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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso – Network Effects in Marketplace Businesses
Description: Network Effects in Marketplace Businesses  Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.  Marketplace businesses derive value from the network effects that come with matching buyers and sellers.  The greater the number of buyers and sellers the more attractive the platform.  One side of the marketplace can attract the other side.  If one side is using the software platform, then the other side will follow.  One side can demand the other use the platform as the financial transaction or the flow of goods and services goes through it.  Marketp...