Tag: advice

Successful Marketplaces Are Greater Than The Sum of Their Merchants

“How long will it take to integrate Balanced into my marketplace?” I’m often asked this question by marketplace operators (usually engineers) evaluating my company’s payments API. I think it’s a very important question, but one I’m much less qualified to answer than the engineers themselves. Between Balanced’s primary integration points – 1) accepting credit card payments…  Read more

Steal Eggs: The Secret to Scaling A Marketplace

This is the second in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by rageandrelease.com and our content partner Balanced. Read part one here. Embrace the Hustle Most successful marketplace operators hustle like crazy to solve their double-sided distribution problem – the classic chicken and egg issue. These marketplace operators painstakingly turn…  Read more