(6) kaputt.de: Building a B2C repair marketplace
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English - February 25, 2021 19:40 - 22 minutes - 18.6 MBNon-Profit Business Management circularity circulareconomy circularbusiness sustainability businessmodels startup corporate kreislaufwirtschaft paas Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Building a marketplace requires growing two customer groups at the same time: The buyers and the sellers. Providing platform services that compete with the sellers' offerings adds another twist to the challenge. In this episode, Tobias Kronawitter, founder of kaputt.de, shares his experience in helping people extend the lifetime of smartphones, smartwatches, coffee machines, and game consoles by matching them with local repair shops and offering repair kits.
How kaputt.de solved the chicken-egg problem of a three-sided market place
Building a marketplace requires growing two customer groups at the same time: The buyers and the sellers. Providing platform services that compete with the sellers' offerings adds another twist to the challenge. In this episode, Tobias Kronawitter, founder of kaputt.de, shares his experience in helping people extend the lifetime of smartphones, smartwatches, coffee machines, and game consoles by matching them with local repair shops and offering repair kits.