I’m the CEO of Swap.com. We’ve set out to become the largest online swap market in the world. We let people list their unwanted items, like music and movies, on our website and swap them for stuff they do want.
Our business model requires users to place a great deal of trust both in our company [...]
We have all swapped things in our lives. For me swapping started in the lunch room in first grade. As I grew older, I continued to swap, trading cards, marbles, and sports equipment. Today, I trade tickets and toys for my kids. Most of these swaps have come through friends and family [...]
There are many responsibilities and dimensions to the role as CEO of an emerging company. ..strategy, market/customer focus, fund raising, modeling, team building, hiring-firing, road map, resource allocations, user experience, cash management, sustainability, execution…execution…execution. So much more.
If you are running an emerging company in essence you have an idea, probably some data to validate it [...]
Today we launched our Mobile App at Swap.com and it is available for the iPhone on Apple’s iTunes App Store. We are psyched about this milestone. I have been using pre-release versions of the app for weeks now and I think it is very cool.
I have talked to many other Internet execs at RueLaLa, Kayak, [...]
Our community members at Swap.com are people who are trying to make the most out of the stuff that they have. We learned that many are teachers and librarians who have joined Swap.com so that they could swap for books that they need in their classrooms. These folks spend money out of their [...]
It is Spring!
Based on the harsh winter that we have endured in Boston, it is great to see the sun higher in the sky and for longer hours each day. Despite the fact that it is still kind of cold here you can tell that the good weather is right around the corner.
Spring has many [...]
When we were about to launch Swap4Schools we talked to five schools to help us get it going. I was delighted that my alma mater of Fitchburg High School could be part of this. Rich Masciarelli, the FHS Principal, was excited about a way for the library, which has no budget for new books, would be [...]
Thanks to hosts Chrissy Coughlin and Diana Dean for the invitation to come onto their Radio Green Talk. The mission for their show is to get at the nexus of economic and environmental sustainability. It is a big mission. They have some great guests on their show to share their views and [...]
The Boston Globe has posted a feature article about Swap.com’s National Swap Day… a celebration of this age old way of getting things you want by exchanging things you have. We kicked off National Swap Day here in our hometown of Boston last week by hosting a swap event in Somerville that was attended by [...]
I participated in Gridley & Company’s 10th Annual Marketing -Inernet-Financial Technology Conference in New York yesterday. This post to share some reflections about the conference, attendees and information that was shared.
- Linda Gridley knows how to bring out some of the best private companies within the digital and financial technology industries. The roster of companies and executives [...]
