Sonicbids: Solve The Headache Of Building A Marketplace – with Panos Panay
If you build a marketplace you need both sides to come. You want the buyers and the sellers to both be there at the same time, and neither wants to be there unless the other is there. You know the headache. How do you overcome it?
You are going to find out in this interview what today’s guest did. Panos Panay is the founder of Sonicbids, which connects musicians with promotors who book them for gigs. He launched the company in 2001 and sold it in 2013 to Backstage.
Also, what happens if one of your employees turns on you and starts to write nasty things about you online? It has happened to people, of course. You can’t tell your employees to stop reading it. You can’t shut it down because it’s the Internet. What do you do? Listen to what today’s guest did.
Panos Panay is the founder of Sonicbids, which is the leading platform for bands to book gigs and market themselves online.
Andrew: Coming up, are you wrestling with inner doubt? Watch this interview. Somewhere around the middle, today’s guest gets very open about his inner doubt, and what he did to overcome it. It just might help you when you go through that depression or that self-doubt spiral that, frankly we all as entrepreneurs, I think, go through. Also, if you build a marketplace you need both sides to come. You want the buyers and the sellers to both be there at the same time, and neither wants to be there unless the other is there. You know the headache. What do you do? How do you overcome it?
You are going to find out in this interview what today’s guest did. It might help you if you’re doing that, too. Finally, what happens if one of your employees turns on you and starts to write nasty things about you online? It has happened to people, of course. How would you overcome that? You can’t tell your employees to stop reading it. You can’t shut it down...
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