Tiers of Enterprise

Tiers of Enterprise refer to classifying the market segmentation of an enterprise based on their tendency to distribute vs. concentrate wealth.

• Tier A: refers to extreme-performing generators and concentrators of wealth, such as typical outcomes of the leading accelerators like Y Combinator. A good example of a Tier A enterprise is Apple or Google. Such enterprises are:

• Closed source at most or all levels, as far as Open Design of their products is concerned in the broad sense
• Focus on market monopolization as one of their key competitiveness strategies
• Lead to extreme concentration of wealth
• Tend to violate basic human rights of privacy
• Favor patent protectionism, trade secrets, secrecy, etc in their culture and operations