The Yin-Yang of e-Commerce Engines — eBay Paying It Forward
March 5th, 2005
Sohodojo is an independent, non-profit applied R&D lab supporting solo and family-based entrepreneurs collaborating in microenterprise and small business networks. These networks live in the parallel Universe of the Small Is Good World. The function of the Small Is Good World is to act as a governor or moderator to the excesses of the Big Is Good World.
There are many potential entry points into the Small Is Good World. However, we’ve picked one article that we feel is particularly relevant to the focus of this group and to the ‘pay it forward’ dynamic that inspired the creation of the Omidyar Network.
We invite you to read ‘The Yin-Yang of e-Commerce Engines’. The subtitle of this article is ‘How Small is Good Business Webs Will Compete in the Story-driven Marketplaces of the 21st Century’. By way of a teaser, here are the opening paragraphs:
In the first installment of The Nanocorp Primer, we described the challenge of extending the ride on Spaceship Earth as that of finding an effective balance between Small is Good and Big is Good network organizing principles. Neither approach being right nor wrong, just different. Each fulfilling a value-proposition ensuring its survival.
Big is Good dominance throughout the Industrial Era economy has diverted attention from Small is Good economic network dynamics. Big is Good thinking, in other words, has become the ‘common sense’ of how we do business. This unquestioned assumption has given us a blindspot when it comes to designing the e-Commerce engines underlying our web-based business ventures….
We welcome your comments and questions in response to reading this article.
Entry Filed under: Entrepreneurial Community Ecosystems, Globalization 3.0 and the Small Is Good World, Various Other
The Yin-Yang of e-Commerce Engines — eBay Paying It Forward
March 5th, 2005
Sohodojo is an independent, non-profit applied R&D lab supporting solo and family-based entrepreneurs collaborating in microenterprise and small business networks. These networks live in the parallel Universe of the Small Is Good World. The function of the Small Is Good World is to act as a governor or moderator to the excesses of the Big Is Good World.
There are many potential entry points into the Small Is Good World. However, we’ve picked one article that we feel is particularly relevant to the focus of this group and to the ‘pay it forward’ dynamic that inspired the creation of the Omidyar Network.
We invite you to read ‘The Yin-Yang of e-Commerce Engines’. The subtitle of this article is ‘How Small is Good Business Webs Will Compete in the Story-driven Marketplaces of the 21st Century’. By way of a teaser, here are the opening paragraphs:
In the first installment of The Nanocorp Primer, we described the challenge of extending the ride on Spaceship Earth as that of finding an effective balance between Small is Good and Big is Good network organizing principles. Neither approach being right nor wrong, just different. Each fulfilling a value-proposition ensuring its survival.
Big is Good dominance throughout the Industrial Era economy has diverted attention from Small is Good economic network dynamics. Big is Good thinking, in other words, has become the ‘common sense’ of how we do business. This unquestioned assumption has given us a blindspot when it comes to designing the e-Commerce engines underlying our web-based business ventures….
We welcome your comments and questions in response to reading this article.
Entry Filed under: Entrepreneurial Community Ecosystems, Globalization 3.0 and the Small Is Good World, Various Other
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