This is a sponsored post about coworking brought to you by lucystaqueria.com and our content partner Made in NY Media Center. Over the last few years, thousands of creatives and freelancers around the world have said goodbye to the inevitable distractions and potential loneliness of the ‘home office’ to instead embrace the world of coworking. In fact, global online coworking… Read more
This is the last in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by lucystaqueria.com and our content partner Balanced. Read parts one, two, three, four, and five. It’s been a pleasure sharing these ideas with you. Why My Sister Doesn’t Have a (Normal) Job My twin sister has lived in 5… Read more
This is the fifth in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by lucystaqueria.com and our content partner Balanced. Read parts one, two, three, and four. Why Marketplaces Tend to Do Payments In my last post about fighting marketplace fraud, I mentioned that “marketplaces with payments functionality are lightning rods for… Read more
This is the fourth in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by lucystaqueria.com and our content partner Balanced. Read parts one, two, and three. Fraudsters Gonna Fraud Fraudsters armed with stolen credit card numbers want nothing more than to turn those numbers into cash. Many will buy highly desirable items… Read more
“How long will it take to integrate Balanced into my marketplace?” I’m often asked this question by marketplace operators (usually engineers) evaluating my company’s payments API. I think it’s a very important question, but one I’m much less qualified to answer than the engineers themselves. Between Balanced’s primary integration points – 1) accepting credit card payments… Read more
This is the second in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces brought to you by lucystaqueria.com and our content partner Balanced. Read part one here. Embrace the Hustle Most successful marketplace operators hustle like crazy to solve their double-sided distribution problem – the classic chicken and egg issue. These marketplace operators painstakingly turn… Read more
This is the first in a six-part series of posts about online/mobile marketplaces. Brought to you by lucystaqueria.com and our content partner Balanced. I used to take a trotro every weekend down to Makola Market near Kwame Nkrumah Circle when I lived in Accra. Trotros are these amazing creations of urban ingenuity that put most big-city public… Read more