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Building a successful marketplace business – Founders’ stories

 Growth, Marketplaces, Platform scaling
 September 25, 2018

How to scale your marketplace: The Houseshop, Jump.work, Vinterior and Le Salon

Building a successful marketplace business is notoriously difficult. Marketplaces Connect 2018 provided a chance to hear reports from the front line, and hear the stories of some of the...

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How to raise funds for your marketplace

 Growth, Marketplaces, Raising funds
 August 20, 2018

How to raise funds for your marketplace

Any entrepreneur will tell you that access to capital is critical to build, launch and grow a business. Capital can come from many sources: profitable and cash flow neutral customers,...

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Carwow: 5 marketplace scaling lessons

 Growth, Marketplaces, Platform scaling
 July 12, 2018

Carwow's COO Andrew Hooks

Carwow is the highly disruptive platform for buying and selling new and used cars. Starting out in 2013, Carwow has grown to 200 employees, making it Europe’s 6th fastest growing...

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How marketplaces Carwow, Plentific and Movidiam think about growth

 Growth, Marketplaces, Platform scaling

Launchworks and Mangopay were delighted to organise Marketplaces Connect 2017, the first marketplace event in the UK, which took place on 24 January 2017 in London. During the event,...

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Scale up or die: a platform imperative

 Business models, Growth, News, Platform scaling, Platforms
 November 21, 2014

The Scale Up Report is out. It has been a privilege to work with Sherry Coutu as a member of the Scale Up Report Steering Committee. The launch of the report earlier on this week has been...

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How to ignite hypergrowth: platforms’ secrets

 Growth, Insights, Platform ecosystem, Platform scaling, Platforms
 February 12, 2014

Platforms are the dirty little secret of many hyper growth businesses Platform businesses, such as eBay, Google and Facebook have been booming over the past few years.  More recently...

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Platform Leaders @PlatformLeadrs

Delighted to announce that @Wharton management professor Manav Raj is the winner of the Platform Leaders 2025 Academic Prize 🏆 with his paper More is (sometimes) merrier: Heterogeneity in demand spillovers and competition on a digital platform

Platform Leaders @PlatformLeadrs

Inspiring keynote presentation from @Benoit.Reillier who shared his 2026 trends #PlatformLeaders #Trends2026

Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

Tech and policy are increasingly intertwined in the EU and the UK as new digital market rules are moving compliance from legal backrooms to product teams and roadmaps.

This is directly shaping products and services coming to market.

At Platform Leaders,
...our panel "From Policy…

Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

On Tue 18 Nov 2025, we’ll unpack how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini are reshaping discovery, recommendations, and brand visibility.

We have a fantastic panel with @PSKD1, COO @e_nation, Prof. @Nicos_Savva, Professor of Management Science and
...Operations, Academic…

Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

🚀 Big news! Platform Leaders returns on 18 Nov in Kings Cross, London and online—bringing together entrepreneurs, policymakers, academics, and practitioners to explore the future of digital platforms and AI.

We will cover a number of themes this year
...including:

✅ What are the…

Launchworks & Co @LaunchworksCo

🚀 Platform Leaders is on today! 🚀 Fantastic programme focusing on 👇
• Tackling misinformation and fake news on social media
• Regulating for Growth
• Creating a moat in an AI world with Service Marketplaces

Last chance to register for FREE
...👉 https://platformleaders.com

Launchworks & Co @LaunchworksCo

🚀 Ready to leverage AI to enhance your service marketplace's growth and customer satisfaction? Or concerned about disruption and disintermediation? Don't miss the #PlatformLeaders panel with @sdelafond, Tito Unda, Jeremy Gottschalk & @lreillier on 5 ...June https://platformleaders.com

Launchworks & Co @LaunchworksCo

Delighted to welcome Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne @infoecon @BUQuestrom & Digital Fellow @mit_ide to @PlatformLeadrs on 5 June for a groundbreaking keynote on "The Misinformation Machine: social media, fake news, & the future of truth". Register for ...free http://platformleaders.com

The Innovator @theinnovator

Get the keytakeaways, including 2025 predicitions, from the November 13th Platform Leaders conference, a London-based event organized by @LaunchworksCo & Co. on the future of digital platforms and ecosystems.

Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

Matthew Braovac @VerityDoyle @oliverbethell discussing regulation in an exponential age #platformleaders

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