9 Best Articles in 2021
medium.com
Blockchain-based Machine Learning Marketplaces
medium.com
9 min read · From 2018 · Machine learning models trained on data from blockchain-based marketplaces have the potential to create the world’s most powerful…
First Round
How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber and Airbnb Build Trust to Achieve Liquidity
First Round
~12 min read · From 2015 · Anand Iyer, former Head of Product at Threadflip, on how marketplaces can build trust in order to build their businesses.
a16z
Online Marketplaces
a16z
4 min read · From 2017 · We’re continuing to see tremendous innovation in marketplaces. The first generation of net companies saw a few big horizontal marketplace winners like eBay and Craigslist. But entrepreneurs are…
Sarah Tavel
The Hierarchy of Marketplaces — Introduction and Level 1
Sarah Tavel
7 min read · 2020-06-16 · A framework for building enduring marketplaces.
Stripe
Andrew Chen on Marketplaces
Stripe
~15 min read · From 2019 · Andrew Chen shares key considerations, crossroads, and predictions for online marketplaces.
Bill Gurley
All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces
Bill Gurley
8 min read · From 2013
Andrew 🇺🇸
What's next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that's what.
Andrew 🇺🇸
~13 min read · From 2018 · [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? We answer, emphatically, yes! Am excited to share a vision on the past and future…
NFX
How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built with Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder & CEO of Thumbtack
NFX
20+ min read · 2020-01-05 · NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder & CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.
Andrew 🇺🇸
How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace
Andrew 🇺🇸
7 min read · From 2018 · Marketplaces are easily underestimated When marketplaces get big, they can get really big. Some of the biggest tech successes ever – eBay, Airbnb, Alibaba, Uber – are marketplaces worth tens of billions of dollars each. And yet marketplaces often start small, in niches and weird corners of the Internet. As we all know, when eBay […]
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Guardian Tech
Rise of the Holmies: the merch inspired by the Theranos ‘girlboss’
Guardian Tech
3 min read · Oct 2nd · Hundreds of listings on online marketplaces sell merchandise venerating disgraced CEO Elizabeth Holmes
The Block
Adobe partners with OpenSea and other NFT marketplaces to display content credentials
The Block
2 min read · Oct 26th · Adobe is introducing a Photoshop feature that allows users to prepare images as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which will include content credentials that marketplaces like OpenSea can display on their…
Cointelegraph
Adobe offers users the ability to verify NFT marketplace creations through metadata
Cointelegraph
1 min read · Oct 26th · Adobe said it would be partnering with major nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplaces including OpenSea, KnownOrigin, and SuperRare to allow users to verify the authenticity of the digital content
Crunchbase News
A Checklist Of Legal Considerations For The NFT Marketplace
Crunchbase News
5 min read · Nov 9th · This checklist should help those involved in creating NFT marketplaces navigate the legal metaverse.
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NFX
19 Tactics to Solve the Chicken-or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace
NFX
5 min read · From 2018 · An inside look at 19 tactics top marketplaces have used to solve the chicken-or-egg problem and kickstart growth.
TechCrunch
Shogun, a front end e-commerce page builder, nabs $67.5M as retailers look for alternatives to marketplaces
TechCrunch
4 min read · Jun 30th · E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods to those consumers, accounting globally for 47% of all e-commerce…
medium.com
LinkedIn is the New Craigslist
medium.com
~19 min read · From 2019 · The Coming Hyper-verticalization of Labor Marketplaces
Greylock
Four Strategies to Win Big with Low Frequency Marketplaces
Greylock
5 min read · From 2017 · Frequency creates habit which creates loyalty which creates profit. Uber and Lyft are successful because consumers need to get from A to B…
marketplacestack.com
Marketplace Stack - A collection of infrastructure tools for online marketplaces
marketplacestack.com
6 min read · From 2016 · A collection of infrastructure tools for online marketplaces
Boston Consulting Group
How Online Marketplaces Can Power Employment in Africa
Boston Consulting Group
~16 min read · From 2019 · The internet has driven economic growth in the developed world for quite some time. However critics lament that online retail is putting brick-and-mortar stores out of business and that gig-economy platforms are displacing payrolled workers. Less so in Africa, a Boston Consulting Group report concludes: In underdeveloped and underserved markets, the benefits of online marketplaces vastly exceed potential drawbacks. The report provides a road map for policy makers, economic development consultants and online business owners on how to capture the potential of e-commerce to transform African economies and societies for the better.
atelier.net
The Virtual Economy
atelier.net
3 min read · 2020-05-18 · The Virtual Economy is a system of sophisticated platforms, fledgling marketplaces, volatile assets, nixers & pioneers that exist solely in virtual environments.
medium.com
The Case For B2B Marketplaces — The 4 Kinds of B2B Marketplaces
medium.com
2 min read · From 2019 · At Point Nine, we’ve been very enthusiastic about B2B marketplaces for quite some time now — to the point that we organized a conference…
a16z
Where the Opportunities Are in Regulated Marketplaces: Managed Marketplaces
a16z
~13 min read · From 2019 · There might be no more beloved image of the American entrepreneurial spirit than that of neighborhood kids who open a sidewalk lemonade stand on a hot summer day. With a little bit of “capital” fro…
