By Güimar Vaca Sittic and Fabrice Grinda Online marketplaces are fascinating. Matching demand and supply seems mundane, but … Continue lendo “The Next Evolution: AI-Powered Marketplaces”

By Guimar Vaca Sittic Most of the successful peer-to-peer marketplaces are purchase-oriented. The graph below categorizes some of … Continue lendo “The problem with rental marketplaces”

By Guimar Vaca Sittic It’s already common knowledge that the latest wave of marketplaces are vertical plays attacking … Continue lendo “Understanding Vertical Marketplace Innovation”

I gave a few speeches last year on building marketplaces. I covered the evolution of marketplaces, what it … Continue lendo “Building Marketplaces”

by Guimar Vaca Sittic Building marketplaces is really hard. The hardest nut to crack is building liquidity: having … Continue lendo “Infrastructure for Marketplaces: The Shovels and Picks of the End-to-End Marketplace Gold Rush!”

Anand Iyer, the Chief Product Officer of Threadflip, just wrote a thoughtful blog post on how to build … Continue lendo “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 … Continue lendo “The Evolution of Marketplaces”

As you can probably imagine given my recent blog post, Thoughts on building successful vertical marketplaces, marketplaces have … Continue lendo “Bill Gurley’s thoughts on marketplaces are a must read!”

As you know, I love operating and investing in marketplaces. It’s been interesting over the years to observe … Continue lendo “Thoughts on building successful vertical marketplaces”