Over-innovation limits Facebook’s future

Facebook has an innovation problem for which it compensates by “over-innovation” of existing products. That strategy backfires, hurting the company’s reputation, making it hard to expand into business software with its recently announced Facebook@Work, a tool for messaging and collaboration, The company is successful because of its first mover advantage, networking effects and the backing […]

Uber is not a tech startup

Bloomberg columnist Katie Brenner wonders “what happens when you’re pushed out of the tech startup club”, but Uber, a smartphone app to order a taxi, is just another 21th century company. Is Uber a tech startup or is it a company that acts as intermediary between passengers and drivers, using custom software to take their […]