Ecosystems

At his now famous TED talk, author and journalist Matt Ridley compared side-by-side an Acheulean hand axe from half a million years ago, and a modern computer mouse.

Market Development Funds (MDF) are one of the most underutilized tools SaaS vendors can use to help channel partners market and sell more effectively.

When I started in partnerships all those years ago, there was no "playbook" to create successful partnerships. This post contains everything I wish I knew.

Understand the concept of a platform, from transportation systems to software frameworks, and learn how they enable innovation and connectivity across various industries.

“Never before have SaaS companies spent SO MUCH for SO LITTLE!” With one LinkedIn line, David Spitz described the biggest challenge in SaaS.

Learn how the Pareto Principle applies to platform ecosystems, and understand how a "less is more" approach to app marketplaces can drive greater focus and success.

It’s been fun to watch the growth of Threads. Earning 20% of the weekly active user base of Twitter within two weeks is impressive, even for Zuck.

Half-way through 2012, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that Facebook was doing a MySpace. In other words, Facebook was on a fast path to slow, painful decline.

In late 2016, whilst leading the Developer Platform team at Intercom, I published a blog post titled “Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile.”