Industries, Marketplaces

I have launched 5 marketplaces, two successful and three where I learned valuable lessons in: > How to show proof of concept on a very low budget, > What code base to build each type of marketplace on, > Where to spend your budget at each stage of the launch. Simply send me the gist, a URL of a direct competitor or similar platform, your budget, timeline, and I will break the entire process down for you and include actionable steps to get it done.

I have built and grown marketplaces, most recently with Lyft (ride sharing) and Skillshare (education), as well as many e-commerce businesses based on Magento, Wordpress, or Shopify. Whether they're two-sided or local, many marketplaces have a cold-start problem. I can help you figure out a path towards achieving network effects and a healthy marketplace.

Want to start an online marketplace? Don't know what to do next or how to do it? I will advise you to budget, timeline, create, manage and monetize an online marketplace site and mobile app. I will help you break the entire process down for you in milestones with actionable steps to get it done.

I'll teach you everything I know about building a multimillion dollar mobile marketplace including acquiring customers, balancing supply and demand, go-to-market strategy, raising capital and more.

Trying to build the next Uber or Airbnb? Need some advice on how to acquire, manage, and delight both sides of a two-sided marketplace? As the Product Manager at a seed-stage marketplace startup, I've had the experience to learn the ins and outs of building and optimizing an early stage marketplace.

Marketplaces are hard... really hard. I founded one in one of the most conservative and highly regulated sectors ever--legal services. When we chat I'll tell you everything you need to know so you don't make the same mistakes I did including solving the chicken and egg problem, getting both sides of the platform to interact, what to spend your marketing dollars on and more...

I founded a marketplace startup called Lorem that connects business owners with freelance web developers & designers. Going from zero to thousands of users on both supply & demand, we've learned the shortcuts to take & mistakes to avoid in building a marketplace from scratch.

in the past 6 years I have built 2 crowdsourcing platforms, raised over $3.5m in seed funding and Series A for both. One of them was acquired in 2013. At both platforms I was product owner and responsible for all functional specifications, hiring teams and strategy. I was also responsible for growth hacking our crowdsourcing communities. Evly is a drag-and-drop crowdsourcing site builder with tools to embed every challenge into Facebook pages. In 5 minutes anyone can create any type of crowdsourcing site with no experience whatsoever and engage fans in Facebook and across the web. Springleap is a marketplace of over 180,000 advertising agency experts for the world's best insights and copy-testing. Each presented challenges ranging from user acquisition strategies through to complex issues such as vetting the crowd and writing complex algorithms to weed out fraudulent voting styles.

I've owned customer retention in all of my roles since 2009. Retention efforts for dating sites are a key component of revenue and profit.

I am one of the leading experts in the rideshare industry and run the largest blog for drivers at TheRideshareGuy.com. I've been quoted by the media in hundreds of different articles and have worked with many of the top start-ups and established companies in the on demand economy. My blog is visited by hundreds of thousands of drivers a month and I help companies bridge the gap between supply side challenges and plans for growth.

As the founder of the hottest online art marketplace, I have extensive experience as to how to create, launch, and build an e-commerce platform.

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B2C, B2B, P2P, single-sided, double-sided, etc. Marketplaces come in various flavours. I've worked on 3 startups that have dealt with various marketplaces. We can figure it out together for your startup as well!

Airline pilot for 7 years and Multimedia bachelor by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, I always thought of myself as an entrepreneur. Some of my ventures include: - Computer Based Trainer that teaches first time pilots to fly their first airplane. - Travel Cards, a universal translator for travelers, which created some buzz in the travel industry, but never launched. - Picto Connection, a several times awarded collaborative platform that uses big data and artificial intelligence to allow people with communication disabilities communicate satisfactorily. - Sharing Academy, a peer-to-peer tutoring marketplace where university students can earn an extra income by sharing the knowledge they acquired in previous semesters to other students from the same university. It became the Best App of the World at Mobile World Congress 2016 out of 9,000 competing apps from all over the world. I am a passionate person, eager to question the status quo willing to help you success with your marketplace. During the last 3 years I advised more than 50 startups to launch their marketplaces. The topics I cover are based on The Lean Marketplace (of which I am the Editor): – PHASE I – GETTING STARTED – 1. What you need to know before starting your marketplace business 2. How to come up with a great marketplace idea 3. How to choose the right business model 4. How to avoid disintermediation 5. How to set your commission 6. How to validate your idea before building the platform – PHASE II – BUILDING A PLATFORM – 7. How to build a Minimum Viable Platform 8. How to communicate your value proposition to your users 9. How to match your customers with the right providers 10. How to design your marketplace’s transaction flow – PHASE III – LAUNCHING AND GROWING THE MARKETPLACE – 11. How to build the initial supply 12. How to launch your marketplace 13. How to grow your marketplace 14. How to measure your success: The key marketplace metrics 15. How to build trust in your marketplace 16. How to turn your marketplace into a community If you like the plan, I'll be happy to guide you through your process of launching your marketplace!