One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. However, the challenge with this two-sided market is: how do you get the investors to show up? It’s hard enough to get the retail investors, but the family offices and other large check writers are even more challenging. I’ve...
[Continue Reading]How to disrupt the investing business, with Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)
I had a conversation recently about the investing business with Katina Stefanova, who recently left Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world. I’ve always had great respect for Bridgewater, which unlike most investing organizations realizes just how critical processes and culture are to investing success. Katina served as a Senior Executive and Management Committee...
[Continue Reading]Next Gen Startup Financing Marketplaces
I enjoyed attending Tuesday’s panel, “Innovative Marketplaces Meetup: Next Gen Startup Financing Marketplaces” Speakers: David Rose, Founder and CEO, Angelsoft Jeremy Smith, Chief Strategy Officer, SecondMarket Rob Garcia, Dir. Product Strategy, Lending Club Slava Rubin, Co-Founder, IndieGoGo Moderator: Nathan Solomon, SuperFluid Co-Organizers: Innovative Marketplaces Meetup, Money Meetup, and Yale Entrepreneurs and Investors Meetup About the...
[Continue Reading]Buying private companies on marketplaces of primary and secondary interests
Congratulations to the team at AxialMarket on raising $2m from First Round Capital and Windcrest Investments. I take this as a sign that they’re starting to gain traction among corporations and private equity funds, despite the fact they’re threatening the lunch of lower-tier business brokers and others who benefit from the currently highly inefficient, fragmented...
[Continue Reading]A marketplace for research
The team from AQ Research (at whose conference I’ll be speaking tomorrow in London) has written a blog post about an idea I’ve chewed on for a while: A Marketplace for Research’. There are a number of gross inefficiencies in the current research business, and inefficiencies are usually the breeding ground where new business models...
[Continue Reading]Multisided Markets–HBS Professor Andrei Hagiu
HBS Professor Andrei Hagiu is an expert on multi-sided markets, and recently interviewed me on that topic: Market Platform Dynamics–Catalyst Conversation: Conversation with David Teten. His site requires that you submit an email address to read the article (but I should note that he doesn’t actually test if the email address is functional.)...
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