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Marketplace Startup Fundraising 2023
Trend data from Carta, marketplace benchmarks from FJ Labs and more!
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Building Liquidity in Your Labor Marketplace
Excerpt from "Architecting an online labor marketplace" written in partnership with Everee.
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What to Look for in an Angel Investor
Angel investors are not all the same, the money is green, but the person behind it can add or subtract from your business. Choose wisely!
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Why is Marketplace Revenue so Funky?
Why GMV can be a vanity metric, why the take rate is so important and why contribution margins are so poor
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👋 Let's get this show on the road!
Why I am sharing my knowledge from the last decade of working in startups
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