Everything Marketplaces

This was such an awesome chat with Amir Nathoo where we did a deep dive into Outschool as a leading online education marketplace. We covered lots of ground from how they initially solved the cold start problem, got to learn more about their pivot to online classes, incredible growth, Amir shared lots of his key marketplace learnings, and more. This is a group chat that I highly suggest all marketplace founders watch (or listen)!

Miss our group chat with Amir Nathoo from Outschool last week? This was a great chat with Amir where we went back to the founding story for Outschool, what the first steps were that they took to start it as a marketplace, how they solved the cold start problem, got to learn how it's evolved & scaled, we did a deep dive into it as a leading online education marketplace today, Amir shared some of his key fundraising learnings after raising $190M+ from top investors, and we also had a great group Q&A. The recording is now live! https://lnkd.in/giQxtsVC

Everything Marketplaces #242 just went out! We shared new marketplace resources, about our end of the year event, community insights, & more. Here's more in the full newsletter: https://lnkd.in/g_brSNGr

I'm wrapping up the draft for our Everything Marketplaces 2024 Recap & Year In Review. It's wild seeing how big of a year it's been for us with all of the milestones and also the fact that we hosted 120+ events (online & offline) this year. Thousands of marketplace founders & teams from all over the world attended our events, so getting to meet everyone was certainly a highlight for me. I'll be sharing the full recap next week and here's a few pictures I found where I was caught in action (of course talking about marketplaces) in the meantime:

Are you looking to learn about marketplaces this weekend? Our Marketplace Knowledge Hub has 700+ of the best blog posts, essays, podcasts, & more content for learning about marketplace startups. https://lnkd.in/gMjHdW5d

This is another example of a really cool marketplace that just launched in the Everything Marketplaces community. It's also been great getting to know Matt Holder, since he has some really great marketplace experience and has more recently taken the leap to starting TeeTimeTrader. I think you'll enjoy learning more about it and maybe even using if you're a golfer!

Congrats to our community member Matt Holder on launching TeeTimeTrader! TeeTimeTrader is a marketplace that makes it easy for golfers to buy & sell tee times. Learn more about it on Marketplace Launch: https://lnkd.in/gXkeY6TN

2024 has been a big year for the Everything Marketplaces community. We're going to wrap it up by doing a live event on 12/30 where we'll be doing a live end of the year recap, along with an Ask Me Anything (AMA). I'll also be sharing some big plans that we have for 2025 on it!

Congrats to our community member Kevin L. and the Halo team on being named a top startup!

If Everything Marketplaces hasn’t hit your radar and you’re in ecommerce check it out. Start by listening to Mike’s podcast. It’s an invaluable source of insight from guests who have been in the trenches grinding it out. His guests have provided me helpful insight on go-to-market strategy and approaches to solving the Cold Start problem every new marketplace needs overcome to survive.