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Why do marketplaces make great businesses?

Austin Startup

* It’s looking equally good for the bootstrapped and indie-funded marketplaces too. you’re building a product for two different audiences (buyers and sellers) as well as facilitating sales between them so there’s a lot more complexity than building a simple e-commerce website. But they didn’t all start off that way.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 One of the steps we took was to establish MAXIM BPO, a Business Process Outsourcing company in Manila, Philippines, to perform back-office functions for our various verticals including inbound/outbound call center, accounting and bookkeeping, and IT Support.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. What if phones were banned in store?

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