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Hired is a two-sided marketplace founded by Matt Mickiewicz that matches high-quality technology talent with job opportunities. Matt is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded 99Designs (a crowdsourced graphic design marketplace), Flippa.com (a marketplace for buying/selling websites and domains), and SitePoint.com (which he grew into a profitable multi-million dollar company as a teenager without outside funding).

PlaceFull is an online marketplace founded in 2011 by Ryan Hamlin and George Webb that enables merchants to offer real-time booking of spaces, services, camps, and classes. The company has raised over $2.5M in funding to date.

Envato is a network of creative marketplaces founded in 2006 by Collis Ta'eed, his wife, and best friend. The company operates multiple sites including Envato Market, Envato Studio, and Tuts+, serving millions of users for their creative projects. Bootstrapped since inception, Envato has grown into a major player in the creative economy space.

Creative Market was a marketplace for buying and selling handcrafted design content (fonts, graphics, icons, etc.) launched in 2011 by Aaron Epstein and co-founders. The team leveraged their existing 1 million-user Color Lovers community and executed a sophisticated seven-strategy playbook to simultaneously build buyer and seller demand: teaser page with $5 credits, viral referral program with tiered incentives, free goods program, favorable 70/30 commission terms, and relationship-based marketing. The marketplace grew to launch day with 70,000 signed-up buyers holding $350,000 in potential credits, generated $3,000 in sales on day one, and was acquired by Autodesk for an undisclosed amount 16 months after launch.