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Darwin’s Finches,20th Century Business,and APIs
Evolve Your Business Model
Sam Ramji @sramjiVP Strategy, Sonoa #EvolveAPI
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DARWIN’S FINCHES
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These birds
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live in this paradise right here
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so what’s the problem?
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The problem is
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they’re on a small island chain
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a long way from anywhere else
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that’s a lot of environmental pressure
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so these finches
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are actually terrific competitors
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and their differences
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were defined by this man
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as successful adaptations.
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The ones you don’t see today
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had unsuccessful adaptations
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and died out.
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A century after
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a team of scientists identified the mechanism of adaptation and evolution
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Twenty years later
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called out the gene as the atomic unit of competition.
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From the perspective of the gene
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the gene is successful if the organism that carries it is successful.
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Switching gears
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20th CENTURY BUSINESS
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In 1910 business was mostly direct
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By the 1930s there was a lot of competition
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But after World War II, there were new environmental pressures
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Many businesses died out.
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Business went from direct to indirect.
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Those businesses who thrived in this transition
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Shared a set of successful adaptations
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Special makes for select retailers
Broad consumer marketing and branding
Distribution exclusives in territory and product allocation
Retailer incentives – slotting fees, joint marketing, tiered volume discounts
Consumer incentives – coupons, in-store events, limited time discounts
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Unified by one idea
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It was not just about selling in
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It was not just about selling inIt was about selling through.
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From the perspective of the business
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The business is successfulIf the retailer that it sells through is successful.
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The real world went from direct to indirect
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It went beyond the corner store.
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The web world is going from direct to indirect.
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It is going beyond the browser.
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That takes us to
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APIs
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“Robert ScobleAuthor of tech blog Scobleizer
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Why?
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Because in a web beyond the browser
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APIs are how people get to your business.
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You need to see things from the perspective of the gene.
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The gene is successful if the organism that carries it is successful.
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You need to see your business from the perspective of the API.
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The API is successful if the application that carries it is successful.
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Successful applications will use many different APIs.
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and they will carry those APIs everywhere
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taking your business with them.
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For the successful companies, 80% of traffic will be coming from beyond the browser.
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Everyone else will have to play in the world that the winners make.
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One last thought on evolution
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Classifications by Oneforty.com
Adaptive Radiation in Twitter Applications
Visualization by Sonoa
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CURRENT
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES
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Mobile
Social Cloud
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They can be independent or they can support each other.
It is up to you to decide if there’s harmony.
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Mobile
CloudSocial
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Your company may be very well adapted to the web, but is it adapted to mobile?
Mobile devices have limited storage and processing and need to be tied in to real-world and social dimensions.
They use APIs to get at location, maps, social graphs, and events.
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Social sites are data services with a critical mass of users, where each new user makes the service better.
You can’t build a new Facebook or Twitter.
But you need to access them, so you use their APIs.
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Cloud computing is not about Amazon.
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Cloud computing is not about Rackspace.
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Cloud computing is not about Microsoft.
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Cloud computing is not about Google.
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Cloud computing is abouthow you reach your customers
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APIs
Mobile
CloudSocial
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We’ve gone from libraries to APIs.
In a cloud computing world people access library-like functionality via an API.
These services are the unit of programming.
Make your API useful and it will be carried to customers you’ve never met.
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CHANGE AGENCY
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I know you get all this already
But how do you get your colleagues to join you in the journey to APIs?
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What’s so damn wrong with the current model?
I like it and it’s working for me.
Plus, I understand it.
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Actually, it’s not working.
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Populations, societies, and markets are becoming more specialized and differentiated.
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Consumer interest groups are fragmented.
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Consumer interest groups are increasingly fragmented.
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Markets are changing so fast that you can’t spend the time to
“market size, focus group, plan, develop, launch, measure and sustain”
because the market niche may be gone or fundamentally changed
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A rapidly expanding range of computing platforms are needed to reach consumers.
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Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley
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This is not a solvable problem nor a winnable game.
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The only way to win is to change the game.
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Thousands of people,
who are not on your payroll,
who are intimately part of each of these changing
interest groups and niches,
must be convinced to carry
your product there for you
in a way that adapts to the dynamic environment
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Thousands of people,
who are not on your payroll,
who are intimately part of each of these changing
interest groups and niches,
must be convinced to carry
your brand there for you
in a way that adapts to the dynamic environment
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Thousands of people,
who are not on your payroll,
who are intimately part of each of these changing
interest groups and niches,
must be convinced to carry
your experience there for you
in a way that adapts to the dynamic environment
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It’s a competition for ideas
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Enable your business to adapt into niches
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Only 1 of 100 will be successful – not a failure rate that you can withstand and remain in business.
You need to encourage that to happen “out there” where the cost structures and speed of business are synchronized.
Be ready to reward or acquire the winners.
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SUCCESSFUL API ADAPTATIONS
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Realizing that developers are your channel
Being recombinant and easily mixed
Unlocking your legacy data into open APIs
Driving new data into your system via open APIs
Supporting your application ecosystem
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Why do you need to attract developers?
developers
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Because applications are the fastest growing and fastest changing organisms in this environment
and they’re built by developers
developers
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Unsuccessful adaptations to this world are based on the following conventional wisdom
developers
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Companies providing APIs to access their business are the supply
developers
Developers who build against those APIs are the demand
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This is exactly wrong.
developers
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Companies providing APIs are the demand
developers
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Companies providing APIs are the demand
They demand developers’ attention and adoption
developers
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Developers building with APIs are the supply
developers
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Developers building with APIs are the supply
They supply innovation and adaptation
developers
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Developers now sit between you and your customers
They are like the retail store in the value chain
developers
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SUCCESSFUL API ADAPTATIONS
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Two rules for marketing your API to developers
1. Don’t assume that developers are clamoring for your API.
2. Don’t assume that developers will want to use your API alone.
recombinant
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Be robust so that your API is recombinant
recombinant
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Mike DebnarVP Retail, Blockbuster
“ This is all about the customers.
To the customer it shouldn’t feel like a disjointed experience. It's like a bank : ATM , teller, website, iPhone app.
This is the price of admission. this is the level of fidelity we need with the customer.
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Visualization by Sonoa
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Rules for robustness
recombinant
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REST first, everything else secondNothing weird: straight XML, straight JSONKeep responses smallKeep calls granularNo custom security schemes: use OAuthDon’t make the developer deal with PCI-complianceSample code wins every timeYou’ll get it wrong the first time – so listen well
recombinant
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Be remixable so that your API is recombinant
recombinant
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Rules for miscibility
recombinant
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Observe your adjacenciesDon’t break social sign-onsIf location matters then match Google MapsDon’t require session managementProvide sample code for expected remixesReward creativity through promotion
recombinant
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SUCCESSFUL API ADAPTATIONS
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Unlocking your legacy data into open APIs
legacy data
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Open APIs for your legacy data means innovation can happen out there
legacy data
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Product Catalogs that integrate with your backendCustomer Preferences based on your interactionsHistorical Purchases through your existing sitesLogistics Information about your supply chainSeasonality on purchases of goods and servicesLocation of historical purchasesUser Recommendations of good and servicesService Providers that you have transacted with
legacy data
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“
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SUCCESSFUL API ADAPTATIONS
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Driving new data into your system via open APIs
new data
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Data is the new business model
Each new user makes the service better
Use the tail to feed the head
new data
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GameSpy Open
One single API for the head and the tailTail policy: limited access for freeHead policy: unlimited access for fee
new data
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SUCCESSFUL API ADAPTATIONS
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Helping your finches succeed
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Help your application ecosystem succeed
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An app is only as strong as its weakest API call
application ecosystem
Your API is a product like any other product
Design for scale of business processes
There is a huge gap between a feature and a business
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John MusserFounder, Programmable Web
“
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Programmable Web
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It is not just about selling inIt is about selling through.
application ecosystem
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Fred WilsonUnion Square Ventures
“
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In
CLOSING
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John MusserFounder, Programmable Web
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