Growing your B2B marketplace
This is the third in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the V1 marketplace meetup on October 20. Check out other posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies and Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces. When we talk about marketplaces, we’re usually referring to B2C companies – eBay, […]
Should you move to a managed marketplace model?
On October 20, we hosted a marketplace meetup in San Francisco. More than 75 founders and investors joined us for the event – and for those of you who couldn’t make it, we will be sharing some of the key insights and discussions from the event in a series of posts (check out our first post […]
Growth strategies for marketplaces: key takeaways from a fireside chat on growth
Last week I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Andrew Chen for a fireside chat on growth strategies as part of the Version One marketplace meetup. More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. As an investor and former founder, […]
Recapping the V1 Marketplace Meetup in SF
Last Thursday, we hosted a private marketplace-themed event in San Francisco, The Holy Grail of the Marketplace: The Virtuous Cycle. More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. We initially started bringing the marketplace community together when we published our Guide to Marketplaces. […]
One of the few girls in the room: How do we accelerate equality in tech?
I’ve been wanting to write on the topic of gender for a long time now, but haven’t been able to find the words. And admittedly, I’m still trying to find my position in all this. It’s a tricky subject for me to navigate: on one hand, sharing challenges might paint me as weak, a victim, […]