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Marketplaces
A collection of insights around the trends in consumer marketplaces.
Network Effects – The Keys to Ascending the Consumer-Internet Throne
“Category kings”, defined as market-share leaders in particular business sectors, often wind up creating the majority of the market value relative to …
Battery Ventures Network Effect Index
The Battery Ventures Network Effect Index—which includes 36 current or previously publicly traded companies, each valued at $1 billion or more—highlig…
Why Hasn’t the Traditional Banking Industry Been “Amazon-ed”?
In the last two decades, dozens of traditional industries have been “Amazoned”—turned upside down by new business models made possible by the Internet…
Photo Gallery: Wayfair Debuts on the NYSE
On Oct. 2, online home-furnishings purveyor Wayfair went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), pricing its shares above the anticipated range.…
Video: Sam Shank on High-Supply Marketplaces and the Power of Three
In the second half of Jeff Lu’s interview with HotelTonight Co-Founder and CEO Sam Shank, Shank discusses the mechanics of HotelTonight’s …
Video: Sprig’s Gagan Biyani on Taking the Ego out of Entrepreneurship
In part two of Jeff Lu’s interview with Sprig CEO Gagan Biyani, Biyani focuses on the importance of listening to your customer, and realizing th…
Jeff Lu Quizzes the CEO of Food-Delivery Service, Sprig
A nutritious, locally sourced and tasty hot meal? Ordered from your mobile device and delivered to your door in about 20 minutes–for $10? That&#…