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Marketplace Memo #8

Stubhub IPO, Mercor at $100M Run Rate, Napster Comeback, Flexport Lawsuit, Pickle Raises $12M and Much More!
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Marketplace Memo #7
Amazon Surpasses Walmart, Prosus Buys Just Eat Takeaway.com, Booking.com hits $165.6B GBV, David's Bridal to Build a Marketplace and Much More!
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Colin Gardiner
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Marketplace Startup Fundraising 2025
State of the union on marketplace fundraising in 2025, investment trend data from Carta, benchmarks from FJ Labs and more!
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Colin Gardiner
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Marketplace Memo #6
Uber with Guns, $100M at $2B for Mercor, Getaround shuts US down, Turo pulls IPO, $81.8B in GMV for Airbnb and much more.
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Colin Gardiner
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Peer-to-Peer #2: $800B Excess Inventory Market With Amantha Bagdon of RxPost and Amrita Bhasin of Sotira
Amantha of RxPost and Amrita of Sotira talk about their experiences building excess inventory marketplaces in pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods…
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Colin Gardiner
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Amantha Bagdon
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Amrita Bhasin
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Marketplace Memo #5
Fay and Berry Street Both Raise $50M, Cracked and Nulled Taken Down by International Police Operation, Spencer Rascoff Joins Match Group as CEO, Kalshi…
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Colin Gardiner
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The Founder's Toolkit #1: Starting Your Fundraising and Building Your Investor Pipeline
This is an in-depth guide to starting your fundraising process and building your investor pipeline. It includes a FREE Google Sheets CRM template for…
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I Found Product-Market Fit 🎉
Some exciting news about the future of Take Rate! The gist? It is only going to get better and better.
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Colin Gardiner
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