by Guimar Vaca Sittic Building marketplaces is really hard. The hardest nut to crack is building liquidity: having … Continuer la lecture de « Infrastructure for Marketplaces: The Shovels and Picks of the End-to-End Marketplace Gold Rush! »

As an entrepreneur and investor, I am fortunate enough to collaborate with startups on a regular basis, learning … Continuer la lecture de « One Step Closer To Streamlining the Car Buying and Selling Process »

The used car industry is massive. There are 40 million used cars sold per year in the US … Continuer la lecture de « The used car buying and selling process is broken and we are going to fix it! »

As you can see from my article on The Evolution of Marketplaces, Craigslist is facing a great unbundling. … Continuer la lecture de « Recommendations for Craigslist »

Anand Iyer, the Chief Product Officer of Threadflip, just wrote a thoughtful blog post on how to build … Continuer la lecture de « Fantastic article on how to build trust in modern marketplaces to achieve liquidity »

In the early days of the web Craigslist’s horizontal listing based marketplace was all things to all people … Continuer la lecture de « The Evolution of Marketplaces »

Bitcoin confuses people. They don’t grasp what it is and how it works. The two presentations below are … Continuer la lecture de « Great presentations on Bitcoin »

I have had the privilege to see Henry do his “Mary Meeker” impersonation as he effectively flies through … Continuer la lecture de « Henry Blodget’s Slides on the Future of Digital: 2013 are a must read »

It seems a foregone conclusion that 3D printing will change the world. It’s already revolutionized prototyping, and we’re … Continuer la lecture de « 3D Printing will change the world »

As you can probably imagine given my recent blog post, Thoughts on building successful vertical marketplaces, marketplaces have … Continuer la lecture de « Bill Gurley’s thoughts on marketplaces are a must read! »

Bill Gurley is a partner at Benchmark and an investor and on the board of Uber, OpenTable and … Continuer la lecture de « Great article on optimal take rates in Internet businesses »

As you know, I love operating and investing in marketplaces. It’s been interesting over the years to observe … Continuer la lecture de « Thoughts on building successful vertical marketplaces »

What is surprising about this business to me is how high the take rate is. Most marketplace business … Continuer la lecture de « Could it be that stock photography is the best business ever? »

In the past few months, we’ve been approached by almost 10 companies who want to be the Pinterest … Continuer la lecture de « Why we won’t invest in Pinterest clones »

The last few months have been difficult for Netflix. Ignoring the Qwikster disaster, the world seems to have … Continuer la lecture de « The Irony of Netflix »