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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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We're live today at 3:30 PM BST!

Join us for Platform Leaders to discuss the future of digital platforms and AI.

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Platform Leaders is tomorrow!

16 June | 3:30 PM BST

🎤 @fabricegrinda on marketplaces in the age of AI
🛒 Agentic Commerce panel
⚖️ AI Regulation panel

Last chance to register: http://platformleaders.com

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Meet our AI regulation panellist: Catherine Chapple, Counsel in Competition Advisory & Regulatory Affairs at Google.

She brings a unique perspective on how major platforms are navigating the evolving AI regulatory landscape.

3 days to go | 16 June |
...http://platformleaders.com

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Meet our AI regulation panellist: Prof. Alexandre de Streel (@CERRE_ThinkTank), Professor of European Law at the University of Namur.

He regularly advises the EU and international organisations on digital regulation.

16 June | http://platformleaders.com

Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

Recent research from @ykanoria at @Columbia_Biz reveals interesting insights on how AI agents behave when they shop on our behalf.

We'll dig into what this means at Platform Leaders on 16 June.

http://platformleaders.com

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Meet our panellist: @sameer_singh17, Partner at @Speedinvest and expert on network effects.

Sameer invests in network effect businesses and authors http://breadcrumb.vc. He'll share his views on agentic commerce.

6 days to go | 16 June |
...http://platformleaders.com

Platform Leaders @PlatformLeadrs

73% of consumers already use AI in their shopping journey.

But what happens when AI agents don't just recommend. They can buy, negotiate or decide on your behalf?

Join us on 16 June to explore the future of agentic commerce.
http://platformleaders.com

Platform Leaders @PlatformLeadrs

EU AI Act delayed to 2027/28. DMA review puts AI centre-stage. Agents from Anthropic, Google & OpenAI keep outpacing the rulebook.

How should regulators respond? Join our AI governance panel, 16 June.

https://platformleaders.com/

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Meet our Agentic Commerce panellist: @AclaireBasch, Chief Data & AI Officer @mirakl

Anne-Claire leads Mirakl's AI strategy & agentic commerce vision. She will share her views on the agentic commerce market and winning strategies for marketplaces.

...http://platformleaders.com

Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier

Is brand loyalty dead if every purchase decision is compared instantly by an AI agent?

Who gets disintermediated when interfaces shift from human UX to agent APIs?

These are the questions I'll be tackling with our panel on Agentic Commerce at Platform
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