Matchmakers are only as good as the infrastructure and services that keep their matchmaking engines humming. Bill Clerico, cofounder and CEO of WePay, explained the importance of bringing the “picks and the shovels” to the matchmakers’ gold rush in this week’s The Matchmaker Is In...
All startups are not created equal, and those who want to grow up and be successful matchmakers must be prepared to play by an entirely different (and more complex) set of rules. In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster...
Matchmakers are the type of business that dares to go where many other businesses refuse to even try: as the intermediary that matches customers with a need with customers who can meet their needs. It only looks easy. Uber, Google, Visa, Airbnb, Facebook, Westfield Malls,...
There are few things less challenging than building a mobile payments network from the ground up. Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja At LevelUp, is no stranger to accepting challenges and shared why it takes more than cost savings to get (and keep) merchants and consumers engaged...
Matchmaker, matchmaker … make me a match. If only it were that easy. Or, if we were back in the good old “Fiddler On The Roof” days, the concept of the multi-sided platforms weren’t a driving topic of conversation. Even so, the idea of matchmaking — an age-old concept...
In payments, innovation is as much as art as science – in terms of finding the balance between buyers and sellers, and reaching critical mass for both sides, as BarclayCard’s Nick Kerigan explains.
Asking for permission is something our mothers taught us from Day 1. It’s also the basis for how Mike Cook, CEO & Founder of XOR Data Exchange, is using data aggregation to manage SMB credit risk, fight fraud and put consumers back in control...
Matchmakers are the kind of business that looks easy. Visa, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, Google – what’s so hard, everyone asks? They work, they’re huge and they match millions – and even billions in some cases – of customers who want to transact with those...
Join Karen Webster, CEO of PYMNTS, Chip Kahn, the Mayor of Boomtown, and David Evans, co-author of the hot new strategy book, Matchmakers, this Tuesday, May 24, noon EST, for an intense conversation about the dos and don’ts of platform businesses. ……………………………………… TO REGISTER, FILL...
