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Developing an elevator pitch is a powerful exercise for helping entrepreneurs sharpen their thinking around a potential new business idea. Coming up with innovative ideas is a challenge in itself, and founders are often caught spinning their wheels, struggling to bring clarity and focus to their vision.
Today we congratulate CEO Aaron Easterly and the entire Rover team on becoming a publicly-traded company (NASDAQ: ROVR).
The end of 2020 will be marked by a series of high-profile consumer technology IPOs, including several marketplace businesses.
If a marketplace expands into the “shadow market” (or a class of buyers that was previously unavailable to a supplier), then it has the potential to accrue far more value.
It has many names: the Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, the On-Demand Economy, and even most recently called by Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Gig Economy.
Consumer companies need to scale users with the lowest acquisition cost possible. But users aren’t all equal.
Online marketplaces such as Uber and Instacart are rapidly transforming the way people get what they want—whether it’s a ride, a meal, or a pet sitter—when they want it.
The meteoric rise of several iconic marketplaces in just a few short years has ushered us into the midst of an unprecedented era of the Right Now Economy.
Menlo hosted an event to explore best practices and lessons learned from leading entrepreneurs in the space followed by a networking reception.
We look forward to working with Aaron Easterly and the team as they build Rover into the leading online marketplace for dog boarding.
