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What is Ecosystem Economics™?

Ecosystem Economics™ is the framework which underpins entrepreneurcountry Global and Ariadne Capital’s investment business. At a high level, the companies who organise the business model for their ecosystem win big.

Because of the network-orientation of business and life today, nothing in business is linear anymore. There is a multi-stakeholder network at the core of every business model.  No matter what industry you are in, you are participating in a transaction, not merely buying or selling to another entity.

The individual’s data – whether financial services, health, mobile telecoms – are powering many of the services today. The individual should have an economic upside for the use of their data.

The companies which are reshaping their industries are leveraging consumer data in order to provide better services, and organising the economics for each party in the core transaction of their industry.

These articles explain Ecosystem Economics™ in detail as well as Chapter 4 of Welcome to entrepreneurcountry:

http://economia.icaew.com/business/march2013/in-a-digital-age-the-network-is-king
http://economia.icaew.com/opinion/august12/the-era-of-ecosystem-economics

Case Studies

Over the past 12 years, Ariadne Capital & entrepreneurcountry have been able to back game changing companies. The defining attribute these companies have displayed has been their ability to create an ecosystem where everyone wins. Ecosystem Economics™ TM™ is the enabiling force that allows for business to thrive across the globe. Below are examples of Ecosystem Economics™ TM™ in action:

Monitise

by entrepreneurcountry

Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) is the global trusted enabler in Mobile Money solutions, with proven technology and expertise to enable financial institutions and other service providers to offer a wide range of mobile banking, payments and commerce services to their customers in developed, emerging and hybrid territories.

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SoundOut

by entrepreneurcountry

SoundOut is a web based music technology and data company using crowdsourcing and the wisdom of crowds to predict the market potential and demographic resonance of new music.

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Seamless

by entrepreneurcountry

Seamless is a great example of Ecosystem Economics™ in action in the financial services sector. Seamless are a global mobile payments company that provides prepaid top-up systems and mobile payment services for mobile operators, distributors, retailers and consumers.

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Digital Stores

by entrepreneurcountry

Digital Stores is an online retailer and leading supplier of complete end-to-end e-commerce and fulfilment services in the UK. It specialises in running online stores for personality and character brands in the music and entertainment industry.

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Lime & Tonic

by entrepreneurcountry

Lime & Tonic is a business that used the model of Ecosystem Economics™ in order to disrupt the retail and leisure market. Lime & Tonic provides affluent consumers with access to unique social activities and dining experiences in the world’s most dynamic cities, in the form of a social agenda.

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PayCorp Agrees Bright Office Payments Deal

Written by entrepreneurcountry on Wednesday, 16 October 2013.

Payments solutions business Pay Corporation, part of Boxhill Technologies PLC, has signed an agreement with CRM software business Bright Office, further extending its reach outside of the gaming and lottery sectors.

An Open Door To Funding For Entrepreneurs

Written by entrepreneurcountry on Tuesday, 15 October 2013.

On Friday 1st November, the Crowdfunding: Deep Impact Conference will be offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear from the founders of various crowdfunding platforms, as well as meet with likeminded business owners and investors. 

The Growth and Rebirth of Entrepreneurship in the Arab World

Written by Joe Haslam on Tuesday, 24 September 2013.

Talking with Entrepreneurship students about strategy is like talking to millennials about pension plans. Thanks, but no thanks. It doesn’t help that textbooks on strategy are on the whole quite dull affairs (few, if any, people on their death bed request a copy of Robert E. Grant´s Contemporary Strategy Analysis).

Monitise

Written by Adam Baldwin on Tuesday, 24 September 2013.

Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) is the global trusted enabler in Mobile Money solutions, with proven technology and expertise to enable financial institutions and other service providers to offer a wide range of mobile banking, payments and commerce services to their customers in developed, emerging and hybrid territories.

SoundOut

Written by Adam Baldwin on Tuesday, 24 September 2013.

SoundOut is a web based music technology and data company using crowdsourcing and the wisdom of crowds to predict the market potential and demographic resonance of new music.

Seamless

Written by Adam Baldwin on Tuesday, 24 September 2013.

Seamless is a great example of Ecosystem Economics™ in action in the financial services sector. Seamless are a global mobile payments company that provides prepaid top-up systems and mobile payment services for mobile operators, distributors, retailers and consumers.

Is Software Now Eating The Rag Trade?

Written by Joe Haslam on Sunday, 22 September 2013.

Even by the standards of Silicon Valley, where dramatic predictions are as common as hot dinners, to say that “Retail is Dead” is still quite shocking. What, you mean dead dead, not just say, resting? Yes, that is what Marc Andreessen of Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz recently told PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy.

Healthcare Desperately Needs More Entrepreneurs

on Sunday, 22 September 2013.

At first glance the title of this piece may sound counter-intuitive to some readers. After all, there have been phenomenal advances seen in healthcare over the last two decades. Advances in diagnostic processes and treatments have given us state of the art scanners and robotic surgery. The development of new drug therapies have enabled physicians to substantially extend life, and sometimes even offer cure, to those with previously terminal diagnoses. So surely everything is ticking along nicely in the land of healthcare innovation?

Is it Time for an Entrepreneur Political Party?

Written by Joe Haslam on Sunday, 22 September 2013.

So yes, it looks like we were all had. Played like pianos, eaten without salt. I´m talking about the Entrepreneur ecosystem in Spain, a sector assiduously courted by both sides before the general election in Spain last November.

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