Recording of the Everything Marketplaces 2/24 member chat on funding with Bryce from Indie.vc and Janessa White from Simply Eloped.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #042 (2/23) with Sebastien Provencher, who is the Head of Product & Self-Serve Marketplace at Bus.com.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of startups I meet with as a VC: those reinventing an existing market and those creating a new one..

A pitch deck template you can copy & use for your marketplace.

A while back I posted the matrix FJ Labs uses to evaluate marketplace startups..

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #041​​ (2/16) with Joanna McFarland, who's the CEO of HopSkipDrive.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #041​​ (2/16) with Joanna McFarland, who's the CEO of HopSkipDrive.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #041​​ (2/16) with Joanna McFarland, who's the CEO of HopSkipDrive.

It’s remarkable how much new growth we unlocked at Trulia once we understood the counterintuitive truths of pricing..

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #041​​ (2/16) with Joanna McFarland, who's the CEO of HopSkipDrive.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #040 (2/9) with Mike Duboe, who's investing in marketplaces as a General Partner at Greylock.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #040 (2/9) with Mike Duboe, who's investing in marketplaces as a General Partner at Greylock.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #040 (2/9) with Mike Duboe, who's investing in marketplaces as a General Partner at Greylock.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #040 (2/9) with Mike Duboe, who's investing in marketplaces & commerce as a General Partner at Greylock.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #039 (2/2) with David Zamir, who is the CEO of Nana & Nana Academy.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #039 (2/2) with David Zamir, who is the CEO of Nana & Nana Academy.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #039 (2/2) with David Zamir, who is the CEO of Nana & Nana Academy.

Highlight clip from the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #039 (2/2) with David Zamir, who is the CEO of Nana & Nana Academy.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #039 (2/2) with David Zamir, who is the CEO of Nana & Nana Academy.

As your business grows and evolves, your decision will have broad implications for brand identity, growth strategy..

The network effect between supply and demand is the defining feature of a marketplace - sacrificing this in the pursuit...

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #038 (1/29) with Chris Lamontagne, who is the CEO of Teespring.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #037 (1/26) with Kyle Kretschman, who is the Head of Marketplace Economics at Spotify.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #036 (1/22) with Shelby Clark, who is the founder & former CEO of Turo.

Recording of the 1/20 Everything Marketplaces Workshop on marketplace insurance led by Matheus Riolfi.

If you’re a Founder looking to fundraise venture capital, the first thing you need to understand about the process is that it’s far..

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #035 (1/19) with Anand Iyer, who is the former founder & CEO of Trusted.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #034 (1/12) with Brian Nichols, who was previously early at Lyft, Blackbird, and is now investing at Hustle Fund.

Recording of the 1/13 Everything Marketplaces Workshop on Marketplace Legal, Risk, & Compliance led by Jeremy Gottschalk from Marketplace Risk.

Airbnb and Doordash ripped to a collective market cap well over $100B. They're also two more data points in a long trend..

Recording of the 11/4 Everything Marketplaces workshop on building & operating a no code marketplace with Connor Finlayson.

Recording of the 10/21 Everything Marketplaces workshop on fundraising for early stage marketplaces led by Fabrice Grinda from FJ Labs.

Recording of the 9/30 Everything Marketplaces workshop on marketplace payments, considerations for marketplace operators, and more as led by the Stripe team.

Recording of the 7/22 Everything Marketplaces workshop on search & ranking with Zach Conn, who is the founder of Relevance and previously at Hipcamp.

Josh Breinlinger's presentation from the second annual Marketplace Conference on lessons from 3 Billion+ marketplaces..

One of the questions I get a lot is, “Is there any white space left to build a consumer marketplace?” I get it..

The #1 question I got after publishing my Hierarchy of Marketplaces series is how to know if you are on the right track in Level 1 as you wait for your cohorts to mature..

Marketplaces that are able to scale the hierarchy build dominant “winner take most” value. What is required to get there is a focus not on GMV, but on creating happiness..

Lenny present rare insights from 17 of today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more at Refresh Miami.

This is session of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling features Reed Hoffman interviewing Brian Chesky, the Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb.

Last week we hosted our first virtual B2B marketplace meetup, bringing together attendees from all over the world. Here are their top tips and trick for building and scaling B2B marketplaces..

When people think about marketplaces, they usually assume it’s all about matching the demand and supply side. The reality is that it involves so much more than that, particularly when it comes to B2B..

Almost 2 years ago, I published an overview of the European B2B marketplace landscape. Since then, the ecosystem has rapidly expanded. There are now over 300..

The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. I’ve had..

As a VC firm focused on both SaaS and marketplaces, we have not only witnessed the rise of the “SaaS enabled marketplace” hybrid model, but also..

Since Benchmark’s investment in Ebay 15 years ago, we have been fascinated by online marketplaces. Entrepreneurs..

oday, we’ll look at the growth dynamics behind the gig economy, and why some companies flourished while others like TaskRabbit..

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS ..

As investors and advisors in over 60 early-marketplace startups, we’ve paid close attention to what it takes to get marketplaces started. Which comes first..

The six years I spent building products at Airbnb, scaling the marketplace over 100X, transformed how I understand..

On my first day at Airbnb, in early 2011, I walked in to see cofounder Joe Gebbia building..

Joining Erik on this episode are Dan Hockenmaier, Casey Winters, and Lenny Rachitsky discussing how marketplaces have evolved over the last several years.

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and..

Prior to Pinterest, I worked on two sided network businesses my entire career, for apartment rentals (Apartments.com), real..

Frequency creates habit which creates loyalty which creates profit. Uber and Lyft are successful because consumers need..

When building a marketplace, most companies strive to excel on all fronts: high frequency, high retention, and (relatively) high transaction..

From a business standpoint, we know marketplaces are challenging to scale; from a conversational perspective, we’ve come to realize..

We’re often asked by Founders and other investors what we look for in marketplaces. It depends..

Online marketplaces are undergoing a Renaissance as entrepreneurs innovate on an entirely new generation of them. But as..

On the surface, marketplaces seem fairly straightforward — you match supply and demand to make the marketplace work. But..

What makes marketplace business models so attractive, especially as compared to classic ecommerce and retail? Hint..

The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subscriptions..

Marc McCabe, partner at Oyster Capital & former Airbnb, joins Erik on this episode to discuss fundraising..

There might be no more beloved image of the American entrepreneurial spirit than that of neighborhood kids who open a sidewalk lemonade..

A few months ago, I wrote about the questions that we typically ask when evaluating a marketplace opportunity. Now, we have put together a KPI template for marketplaces.

Marketplaces are incredibly powerful. They are taking every aspect of our economy by storm and changing how..

On a recent trip, I experienced something on the Uber app that I don’t recall seeing in recent times. After a minute or so of waiting, I saw this..

Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity

The past and future of marketplace startups -- where are we? Ever since eBay popularized an internet meeting place for buyers..

One of the holy grails in the newco world is to build out a digital platform that successfully serves the needs of a broad number of adjacent..

When building a marketplace, most companies strive to excel on all fronts: high frequency, high retention, and (relatively) high transaction values. Like a..

Every company tracks certain success metrics—commonly accepted criteria for the health of a business. But when it comes to marketplaces, those measurements can..

The most successful companies and products of the internet era have all been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network..

Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way..

Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but..

My company Pared was recently included in an essay from Andrew Chen and Li Jin entitled What’s next for marketplace startups?

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky knows: If you want your company to truly scale, you have to do things that DON'T scale.

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. The assumption was that online platforms would completely automate..

Insights from 17 of today's biggest marketplaces, including Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, Uber and many more.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #004 (5/26) with Juho Makkonen, CEO/Co-founder of Sharetribe.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #005 (6/9) with Angela Tran, General Partner at Version One Ventures.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #005 (6/9) with Angela Tran, General Partner at Version One Ventures.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #005 (6/9) with Angela Tran, General Partner at Version One Ventures.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #005 (6/9) with Angela Tran, General Partner at Version One Ventures.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #006 (6/16) with Andrew Cunningham, VP of Product at Outdoorsy.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #006 (6/16) with Andrew Cunningham, VP of Product at Outdoorsy.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #006 (6/16) with Andrew Cunningham, VP of Product at Outdoorsy.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #006 (6/16) with Andrew Cunningham, VP of Product at Outdoorsy.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #007 (6/23) with Josh Breinlinger.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #007 (6/23) with Josh Breinlinger.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #008 (6/30) with Dave Lu, who is the Co-founder at Pared.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #008 (6/30) with Dave Lu, who is the Co-founder at Pared.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #008 (6/30) with Dave Lu, who is the Co-founder at Pared.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #009 (7/7) with Daniel Doubrovkine, who is at AWS Data Exchange and was previously CTO at Artsy.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #009 (7/7) with Daniel Doubrovkine, who is at AWS Data Exchange and was previously CTO at Artsy.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #009 (7/7) with Daniel Doubrovkine, who is at AWS Data Exchange and was previously CTO at Artsy.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #011 (7/21) with Tom Wang, who is the Chief Product Officer at Turo.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #011 (7/21) with Tom Wang, who is the Chief Product Officer at Turo.

Highlight clip from the full recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #011 (7/21) with Tom Wang, who is the Chief Product Officer at Turo.

Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #012 (7/28) with Lenny Rachitsky, who was previously product & growth at Airbnb.