Category: Starting a marketplace
What makes a great marketplace idea
Starting a marketplace, Business model · 9 min read
How to choose the right business model for your marketplace
Compare marketplace monetization strategies & find a business model that boosts your growth.Starting a marketplace · 11 min read
How to find great online marketplace ideas
How to spot marketplace opportunities and transform them into great business ideas.Starting a marketplace · 7 min read
What you need to know before starting your marketplace business
An introduction to online marketplaces. What they are, why they are booming, and why you should build one.
Preparing your business for take-off
Starting a marketplace · 10 min read
How much does it cost to start a marketplace business?
Example of a first year’s marketplace startup budget, and how to spend it wisely.Starting a marketplace · 11 min read
How to validate your marketplace idea before building the platform
Don’t build a desert platform. Here are the steps to take to prevalidate your marketplace idea.
Find the fastest way to market
Starting a marketplace, Platform technology · 7 min read
How to choose the right online marketplace software
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.Starting a marketplace, Platform technology · 11 min read
Your marketplace MVP – How to build a Minimum Viable Platform
What you should focus on when you’re creating the first version of your marketplace platform.Starting a marketplace · 6 min read
Why you should launch your marketplace early
‘Time is money’, and other teachings to inspire you to take the plunge and launch your marketplace as soon as you can.
More on starting a marketplace
Starting a marketplace · 5 min read
How to bootstrap your online marketplace
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.Starting a marketplace, The Backstage · 6 min read
Makerist founder Axel Heinz on how to validate a marketplace idea
Axel Heinz’s story proves that you can prevalidate your marketplace idea extremely affordably. And that you should.Starting a marketplace, The Backstage · 3 min read
Printify CEO James Berdigans on how a marketplace can help users succeed
James Berdigans believes his B2B platform thrives when its customers and providers thrive.Starting a marketplace · 5 min read
Why Canon Australia ventured into the sharing economy
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?Starting a marketplace, The Backstage · 6 min read
Speedinvest’s Mathias Ockenfels on what investors look for in marketplaces
Mathias Ockenfels shares his love of network effects – and how he spots them early on.Starting a marketplace · 6 min read
Competing with marketplace giants — An interview with Connor Gillivan
How can a marketplace startup compete with platform giants? Connor Gillivan, co-founder and CMO of the freelance marketplace FreeeUp, shares their story.Starting a marketplace · 5 min read
Validate your marketplace as you go – An interview with Anthony Collias
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.Starting a marketplace · < 1
The Lean Marketplace – out now!
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.Starting a marketplace · 3 min read
How to find the perfect name for your marketplace
Grant Polachek shares his approach on how to determine the right name for your marketplace.Starting a marketplace · 5 min read
Five must-read books for marketplace entrepreneurs
Our CEO Juho picked the five books he strongly recommends to all marketplace entrepreneurs.Starting a marketplace · 6 min read
Three lessons learned: What matters most in marketplaces – An interview with Oliver Bremer
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.Starting a marketplace · 4 min read
From bootstrapping to $1M in funding – An interview with Arash Shiva and Marius Ciocirlan
Arash Shiva and Marius Ciocirlan of Sharegrid reveal how they went from bootstrapping to $1M in funding, using Sharetribe.Starting a marketplace · 4 min read
Discover latent demand – An interview with Boris Wertz
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.Starting a marketplace · 5 min read
From idea to profitability in months – An interview with Agne Milukaite and Peter Ebsen
An interview with the founders of Cycle.land, the Sharetribe-powered bike-sharing marketplace that raised more than £400,000 in equity crowdfunding.Starting a marketplace · 2 min read
Ten marketplace founder & CEOs every marketplace entrepreneur should follow
A list of ten marketplace founders, who remain CEOs of their successful marketplace companies. Follow them for inspiration and advice.Starting a marketplace · 2 min read
Ten marketplace thought leaders every marketplace entrepreneur should follow
A list of 10 important marketplace thought leaders to follow in this rapidly changing industry.Starting a marketplace · 5 min read
How to find the next big marketplace idea – An interview with Robin Chase
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.Starting a marketplace · 7 min read
Three reasons why peer-to-peer marketplaces fail (and how not to)
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.