Studies in digital economy and platform research
Software
The video conferencing market has matured substantially since the pandemic-driven explosion. Quality basics — video resolution, audio clarity, screen sharing — are broadly solved. Differentiation has ...
Startups
Product-market fit gets the most attention in startup advice, but founder-market fit — the match between founders and the problem they are solving — often determines whether product-market fit can be ...
Labor Economics
This analysis examines labor market effects of remote work adoption using administrative employment data from 14 countries between Q1 2020 and Q4 2025. We focus on three outcome variables: wage differ...
Economics
This analysis examines digital payment adoption patterns across 24 emerging economies from 2019 to 2025, using transaction volume data, central bank reports, and consumer surveys. We model adoption cu...
Business
Over the past decade, the way consumers pay for digital services has undergone a fundamental transformation. Subscription models have moved from being a niche offering for software and media to becomi...
Technology
The web that emerged from the 2000s was genuinely open. Independent blogs, forums, and personal sites carried substantial traffic. RSS readers aggregated content without platform intermediation. Searc...
SaaS
Horizontal SaaS markets — CRM, ERP, general productivity — are mature and dominated by established players. The most attractive new opportunities are in vertical SaaS: software built deeply for specif...
Opinion
Most of the regulatory attention and public concern about consumer technology currently focuses on AI. I want to argue that a much more immediate problem — subscription fatigue and the practices that ...
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