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- October 2013
- HBS Case Collection
Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy
By: Andrei Hagiu
Abstract
This note offers an analysis of four fundamental strategic decisions and associated tradeoffs that set MSPs apart from other types of businesses (e.g. product firms) and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. In the last section I also discuss an important boundary condition: when is the MSP business model dominated by related — but distinct — business models?
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Citation
Hagiu, Andrei. "Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 714-436, October 2013.