Twitter alternative T2 launches new verification program, hires Discord eng

T2, a new Twitter alternative, is preparing to take flight

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a platform overnight with addition of plugins

OpenAI today announced its support of new third-party plugins for ChatGPT, and it already has Twitter buzzing about the company's potential platform play.

Matching and Information Design in Marketplaces

Two design rules that make products win. - by Thomas Drach

The secrets of Zoom, Amazon, and Apple products.

How do you solve world-class problems?

The power of primitives

How One Guy’s Car Blog Became a $1 Billion Marketplace

It’s a place for obsessives to buy, sell and geek out over classic cars. The company pops open its hood after 100,000 auctions to explain why.

WTF is Marketplace Liquidity?

Methodologies for understanding and measuring marketplace liquidity

Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

The platform and the curator

Who has their hand on the dial? Talk with someone who works at Apple, Amazon, Google, Linkedin, Facebook, etc, and they’ll be happy to give you tips on how to work the platform to your advant…

If you like startups you should love anti-trust

Why do companies that were once the face of the anti-establishment startup world inexorably become the very sort of business that they were built to destroy?

Hacker News

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.

The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple & Twilio

There is a fallacy in believing your current performance is indicative of future success: Performance is a trailing indicator. Power is a leading one.

The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky

This is a book summary of The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky. Read The Art of Profitability summary to review key ideas and lessons from the book.

Turning non-tradables into tradables

Plus! Grills, Ads, Pricing, Drops, Movies, Diff Jobs

What is Plex? Everything you need to know

Our guide on what Plex is and what you can stream on it

The speakeasy economy of WeChat

We chat, we buy, we sell.

Royalty Exchange: Buy & Sell Music Rights & Copyrights

Royalty Exchange is an online marketplace & auction platform where investors & owners of royalty streams can buy royalties and sell all types of royalties.

Buy Royalties & Intellectual Property Rights Income | Royalty Exchange

Royalty Exchange is a marketplace where investors can buy income-generating intellectual property and other royalty streams as alternative investments.

Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare, a Founder’s Playbook

The most significant bottleneck in the adoption of healthcare technology to date has been distribution. Over the last decade, generations of digital health companies have struggled to reach escape velocity—not because their products and services weren’t transformative, but…

How to protect yourself as middleman in a marketplace

Guest One key risk facing marketplace operators is the threat of disintermediation, when a buyer chooses to work directly with a seller and bypasses your platform. Through our experience investing in several pioneering marketplace companies, we've seen a handful of clever ways…

Business Model Navigator

Explore powerful business model patterns by iconic firms and leverage our interactive software for business model innovation.

3 Strategies To Building a Marketplace Startup | SaaS Academy

Building a two-sided market is probably the hardest thing you can build as an entrepreneur. It's so hard that a few weeks ago, I organized a Marketplace

Signaling as a Service

01 Intro One of the best books I have read in the last few years is The Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler. The book makes two main arguments: a) Most of our everyday actions can be traced back to some form of signaling or status seeking b) Our brains…

Platforms and Networks

Insights and Resources for Tech Entrepreneurs

http://platformed.info/virality-viral-growth-network-effects

Pando: Democratizing career progression

Democratizing career progression

The 7 marketplace design patterns

The rise of on-demand marketplaces has brought with it varied business models, across number of industries. This framework tries to explain how a marketplace’s vertical impacts its business m…

Axial - Business models

Agency for great inventors

The 3 Competitive Defenses of Enduring SaaS Companies by @ttunguz

A technology advantage isn’t enough to build an enduring enterprise SaaS company because at the core, all SaaS software share the same architecture. A relational database stores data and a web site presents the data. This is true for CRM (Salesforce), marketing automation…

Why Platform Disruption Is So Much Bigger than Product Disruption

New products change what we buy, but new platforms have much broader effects.

Positional Scarcity

Each day on Tech Twitter, we get up in the morning, open up the website, and then go see what it is we’re mad about. A few days ago, it was this: The concept of “pay to get a better place in l…

How to Build a Company That Lasts Forever

At the core of Europe's strongest economy is the Mittelstand, a tier of impeccably run small manufacturers that measure growth not in years but in centuries. Here's how they do it, in five very German lessons.

https://codingvc.com/the-value-of-data-part-1-using-data-as-a-competitive-advantage

Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Ind...

“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human...

Why Uber Fights

Ride-sharing is a winner-take-all market that depends on controlling demand more than it does supply.

Everything We Know About Platforms We Learned from Medieval France

Raise a glass of bubbly to the count of Champagne.

The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Probably not the ones you think.

Twilio Segment Blog

Three Elements of a Successful Platform Strategy

Building a better mousetrap isn’t enough.

The Power of Data Network Effects

In the furiously competitive world of tech startups, where good entrepreneurs tend to think of comparable ideas around the same time and "hot spaces" get crowded quickly with well-funded hopefuls, competitive moats matter more than ever. Ideally, as your startup scales, you want…

What’s Next for Marketplace Startups? | Andreessen Horowitz

Goods versus Services: The next trillion dollar opportunity Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but less so for services. In this essay, we argue that a breakthrough is on its way: The…

6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Perhaps the most egregious is a failure of imagination.

Why Figma Wins - kwokchain

Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its…

All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

Since Benchmark’s investment in Ebay 15 years ago, we have been fascinated by online marketplaces. Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the…

How Artists Get Paid From Streaming

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

Nearly a third of new subscribers to some news publications cancel in the first 24 hours

The same-day cancellation rate likely includes subscribers who only wanted access to one article, or who felt the full paid experience was lacking after a quick look around. New data suggests some just really hate the idea of auto-renewal.

Thoughts on Building Weatherproof Companies | Andreessen Horowitz

You can't build a weatherproof company if you don’t constantly gather challenges to your thinking, learn to listen to them, and then test those learnings out.

The Marketplace Glossary | Andreessen Horowitz

This week, we published the a16z Marketplace 100, a ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. See the full index and analysis here, and visit a16z.com/marketplace-100 for more marketplace-related content. From a…

Selling pickaxes during a gold rush

Chris Dixon's blog.

In times of change, make tires

Innovation is not a binary choice between the old and the new. The answer is often to contribute to evolution — by making parts that work…