Comments on: Becoming a Platform http://www.productbeautiful.com/2009/04/29/becoming-a-platform/ Building Product Management from the Ground Up by Paul Young Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:21:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.productbeautiful.com/2009/04/29/becoming-a-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 Dr. Jim Anderson Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:38:51 +0000 http://www.productbeautiful.com/?p=219#comment-1749 Paul, good points all around. In my product management experience the difference between a platform that lives and and one that never seems to take off is how open the company is willing to be. If the owner of the platform can wrap it's head around the fact that providing more functionality to 3rd party developers will allow them to create more and better products, then the platform has a chance. If they are stingy with access to the core platform, then the 3rd party environment will wither and die. Now if those guys over at Twitter could just figure out how to turn their product into a profitable platform, then they'd have the world at their feet! - Dr. Jim Anderson <a href="http://www.TheAccidentalPM.com/" title="The Accidental Product Manager Blog" rel="nofollow">The Accidental PM Blog</a> "Home Of The Billion Dollar Product Manager" Subscribe to The Accidental Product Manager Newsletter now: <a title="Subscribe to The Accidental Product Manger Newsletter" href="http://www.theaccidentalpm.com/subscribe-to-the-accidental-product-manager-newsletter" rel="nofollow">Click Here!</a> Paul, good points all around. In my product management experience the difference between a platform that lives and and one that never seems to take off is how open the company is willing to be. If the owner of the platform can wrap it’s head around the fact that providing more functionality to 3rd party developers will allow them to create more and better products, then the platform has a chance. If they are stingy with access to the core platform, then the 3rd party environment will wither and die.

Now if those guys over at Twitter could just figure out how to turn their product into a profitable platform, then they’d have the world at their feet!

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