What’s the role of payments in igniting a matchmaker platform? In this week’s installment of The Matchmaker Is In series, Lars Pedersen, Creditcall CEO, shared with host Karen Webster how payments take matchmakers to places that they’ve never gone before — namely, ignition.
Friction is what matchmakers see as an opportunity for innovation. It can also sink their best-laid plans. Anthony Walton, founder and CEO of Iliad Solutions, joined this week’s The Matchmaker Is In series, hosted by Karen Webster and economist and "Matchmakers" author David Evans, to...
When it comes to personal data, consumers today are wielding more control over what information they share and with whom. But what does that mean for the matchmakers who rely on that data to reach and keep their consumers? Rob Shavell, cofounder and CEO of...
Making or breaking a matchmaker enterprise may not always be about how well supply and demand can be managed. It can be about how it pays its remote workforce. Serial FinTech entrepreneur and Hyperwallet CEO Brent Warrington joined this week’s The Matchmaker Is In series...
Card-linked offers have struggled to get traction for lots of reasons. But Keith Smith, president of Wonder Technologies and card-linked offer veteran, says he knows why. In this week’s installment of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster and economist and "Matchmakers" author David...
In a car-dominated society like United States, no one has to sell gasoline because gas more or less sells itself. Consumers are definitely going to fuel up their cars — on average American households can be counted on to purchase approximately five full tanks of gas...
Bringing buyers and sellers together is not enough when it comes to the gig economy. Ease of use and secure transactions are paramount concerns for the truly modern marketplace, as Michael Ting, Hyperwallet’ s SVP for digital markets, told Karen Webster in the first of...
Marketplaces are great at connecting buyers and sellers of all types, including those who ply their trade in the deep dark cyber underworld. Michael Reitblat, CEO and cofounder of Forter, joined The Matchmaker Is In series hosts Karen Webster and "Matchmakers" author David Evans to...
In this week’s episode of "The Matchmaker Is In," Alidad Moghaddam, European MD of Trainline for Business and one-time matchmaker entrepreneur, joins Karen Webster and "Matchmakers" author David Evans to discuss what matchmakers — including himself — always tend to get wrong and how even...
