9 Best Articles in 2022
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Blockchain-based Machine Learning Marketplaces
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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…
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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.
Reader View · Shared by 52, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Mathias Böhm, Courtney Bolton ★, Manos Hatzimalonas, Chikara Shimizu/清水力, Andrew Chen 🎮
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Online Marketplaces
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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…
Reader View · Shared by 51, including Dominik Grolimund, Jeff Jordan, Philip Stehlik, Thomas Power, Andreas Brenner, Andrew Chen 🎮, Philippe Gauvin
Sarah Tavel
The Hierarchy of Marketplaces — Introduction and Level 1
Sarah Tavel
7 min read · 2020-06-16 · A framework for building enduring marketplaces.
Reader View · Shared by 42, including ₵BZ, René Pfitzner, Mark Kaigwa, Greg Bettinelli, Roger Ehrenberg, 🇺🇦 Alex Iskold | 1kproject.org
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Andrew Chen on Marketplaces
Stripe
~15 min read · From 2019 · Andrew Chen shares key considerations, crossroads, and predictions for online marketplaces.
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Chris Schultz ✌️, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power
Bill Gurley
All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces
Bill Gurley
8 min read · From 2013
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Andrew Chen 🎮
What's next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that's what.
Andrew Chen 🎮
~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…
Reader View · Shared by 330, including Fabrice Grinda, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund, Reto Laemmler, Patrik Breitenmoser, Mathias Böhm, Jonathan Kogan, Martin Rajcan 🇺🇦🕊, Thomas Pleil, ErmanTaylan.eth, Mark Kaigwa, Scott Brinker, Hampus Jakobsson, Bertrand Maltaverne, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, justin 🚀, Glenn Oberholzer, Greg Meyer, Cyril Coste 🥇#DigitalTransformation
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How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built with Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder & CEO of Thumbtack
NFX
20+ min read · From 2020 · NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder & CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.
Reader View · Shared by 30, including René Pfitzner
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Are sports cards the future of retail investing?
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6 min read · May 16th · A deep dive into the next wave in consumer fintech — private asset marketplaces
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A Deep Dive into Consumer Marketplaces
GV
1 min read · Mar 28th · GV has invested more than $500M in consumer marketplace companies, beginning in 2010 when we led Turo’s Series A, and spiking in 2014 when we backed Uber, which still holds the record as our largest…
Shared by 12, including M.G. Siegler
The New York Times
Can Probiotics Boost Vaginal Health?
The New York Times
5 min read · Apr 27th · Pills and suppositories that promise to balance the vaginal microbiome are lining drugstore shelves and online marketplaces. But are they backed by science?
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Timothy Caulfield
Sifted
How sustainable are secondhand fashion marketplaces?
Sifted
8 min read · Apr 15th · Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world — but are pre-owned clothes the answer?
Reader View · Shared by 7, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
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Andrew Chen 🎮
How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace
Andrew Chen 🎮
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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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.
Reader View · Shared by 77, including ron boger, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, janfsauer, Mathias Böhm, Matthias Kahr, Vikram Dutt, Andreas Stegmann, Ha Duong, Nir Eyal
TechCrunch
Shogun, a front end e-commerce page builder, nabs $67.5M as retailers look for alternatives to marketplaces
TechCrunch
4 min read · 2021-06-30 · 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…
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Real Marsha Wright®, Michael Fauscette, Jonathan Kogan
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LinkedIn is the New Craigslist
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~19 min read · From 2019 · The Coming Hyper-verticalization of Labor Marketplaces
Reader View · Shared by 64, including Dez S. Papp, Remo Uherek, Mark Kaigwa, Quim, Sachin Rekhi, Bri Kimmel, Mathias Böhm, Benedict Evans
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…
Reader View · Shared by 54, including Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Casey Winters, Quim, osioke.eth, Andreas Stegmann
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Marketplace Stack - A collection of infrastructure tools for online marketplaces
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6 min read · From 2016 · A collection of infrastructure tools for online marketplaces
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The Virtual Economy
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3 min read · From 2020 · The Virtual Economy is a system of sophisticated platforms, fledgling marketplaces, volatile assets, nixers & pioneers that exist solely in virtual environments.
Reader View · Shared by 134, including Bri Kimmel, Robert Scoble, LucJodet.eth 🍌🇫🇷 SPKZ.io, derekbrown.eth • 2815.eth, Dr Joana Casaca Lemos, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mark Kaigwa, hiten.eth, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, Vinny Lingham, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Balaji Srinivasan, Zoe Scaman, Christian Surchi
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.
Casey Winters
Four Strategies to Win Big with Low Frequency Marketplaces
Casey Winters
9 min read · From 2018 · Low frequency marketplaces are hard to build because they cease to create habits. I talk about some strategies that can create habits even with low frequency.
Reader View · Shared by 26, including Andrew Chen 🎮, Nir Eyal, Anand Sanwal
