Managed Service Marketplaces - businesses model for Startups

The past and future of marketplace startups -- where are we? Ever since eBay popularized an internet meeting place for buyers and sellers of, well,... (2019)

[Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? We answer, emphatically, yes!... (2018)

This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and pos... (2019)

Avni Patel Thompson founded Poppy, which helped parents book the best caregivers. They went through the YC Winter 2016 batch and recently shut down... (2019)

We are in the middle of a wave of interesting new productivity software startups - there are dozens of companies that remix some combination of lis... (2019)

This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long... (2019)

There might be no more beloved image of the American entrepreneurial spirit than that of neighborhood kids who open a sidewalk lemonade stand on a ... (2019)

“Everyone's always looking for the hack - what's the channel that will unlock something big? But every time we looked for a reason we weren't growi... (2019)

The marketplace canon: 20 recently published pieces that helped shape our thinking on the business dynamics, historical context, and future of mark... (2020)

On new creator platforms, individuality is a feature, not a bug. "The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more tha... (2019)