Dominic Monn
@dmonn.com
Founder of MentorCruise.com – I like to build difficult things.
Meh, I'd be surprised if failure rates in marketplaces and SaaS wouldn't be eerily similar.
Someone that's engulfed in the surfing community and has contacts at major surfing shops makes a decision to run a surfboard rental marketplace vs. a B2B surf shop management SaaS.
Who wins? Even odds imo
Someone that's engulfed in the surfing community and has contacts at major surfing shops makes a decision to run a surfboard rental marketplace vs. a B2B surf shop management SaaS.
Who wins? Even odds imo
January 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Meh, I'd be surprised if failure rates in marketplaces and SaaS wouldn't be eerily similar.
Someone that's engulfed in the surfing community and has contacts at major surfing shops makes a decision to run a surfboard rental marketplace vs. a B2B surf shop management SaaS.
Who wins? Even odds imo
Someone that's engulfed in the surfing community and has contacts at major surfing shops makes a decision to run a surfboard rental marketplace vs. a B2B surf shop management SaaS.
Who wins? Even odds imo
It's the common super recycled advice, but honestly in 2025 I see fewer people make money with half-baked boilerplate-course-microSaaS combos than I do with a proper marketplace...
One of my mentees who runs a surfing marketplace just broke $1M ARR
One of my mentees who runs a surfing marketplace just broke $1M ARR
January 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's the common super recycled advice, but honestly in 2025 I see fewer people make money with half-baked boilerplate-course-microSaaS combos than I do with a proper marketplace...
One of my mentees who runs a surfing marketplace just broke $1M ARR
One of my mentees who runs a surfing marketplace just broke $1M ARR
This is coming from someone who built a B2C talent marketplace, simply because he didn't know any better.
January 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is coming from someone who built a B2C talent marketplace, simply because he didn't know any better.
Yup, added China to get a managed challenge every time now
January 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Yup, added China to get a managed challenge every time now
Stripe is fine. We registered with VAT MOSS and use Taxjar to monitor the US.
December 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Stripe is fine. We registered with VAT MOSS and use Taxjar to monitor the US.
- aggressive marketing towards small startups to reach compliance (who don't need it)
- struggling with proper compliance themselves
- charging 3x processing fees
- bad mouthing all other solutions without nuance
- paying / giving priority support to industry influencers to spread the word
- struggling with proper compliance themselves
- charging 3x processing fees
- bad mouthing all other solutions without nuance
- paying / giving priority support to industry influencers to spread the word
December 20, 2024 at 10:34 AM
- aggressive marketing towards small startups to reach compliance (who don't need it)
- struggling with proper compliance themselves
- charging 3x processing fees
- bad mouthing all other solutions without nuance
- paying / giving priority support to industry influencers to spread the word
- struggling with proper compliance themselves
- charging 3x processing fees
- bad mouthing all other solutions without nuance
- paying / giving priority support to industry influencers to spread the word
The market is going up in flames, I don't care about the specific players.
December 20, 2024 at 10:32 AM
The market is going up in flames, I don't care about the specific players.