10 strategies & examples for how you can use AI to solve the cold start problem.

Grant Singleton shares 15+ examples for how marketplaces can leverage AI/agents.

We're excited to share 900+ founders have completed Marketplace School.

A recap & pictures from our Marketplace Chat & Meetup in Los Angeles.

We're sharing an overview of our early-stage marketplace resources.

We're excited to announce Grant Singleton as our newest Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR).

Meet Martin Hunt from Garage, a marketplace for buying & selling emergency vehicles, equipment, & more.

Sonia Nagar shares a guest blog post on the pricing advantages for marketplaces in uncertain markets.

A recap & pictures from our August Los Angeles meetup at a16z.

Sonia Nagar shares a guest blog post on the accounting basics for marketplaces.

Meet Lisa Kagan from Buddy, a B2B marketplace for buying & selling scrap metal.

A recap & pictures from our Marketplace Chat & London Meetup.

Matt Bendett shares a guest blog post on how to prevent marketplace disintermediation with AI.

We're highlighting 5+ founders sharing about their marketplace pivots.

Meet Ben Moore from GPU Trader, a marketplace for renting GPU compute capacity.

We're highlighting 8+ founders sharing tips for marketplace founders & advice.

Grant Singleton shares a guest blog post with 10+ ways they've leveraged AI at PangoBooks.

Our Community AI Agent helps founders with questions on building, launching, & scaling marketplaces.

Meet Louis Long from Conquer, a marketplace for discovering pickleball games nearby.

A recap & pictures from our March New York City meetup at FJ Labs.

Blake Hirt shares a guest post covering the importance of demand promiscuity for marketplaces.

We're highlighting 8+ founders & leaders sharing how marketplaces can leverage AI.

Meet Ajith Govind from Cravd, a marketplace for hiring personal home chefs.

We're announcing our Everything Marketplaces team plans & memberships.

We're highlighting 5+ founders & leaders sharing about marketplace disintermediation.

We're excited to announce that Erika Khanna has joined the Everything Marketplaces team to help lead the community.

We're highlighting 5+ founders sharing marketplace team building & hiring tips.

Meet Ana Malhotra from Rome, a yard-sharing marketplace for dogs.

We're highlighting 10+ founders sharing their fundraising learnings & tips.

We're growing the Everything Marketplaces team and hiring for multiple roles.

We're highlighting 8+ founders & leaders sharing about marketplace expansion.

Colin Gardiner shares a guest blog post on how AI is impacting marketplaces, along with the future of marketplaces being agent-led.

We're highlighting 5+ founders & leaders sharing about marketplace experimentation & testing.

We're sharing our 2024 Recap & Year In Review for the Everything Marketplaces community.

We're highlighting 4 founders & leaders sharing how they built marketplace demand.

Meet Mark Chen from CNaught, a marketplace for carbon credits.

We're highlighting 5+ founders sharing how they built & scaled marketplace supply.

We're sharing our Everything Marketplaces Winter 2024 Product & Community Update.

We're highlighting 5+ founders sharing how they solved the cold start problem.

We're highlighting some of our recent meetups in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, & London.

We're highlighting 10 our past group chats with founders sharing how they started their marketplaces.

Matt Bendett shares a guest blog post with some of his key learnings & lessons with marketplace expansion.

Mason Smith shares a guest blog post helping highlight deep dives into Marketplace Trust & Safety.

Blake Hirt shares a guest post covering the importance of marketplace frequency & Average Order Value (AOV).

We're highlighting past deep dives into marketplaces with female founders & leaders.

Danny Martinez shares a guest post covering common mistakes & learnings around marketplace expansion.

We're excited to announce that 500+ founders have now completed Marketplace School.

We're highlighting past deep dives into leading SaaS Enabled Marketplaces like Outdoorsy, ResQ, Eventbrite, Slice, & more.

Blake Hirt shares a guest post covering network effects, which also highlights the importance of having strong network effects.

Meet Chen Li from Palmstreet, a live shopping app for plants.

A recap & pictures from our September Los Angeles meetup, which was at Crexi.

We're highlighting past deep dives into leading B2B Marketplaces like Flexport, Reibus, Alibaba B2B, & more.

Danny Martinez shares a guest blog, which is a guide founders can use for creating a job description.

We're excited to announce Blake Hirt is our newest community Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR).

A recap & pictures from our August San Francisco meetup, which was at Headline.

Blake Hirt shares a guest blog post expanding on the importance of solving a persistent & painful problem.

Meet Tyler Maloney from TeachMe.To, a marketplace for booking 1:1 private lessons.

Ravi Mehta shares a guest blog post covering tips for finding & hiring your first Product Manager.

We're sharing an overview of the marketplace resources that we've created for our community members.

Blake Hirt shares a guest blog post diving into how activation is often one of the most underrated growth levers for marketplaces.

Today is our first anniversary for Marketplace Capital, our early stage venture fund.

Blake Hirt shares a guest blog post covering some of the specific criteria for successful marketplaces.

We're sharing an overview of our events (online & offline) that we have for the community every week.

Ravi Mehta shares a guest blog post covering the Marketplace Capture Framework, which can be used by marketplaces to capture and keep demand.

A recap & pictures from our June London meetup, which was at Stride VC.

David Lifson shares a guest blog post on commodity vs. non-commodity marketplaces.

We're growing our community Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR) program & looking for more EIRs.

A recap & pictures from our April San Francisco meetup, which was at Craft Ventures.

10 tips for first-time marketplace founders & essential marketplace advice.

A recap & pictures from our April New York City meetup, which was at FJ Labs.

We've shared our first 25 episodes for the Everything Marketplaces podcast, reaching almost 30,000 listeners.

A recap & pictures from our February San Francisco meetup, which was at Headline.

We're highlighting past deep dives into leading real estate & housing marketplaces.

A recap & pictures from our January London meetup, which was at Stride VC.

Danny Martinez shares a guest blog post & deep dive into considerations with marketplace expansion.

2023 was a big year for the Everything Marketplaces community. Here's our 2023 Recap & Year In Review to share more about it.

Danny Martinez shares a guest blog post as part 3/3 on his expansion series posts, covering other considerations with expansion.

We're highlighting 5 of our popular podcast episodes with marketplace founders & leaders.

Danny Martinez shares a guest blog post as part 2/3 on his expansion series posts, covering specific sales considerations with expansion.

A recap & pictures from our November San Francisco meetup, which was at Lightspeed.

Danny Martinez shares a guest blog post as part 1/3 on his expansion series posts, covering specific marketing considerations with expansion.

A recap & pictures from our October London meetup, which was at Stride VC.

Andrew Blachman shares a guest blog post on his learnings from operating ticketing marketplaces around why distribution is key for marketplaces.

We're excited to announce Danny Martinez our new community Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR), where he will be working with & helping support founders.

A recap & pictures from our September San Francisco community coworking day & meetup.

We're helping highlight some of our deep dives into ticketing marketplaces with founders & leaders from StubHub, SeatGeek, & Ticketmaster.

We're excited to launch the Everything Marketplaces podcast, which is an audio version of our group chats that we have with marketplace founders & leaders every week.

Colin Gardiner shares a guest blog post on the current state of fundraising for marketplace startups in 2023 with valuation data, investor insights, & more.

We're helping highlight 5 leading female marketplace investors that we suggest getting to know.

We're excited to start hosting community coworking days every month for marketplace founders & teams to connect, get more support, & network with others in person.

Meet Chase Pion from Bezel, a marketplace for authenticated luxury watches.

More about our online events every week for the community like group chats, office hours, workshops, & more.

We're excited to announce Marketplace Capital, our $10M venture fund.

We've created a list of 10 top early stage marketplace investors that we suggest following & getting to know.

Danny Martinez shares a post on how to get your marketplace flywheel spinning with your first marketplace customers.

The power of using purpose-built payments with B2B marketplaces to deliver more value to your customers.

A recap & pictures from our Marketplace Chat & Meetup in LA with special guests Andrew Chen, Olivia Moore, & Aziz Alghunaim.

Colin Gardiner shares a guest blog post breaking down marketplace revenue, which also covers topics like how GMV can be a vanity metric, why take rate is so important, & more.

Danny Martinez shares a deep dive post on why it's important to have high quality marketplace supply & even unique listings at the early stages.

A recap & pictures from our May San Francisco meetup, which was at Headline Ventures.