SkillPages: How The Biggest Marketplace You Never Heard Of Was Built – with Iain MacDonald

Iain MacDonald, SkillPages, Marketplace, Social Media, Subscription (Membership) Model

How do you build a marketplace – where you need both buyers and sellers to show up at the same time?

Iain MacDonald is the co-founder of SkillPages, the skill-based social network. The site has over 3 million members. I invited him to talk about how he built it.

Iain MacDonald

SkillPages

Iain MacDonald is the co-founder of SkillPages, the skill-based social network.

 

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