Mike Williams

Founder of Everything Marketplaces

Founder of Everything Marketplaces. I'm always working with, helping, & investing in marketplace startups. I've previously started a few marketplaces (two acquired). I also recently wrote bit.ly/marketplacesguide

You learn more about me at the following:

www.iammikewilliams.com
angel.co/yoroomie
twitter.com/yoroomie

Startup Advisor

The Everything Marketplaces community wouldn't be what it is today without all of the incredible marketplace founders & leaders that have joined us for group chats.

We've had 200+ so far, with founders & leaders from some of the most notable marketplaces. 

Guests have joined us to share their marketplace experience, learnings, and tips for earlier stage founders.

I wanted to say a huge thanks to our past guests for joining and helping us build something special for the world of marketplaces. 

Here's a visual I put together to help highlight some of our past group chat guests:

10 things I would go back to tell myself as a first-time marketplace founder:

1. Operate with a unique insight
2. Don't skip through the ideation stage & talking to users
3. Don't overbuild your MVP
4. Launch as soon as you can
5. Create transactions by manually matching
6. Identify the "hard side" to solve for
7. Focus on getting to liquidity, since this is ultimately what matters
8. Find (or build) a distribution advantage from the beginning
9. Marketplaces are hard, so don't try to do it alone
10. Don't give up

Are you looking to join a marketplace?

Here are 20+ roles at marketplaces that are hiring:

-Native App Engineering, Manager at Rocket Homes
-Staff Data Analyst at Rocket Homes
-Founding Backend Engineer at Intro
-Senior Software Engineer at Berry Street
-Senior Software Engineer, Marketplace Operations at StubHub
-Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at StubHub
-Senior Software Engineer, Backend at ResortPass
-Lead AI Engineer at Berry Street
-Software Engineer (Backend & Agents) at Dex
-Senior Product Manager, AI Tools & Intelligent Workflows at StubHub
-Associate Product Manager, Consumer Experience at StubHub
-Founding Product Designer at Intro
-Lead Product Manager at Berry Street
-Head of Design at Berry Street
-Product Designer at Remi
-Growth Marketing Manager at ResortPass
-Growth Marketing Manager at Sweatpals
-Performance Marketing Manager, Creative Optimization at Rocket Homes
-Senior Business Operations Associate at  ResortPass
-Head of Talent, US General Manager at Dex
-Developer Relations Manager at Polymarket
-Operations Manager at Hetal Retail

Be sure to subscribe to our Marketplace Jobs newsletter (link in comments) for these roles & more at marketplaces that are hiring!

Part of being a marketplace founder is paying it forward to help other founders.

November was another big month for the Everything Marketplaces community.

Here's a few highlights from our monthly roundup & recap post that we just shared:

-We're now 2,800+ marketplace founders & teams in the community
-We made updates to our early-stage marketplace resources (Marketplace School, Marketplace Launch, etc)
-We had an awesome group chat with Anthemos Georgiades, where we did a deep dive into how they're leveraging AI at Zumper
-We had office hours every week for support on topics like GTM, then B2B Marketplaces. We also had Blake Hirt Ben Levinson join them as guests.
-We had a great fundraising meeting, where we had Colin Gardiner join as an investor guest.
-We had lots of wins shared like founders launching, crossing big milestones, announcing expansion, & new funding rounds.
+ more

Looking forward to another big month in December as we head into the end of the year!

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