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Building and Investing in Marketplaces
- This is because marketplaces are not a race to growing GMV, they are a race to creating the most value for both the supply and demand side (liquidity). When you start in a small, focused market, it’s a lot easier to build liquidity and get to a meaningful percentage of that market, becoming the best place for both the supply and demand to go.
from Food Delivery Wars: 3 Takeaways From The UberEats, Postmates, Grubhub, DoorDash Ecosystem—How It… by Sarah Tavel
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- We look at [the taxonomy of B2B marketplaces] in a couple of different ways. High-level, there are aggregators, managed marketplaces, channel marketplaces, vertical SaaS-enabled marketplaces, and then tech-enabled brokerages.
from Ameet Shah, partner at Golden Ventures, on the economics of vertical SaaS marketplaces by Sacra
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