Insights on building marketplaces, fostering active seller and buyer network and gamification.
In a recent conversation on the Levels Podcast, João explained how Bloop's "for everyone" philosophy challenges traditional influencer marketing assumptions and creates a more authentic, accessible system for earning through recommendations.
Jason Louro
Most founders struggle with the chicken-and-egg problem: buyers won't come without good selection, but sellers won't join without existing buyers. João Neves and his team at Bloop solved this challenge by focusing on three key strategies that helped them reach nearly 100 sellers before launch.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
When you’re building a two-sided marketplace, you face a chicken-and-egg problem: you need supply to get demand, but you need demand to convince supply to join. Read how one founder solved this problem with a lot of cold outreach and lowballing commissions.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
Most B2C startups think of themselves as platforms, marketplaces, or products. But the best ones evolve into something much deeper: a community.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
When you’re building a B2C startup, the hardest problems aren’t always product, pricing, or even growth. Sometimes, the biggest threat is… the weather. Read how one founder used gift cards to solve this problem.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe