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Growth funnels, loops & lifecycle · Working

Indirect network effect

Also called: cross-side network effect

ELI5

Value increases as participation grows on another side of a platform.

Used in conversation

“Can we separate sustainable movement in indirect network effect from a one-off campaign effect?”

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 10

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.