Similar to Rakuten in Japan or Alibaba in China, MercadoLibre, which translates to “Free Market”, is an online commerce platform that currently operates in 18 countries in Latin America.
Two-Sided Market
Opendoor – a new platform marketplace for home buying in the US
Overtime, different organisations and individuals have tried to create new marketplaces and platforms to deal with the many inefficiencies, frictions, high transaction costs and suboptimal outcomes that occur within the housing market each time that a home is bought or sold.
Two-Sided Network Effects for a Food-Tech Marketplace
CaterCow is a food-tech startup that helps match caterers and restaurants with office managers and other customers looking to order food for meetings or events. As is typical in a two-sided market, there are both challenges to gaining traction and […]