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The Changing Economics of App Development

Harvard Business Review

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Album sales are down 14%, single downloads are down 11%, and only the streaming services are up, 28%. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. Photo by Mark Fiore. How do musicians make money today? of course).