courses, etc.) Physical Products (t-shirts, coffee mugs, col

Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard

At Early Majority, the $358 fee gets you a lifetime membership that provides early access to new products, heavily discounted pricing, events and a Discord server where you can chat with other members.The plan is to keep iterating on its current collection of outdoor wear based on member feedback and to introduce new products only when they identif... See more

Thingtesting • Why more direct-to-consumer brands are exploring membership models

they were able to significantly improve retention rates by replacing a month-by-month plan with a new three-month subscription.

Sean Ellis • Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Gibson Biddle, former VP of Product Management at Netflix, called this approach part of their “DHM model”, which stands for Delighting customers in Hard-to-copy, Margin-enhancing ways.