Stay-healthy April everyone!

The Marketplace Snippet from Speedinvest x team is back. On the first Monday of each month you can expect a good dose of content on ⭐network effects, platforms, and marketplaces ⭐in your inbox. 

This newsletter is created by Magda from the Speedinvest x-Team. You can follow her on twitter here: @PosMagda
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• 🤸‍♀️Physical health - a great list of fitness resources and online live training classes, and a dedicated list if you are in CET timezone. 
• 🧘‍♀️Mental health - Sam Harris, a renowned neuroscientist, writer and philosopher made his app Waking Up available for free during the next 30 days. If you are into yoga - here is a great library of re-recorded yoga sessions.
• 🎭Soul health - if you feel hungry for some culture, here is a list of museums that turned online, The Met Opera performances you can listen to from your couch, and private concerts online that you can enjoy from your kitchen.
• 💰Wallet health - list of stuff offered for free by startups featured in a VC cafe, and deals for businesses in the time of Covid-19
• 🧠Brain food - highly recommend How To Academy events, now also available online, featuring guests from Nobel Prize laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, also 450 Ivy League courses online for free will keep you busy
• 🐳And if you really need a Coronavirus retreat - Explore.org lets you observe animals’ freedom in the wildlife.
  

• ❗Speedinvest’s guide to government relief & financial aid schemes
• 💻A comprehensive guide to remote work, redesigning your workplace and a guide for managers by LifeLabsLearning

• 🐥How to solve the chicken and egg problem in marketplaces? How important is differentiated supply? How to prevent leakage? How to create marketplace defensibility and more - Listen to 20min VC with Alyssa Ravasio, founder & CEO of Hipcamp.
• 🤳The story of Cameo, the on-demand personalised celebrities recording platform, that in less than three years, managed to nail the supply-and-demand-side liquidity through the “producer evangelism strategy”, which was described by Geoffrey G. Parker in Platform Revolution book.
• 🎧Dan Hockenmaier, Casey Winters, and Lenny Rachitsky discuss in a Village Global podcast how marketplaces have evolved over the last several years, what are the possibilities for new vertical marketplaces and how to think about building liquidity in a marketplace.

• 🎤Former Chairman and CEO of Cisco John Chambers, shares invaluable learnings from navigating Cisco to unprecedented success through multiple major crises over 25 years. Interview with Matthew Jacobson from ICONIQ.
• 🌎Gitlab, an all-remote company with over 1200 employees distributed across 65 counties, shares what they learned about working remotely over the years.
• 🍝Deep into the red...read about the impact of the Coronavirus on the restaurant industry by Opentable.
• 📚Coronavirus tech-handbook - a living list of resources & links from the tech community.

• 💡Is there any white space left to build a consumer marketplace? “What so many people forget, however, is that many of our current incumbents actually disrupted the prior incumbents.” Sarah Tavel from Benchmark shares a great thought framework on how to approach it.
• 🎯What are the types of service marketplaces and what makes them successful? Read about winning strategies for service marketplaces by Julia Morrongiello.
• 📈When Networks meet SaaS - Sameer Singh discusses how startups can combine SaaS and network effects to gain structural advantages.
• 🎧An update on Consumer & Enterprise – fantastic episode of Invest Like the Best in which Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta share their knowledge about how to manage the current crisis, learnings from 2008/2009, how to adjust business value proposition and why you should model different scenarios.

• 🚀“In the war of attrition, history rewards the early and decisive actions” - Mark Suster shares his views on Funding in the time of Coronavirus.
• 📈“A downturn is the best time to position your company for growth. Your large competitors will likely be knocked sideways and unable to react.” - Pete Flint from NFX shares 28 Moves to Survive (& Thrive) in a Downturn.
• 💸Are VCs really investing at the same pace? Are Founders changing their fundraising plans? What percentage of Founders have made layoffs? Check out the very interesting insights from the NFX sentiment survey.
• 📚a16z compiled a Reading list for Leaders in Uncertain Times featuring most valuable articles on topics of leadership, grit, and managing a startup in times of uncertainty.

• 🎒Preply, online tutoring marketplace, raised $10M series A led by Hoxton Ventures to fuel growth in North America and Europe
• ✒️Notion, workplace productivity platform, raised $50 million from Index Ventures and other investors at a $2 billion valuation
• 🍔Hungry, a catering marketplace that connects businesses with independent chefs, raised a $20 million Series B led by Evolution VC Partners  and former Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb
• 📷Run the World, a US-based platform that enables online events, raised $4.3 million in seed funding led by a16z. In Europe, Hopin, a London-based, remote live online events company, raised a $6.5M round led by Accel.

• 🛴Tier launched a Heroes program and is offering free rides to healthcare workers.
• 👥CoachHub gives advice on how to get the most out of your remote team.
• 📱Refurbed, a marketplace for refurbished tech gadgets, raises $17M round led by Evli Growth Partners
• 🤸‍♀️MyClubs, a leading fitness aggregator in Austria and Switzerland, launches fitness classes streamed on Youtube
• 🌱Planetly, a Berlin-based B2B platform that helps companies calculate, reduce and offset their carbon footprint, announces its €5.2M funding round in Handelsblatt (for German speakers here)
• 📦Byrd, an e-commerce fulfillment platform, published an article on how the Coronavirus is influencing e-commerce and the shopping behavior of consumers.

• Erik Torenberg - Co-founder of VillageGlobal, follow for thoughts about business models, interesting threads, and newest podcast releases
• Jeff Jordan - General Partner at a16z, follow for first hand marketplace insights, and great resources 
• Josh Breinlinger - Managing Partner Jackson Square Ventures, as per bio “Big on marketplaces” - follow for insights from ex entrepreneur and marketplace expertise
  
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As you know, due to the COVID-19 pandemics we had to postpone the San Francisco Marketplace Conference to the 27th May 2020. We are working hard on moving the event 100% online and still provide you with the best marketplace content out there! We will announce further details soon. Stay tuned!  

Please check out our website or Twitter @marketplaceconf for updates.

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