Multi-sided platforms must make decisions on both pricing and engineering investment and must continually adjust them as the platform scales over its lifecycle. Engineering investments can be allocated to features that improve a platform’s standalone value, social features to take advantage of...

book 1. Accounting: Introducing financial statements ; Reporting profit or loss in the income statement ; Reporting financial condition in the balance sheet ; Reporting cash sources and uses in the statement of cash flows ; Reading a financial report -- book 2. Operations management: Designing...

Many two-sided platforms (e.g., eBay, Google, iOS, Android, Twitter, Amazon) provide integration tools, such as modular interfaces, interactive development environments, application programming interfaces (APIs), and help desks to reduce the costs and improve the functionality of third party...