In Part 1 we described these lessons:
- Information centric businesses are obvious targets. (E.g. insurance, mortgage lending, media, telecom, real estate brokerage).
- Since network size is the measure of success, it is more likely these will be B2C.
- Fragmented industries are good targets.
- Best of all find fragmented markets that are under served.
- Yes there is competition among emerging platforms so first movers who execute well are favored.
- Don’t wait to get started or you could end a commodity in someone else’s network platform.
Now let’s continue:
- In addition to fragmented markets, look for markets with a large imbalance of knowledge between buyer and seller.