A new public Services Marketplace: Care.com
Care.com has filed to go public. It fills a niche in the services matchmaking market. But the economics need some proving.
Liquidity Services (LQDT): Where is the growth?
Liquidity services is a public online marketplace for surplus consumer and governmental goods. The market is large, but growth has been hard to sustain.
Case Studies in Industry Dominance
DealerTrack, Medidata, itradenetwork, and Blackboard have established depth in functionality and industry dominance in their respective verticals.
Industry Cloud Dominance
Some industry cloud providers spread across industries, some choose stay put in one industry and expand services–that’s industry dominance.
More on Tungsten/OB10
The combination of Tungsten and OB10 provides a public company window into the enormous e-invoicing and supply chain finance market.
Serial Verticalization
Some industry cloud platforms expand by applying the business processes they automate across industries. This is what I call Serial Verticalization.
Textura, Construction Cloud Provider hit with Fraud Claim
Textura, construction industry software platform was hit with a fraud claim by a short-seller. Is there anything to it?
Winner-Take-All or Some?
Platform economists like to talk about “winner-take-all” outcomes. But for many industry cloud platforms, the end-game looks more like “winner-take-some”.
A Match of Matchers: eLance and Odesk
The combination of elance and odesk provides some much needed consolidation to the services matchmaking marketplace.