A startup-focused blog that collects advice on product management, marketing, business development, and platform and network-effect business models.
Commenters link it for its yearly best-post compilations, its analysis of platform network effects, and its advice on pitching to investors.
Well, that is understandable due the network effects business model[1]: a platform must be proprietary—controlled by a single company—for its provider to capture value created through network growth
Of course, there is the alternative: sharing the market than conducting an expensive winner-take-all battle, but as the current market leader, it surely wasn't in Facebook's intereset.
[1] http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/07/business-model-analysis-part-2.html
Ugh. Yes, 10-20-30 is what most VCs ask for. However, it's not what works in a first meeting. You can't demo a product and sell a dream with 10/20/30.
http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2009/12/pitching.html
http://www.kartme.com/blog/pitching-without-powerpoint-8-tips-first-meeting
I guess this is the article that's really of interest:
http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2014/01/managing-startups-best-blog-posts-of.html
Although the Spotify article is particularly interesting to me