The Lean Marketplace: A Practical Guide - Crowdsourcing Week

The Lean Marketplace: a Practical Guide to Building a Successful Online Marketplace Business

Author: Juho Makkonen, Cristóbal Gracia, Janne Koivistoinen, Ville Saarinen and Sjoerd Handgraaf

Editor's note: Inspired by the success of platforms such as Airbnb, Etsy or Fiverr? Want to know how to build an online marketplace business? This is the book for you. In this step by step guide, we will go through everything you need to know about developing your idea into a sustainable business, (...) Read more

About the Authors

Juho Makkonen has been building online marketplaces since 2008. In 2011, he co-founded Sharetribe, a company that helps people and organizations to create their own online marketplace platforms and build successful businesses around them. 
Cristóbal Gracia built his first peer-to-peer marketplace in 2009. Today, he is a member of the Platform Design Toolkit team, works as an advisor for marketplace startups, (...) Read more

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