Launching a platform business is difficult and complex. For entrepreneurs focused on sharing, it can be even more challenging, especially if they operate a two-sided marketplace.
To lower the barriers to entry, a range of services have emerged to support sharing economy and platform cooperative startups. The services allow entrepreneurs to save money, and better manage users and service providers, while also giving them more space to focus on their core business – sharing.
“Ultimately if you want to provide true on-demand services, you need to increase your scale in order to survive, or the economies of scale don’t work out,” said Derek Cheng, senior director of corporate and content marketing at Tipalti. “A lot of sharing economy companies have fairly low margins, and don’t want to burn capital on hiring staff to do mundane things,” he says.
In this listicle, we highlight Tipalti and several other companies that offer services to Article source: https://www.shareable.net/10-companies-easing-barriers-to-entry-to-sharing-economy-and-platform-cooperative-startups/
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