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 all live in communities. These communities have traditionally been the city, town or neighborhood that we physically live in. The organizations we are affiliated with. The Internet has taken this even further with the online sites/communities that we join and participate. Community is something that binds all of us to [...]
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 FoxBusiness for the shout out in a post about the top ways to get rid of something. I am a bit biased but I think Swap.com is surely right up there…we help people get rid of things… but they can get something back that they want as part of that effort. Now with Swap4Schools getting [...]
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 [...]
