Tips on starting your marketplace

Compare marketplace monetization strategies & find a business model that boosts your growth.

How to spot marketplace opportunities and transform them into great business ideas.

An introduction to online marketplaces. What they are, why they are booming, and why you should build one.

Example of a first year’s marketplace startup budget, and how to spend it wisely.

Don’t build a desert platform. Here are the steps to take to prevalidate your marketplace idea.

There are dozens of online marketplace software alternatives to choose from. Learn how to make the right choice for your marketplace idea, budget, and future plans.

What you should focus on when you’re creating the first version of your marketplace platform.

‘Time is money’, and other teachings to inspire you to take the plunge and launch your marketplace as soon as you can.

Mike Williams shares three practical lessons on how to bootstrap online marketplaces. All taken from his experience building and scaling Studiotime – today the largest online marketplace for booking music studios.

Axel Heinz’s story proves that you can prevalidate your marketplace idea extremely affordably. And that you should.

James Berdigans believes his B2B platform thrives when its customers and providers thrive.

Kyōyū, Canon's first-ever gear-sharing marketplace, was built on Sharetribe Flex. What benefits does the Fortune 500 company see in the sharing economy?

Mathias Ockenfels shares his love of network effects – and how he spots them early on.

How can a marketplace startup compete with platform giants? Connor Gillivan, co-founder and CMO of the freelance marketplace FreeeUp, shares their story.

Stasher co-founder and CCO Anthony Collias reveals how Stasher validated their business idea, built their tech, found partners and funders, and expanded the marketplace to three continents.

Sharetribe's new book, The Lean Marketplace, is now available for Kindle and as a paperback from Amazon.com. Learn more about this practical guide to building a successful online marketplace business.

Grant Polachek shares his approach on how to determine the right name for your marketplace.

Our CEO Juho picked the five books he strongly recommends to all marketplace entrepreneurs.

In this interview, Oliver Bremer discusses how and why his first marketplace business Tangareef failed and what he learned from it to start a new project.

Arash Shiva and Marius Ciocirlan of Sharegrid reveal how they went from bootstrapping to $1M in funding, using Sharetribe.

Boris Wertz, the prolific marketplace investor and former COO of AbeBooks, believes there are still many untapped verticals that are ripe for disruption by new marketplace businesses.

An interview with the founders of Cycle.land, the Sharetribe-powered bike-sharing marketplace that raised more than £400,000 in equity crowdfunding.

A list of ten marketplace founders, who remain CEOs of their successful marketplace companies. Follow them for inspiration and advice.

A list of 10 important marketplace thought leaders to follow in this rapidly changing industry.

From the stage at Cabaret Sauvage in Paris, Robin is telling the vivid story about how she likes to stay at friends’ houses when she travels.

Peer-to-peer marketplaces can be great businesses. They combine the convenience of online stores with scale that comes from the notion that every consumer can also be a provider.