Marketplace Founders Afterwork
Running a marketplace startup?
Yorkseed and Tison.io are hosting a peer exchange for people building two-sided businesses. Liquidity, take rate, which side to subsidise, why the supply side keeps churning.
Come when you get off work. Happy hour at all & sundry runs to 7pm.
WHAT TO EXPECT
🕐 Drop in any time between 5:00pm and 7:30pm
🍸 A bar and bistro by Columbus Circle. Happy hour until 7pm
💬 Founders who have solved the cold start problem, and some who are still in it
🤝 Real connections
WHO THIS IS FOR
✅ Marketplace and platform founders at any stage
✅ Growth and ops people working on supply or demand
✅ Investors who back marketplaces
✅ Anyone about to launch one and wondering which side to build first
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Yorkseed is a curated, application-reviewed network of startup founders raising capital and investors actively deploying it. Yorkseed Connect, our deal platform, handles discovery, diligence, and introductions in one place, across 50+ city hubs worldwide.
🔗 yorkseed.co
Tison.io is a mission-driven boutique software and GTM engineering agency working exclusively with bootstrapped and pre-seed founders on the journey from Zero to One. Tison sources its talent from DirectEd Development, an elite academy for top 0.1% African tech prodigy that has collaborations with companies like Lovable, Neo4j and Canva.
🔗 tison.io
🔗 Check out our other NYC founder events this week:
💻 Bootstrapped & Solo Founders Afterwork (Fri, Sep 11)
For founders building with small teams, limited capital, and a focus on customers and revenue.
https://luma.com/uuprbwf6
💡 Curious About Starting a Startup? (Sat, Sep 12)
Talk through your idea with founders who have already taken the first steps.
https://luma.com/6uy57p58
🤝 Co-Founder Speed Dating Picnic (Sun, Sep 13)
Meet potential co-founders, founding hires, and early-stage collaborators.
https://luma.com/1gx7o99r
🛒 Marketplace Founders Afterwork (Mon, Sep 14)
A peer exchange about liquidity, take rates, supply, demand, and marketplace growth.
https://luma.com/hb1r9l8m
📈 Seed-to-Series-A Growth Hacking Exchange (Tue, Sep 15)
Swap real growth experiments, results, costs, and lessons with founders and operators.
https://luma.com/t5yhhipc
🌇 Women Founders Social (Wed, Sep 16)
Close the week with women founders, investors, operators, and allies in the East Village.
https://luma.com/tison.io
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