With all the talk of VC💰 drying up, I started to think about what this might mean for aspiring marketplace founders.
This (hopefully) helpful graphic is heavily based on Casey Winters & Gilad Horev
's excellent essay on marketplace types (a must-read 🙇♂️).
Using their definitions, I assume that there is a directly proportional relationship between:
fee level → operating expenses → starting capital needed.
Obviously, in this market, lower starting capital needed (staring from left in green) is better.
⚠️ Disclaimer: I’m not a VC.