Live Your Edge Podcast

How to Create a Successful Online Marketplace w/ Ed Vincent

Episode Summary

Ed Vincent is the co-founder of Festival Pass. He has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and became an investment banker. He had his first entrepreneurial venture in an e-commerce company called City Stuff.

Episode Notes

He created a Marketing tech company and had data consultancy where he learned a lot about the world of subscription based marketing and what makes gross margins important which evolved to Festival Pass.

In this episode you’ll learn about:

  1. route density and global density
  2. Homogenous and heterogenous inventory 
  3. High and Low frequency price
  4. Medium and Long tail

“The ability to take multiple data points from a consumer based upon their behavior, their interest, [is a]  lifetime value  to the platform.” - Ed Vincent

“It's a collection of multiple experiences that kind of led me to this. I tried to choose businesses that I'm passionate about.” - Ed Vincent

Ed just like Steve Jobs believes that you can't connect the dots. Looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. And it seems like you drew a lot of your current execution ability, operations ability from previous businesses that you've been part of for help.

He shared that the ones that succeeded are the ones that just persevered through, and didn't give up in the face of adversity and just kept moving.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edvincent

Website: https://festivalpass.com/