There’s a ton of warehouse space in the United States today: about 14.5 billion square feet, according to Jonathan Rosenthal, chairman and co-founder of Warehouse Exchange. But that’s not the shocker, he told Karen Webster in this week’s Matchmaker. According to Rosenthal, the amount of...
There are many ways to a signature innovation, and in some cases great platforms have been created out of great and timely pivots. Such was the case with Suiteness.com, said Co-Founder Kyle Killion, who remarked in this week’s The Matchmaker Is In that the founding team’s...
Most of the entrepreneurs we talk to start out trying to solve their own problem only to end up discovering that there is no solution and that they need to build one (and bring it to market). But Amanda Patterson, founder and CEO of The...
What’s more fashionable than efficiency? Yet, until recently, it wasn’t a trend the luxury fashion market had really tried on. Kristin Savilia, CEO of the digital wholesale fashion marketplace JOOR, remembers working as a buyer for Macy’s in the 1990s. She remembers making poster boards...
Talking to Karen Webster earlier this summer, Mobike’s Head of International Expansion, Florian Bohnert, said that bikes are a winning strategy for consumers nearly worldwide — and dockless is the wave of the future.
“We want to saturate the cities we are in, in terms of number of places, before moving on to the next place. It is important for us not to scale super quickly, but to really hone in on cities and build real relationships there with...
Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen Webster observed in a recent conversation with Vantiv’s Head of Developer Integration’s Matt Ozvat — “it feels a bit like everyone out there has their...
Iñigo Juantegui, co-founder of OnTruck, tends to hear the word “Uber” a lot. As the head of a platform that connects short haul truckers to shippers in Spain and increasingly across Europe, he knows that “Uber for Trucking” is the natural comparison. Still, he told David Evans, economist...
While the world of payments has mostly gone online – rent remains stubbornly analog in the age of digital. According to a recent Zillow study, 76 percent of rent payments are made offline – mostly in the form of checks, though cash and money orders...
