By Guimar Vaca Sittic Most of the successful peer-to-peer marketplaces are purchase-oriented. The graph below categorizes some of … Continue reading “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 reading “Understanding Vertical Marketplace Innovation”

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

by Guimar Vaca Sittic Building marketplaces is really hard. The hardest nut to crack is building liquidity: having … Continue reading “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 reading “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 reading “The Evolution of Marketplaces”

As you can probably imagine given my recent blog post, Thoughts on building successful vertical marketplaces, marketplaces have … Continue reading “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 reading “Thoughts on building successful vertical marketplaces”