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Why “Airbnb for event venues” websites all die/ venue marketplaces' fatal flaws

• kevinbracken 12y ago
  Background: this is a deck I made to explain to our investors why we killed Speakeasy, our event venue marketplace product. Now that our most recent product was acquired (Gymsurfing -> ClassPass) I am cleaning out our old assets and found this deck to share with HN
  • detaro 12y ago
    Just a warning, dropbox blocks access to often requested files. And HN has a tendency to create a lot of requests... So be prepared to provide a mirror
• bazizbaziz 12y ago
  What sort of things did you guys try to convince people not cut you out? It seems that the marketplace needs very compelling value-add (aside from discovery) in order to get people to not cut it out after discovery. Trying to be the marketplace for existing venues seems quite challenging as most have already figured out their their infrastructure (payment processing, customer support, insurance, reporting, etc).