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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner note that most street-level drug dealers earn modest wages at best — they may neglect their schoolwork, and some take straight jobs in addition to make ends meet. Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing.

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The Strategic Value of APIs

Harvard Business Review

Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. Outside of health care, Watson is already creating new ecosystems for IBM in radically new areas such as recipe making, shopping, and travel. In the classic HBR article “Marketing Myopia, ” Theodore Levitt asked a provocative question: “What business are you really in?”

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