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As e-commerce continues to expand, the demand for warehouse workers is growing faster than the labor supply and creating an increased need for automation.
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David vs. Goliath: How E-Commerce Companies Can Win Against Amazon
Physical retail is dying—a trend which has been ongoing for years and is now accelerating.
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Instant Gratification and the Power of Right Now
In this post, we will explain why on-demand marketplaces have a distinct advantage in terms of avoiding disintermediation, maintaining pricing power, and boosting acquisition…
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Supply-Side Economics
At Menlo, we encourage our companies not to neglect the supply side, as supplier retention is directly correlated to overall platform quality and NPS.
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Let’s Get Vertical
Within a broad horizontal marketplace, it becomes more difficult to achieve sufficient liquidity, whereas a vertical marketplace immediately brings together buyers and sellers seeking…
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All About the Rake
It’s simply inevitable that high-flying businesses’ growth rates will moderate over time, as the universe of unaddressed consumers becomes smaller, and each incremental sale…
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The Only Metric That Truly Matters for a Marketplace Is the Shadow Market
If a marketplace expands into the “shadow market” (or a class of buyers that was previously unavailable to a supplier), then it has the…
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10 Laws of Successful Marketplaces
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.
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Menlo Marketplaces: Investing in UpCounsel
We are excited to announce today our lead investment in the Series A financing of UpCounsel. This investment continues our strong investment thesis around…