Apparently, if you run a top e-commerce website, it pays to be slow. Unless you're Amazon.
Guest Post As a NYC based investor, it’s been pretty incredible to watch New York’s startup scene grow into a dynamic tech playground over the past few years.
Popular handmade-goods marketplace Etsy has shared some eye-popping stats about its performance in 2012, with CEO Chad Dickerson calling it a "breakthough year."
The promise is simple: sell anything, anywhere, from your phone. No matter where you want to sell it: eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, or Facebook.
Handmade marketplace Etsy has launched a cool new Android app to help connect mobile buyers.
If you are truly awful at gift-shopping, you MUST READ this. It will save you from resorting to bad gag gifts yet again.
Think $30 million is a lot to pay for produce? Not when it gives money back. Kabbage, which gives loans to online sellers, got $30 million in funding today, led by Thomvest Ventures.
It's like that ABC show Wife Swap, but with developers instead of wives and probably a bit less awkwardness and drama. Probably.
Guest Post While everyone is fretting over the Asian slowdown, the European debt crisis, and the fiscal cliff, a few entrepreneurs in Latin America are rapidly building businesses in their home countries and beyond.
Etsy, the uber-cool marketplace for all things handmade and vintage, has put its intricately crocheted foot down: no more selling body parts. Or bodily fluids. Hair and teeth, however, are still allowed.
A.J. Steigman is the chief executive of Soletron, a social e-commerce platform. Peter Thiel is a legendary venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal. Both are internationally ranked “life master” chess players.
In perhaps the oddest investment strategy ever seen, Steigman …
New York City’s a great spot for e-commerce innovation, and payments startup Dwolla and online marketplace Etsy are taking advantage of that fact by organizing NYC’s first-ever Ecommerce Hack Day.
The event won’t be your typical hackathon, Dwolla’s business development …
Just a few short days ago, The Fancy added social commerce to its Pinterest-like discovery and sharing service. Today, the fast-moving startup added local commerce via Zaarly’s peer-to-peer marketplace.
Zaarly is simple: You need something done, you find a neighbor …
“Community” online marketplace Etsy is going global, despite already being global. Using a new $40 million round of funding led by Index Ventures, the company is trying grow even more by focusing on its thousands of sellers.
“With all the …
This week, we told you about Etsy’s new grant program to get women into a summer school for hackers.
Marc Hedlund (pictured) is Etsy’s vice president in charge of all things engineering-related, and he’s actually the one who spearhearded the …
Etsy’s community is famously female-driven, so it makes sense that the company would look to women in hosting a developer initiative, as well.
The company is an online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods, and it boasts a huge audience …
Brooklyn Beta, a conference in New York focused on the intersection of design and development, is launching a new incubator today to connect those two classes of software creators.
The program, called Brooklyn Beta SummerCamp, has some big names behind …
Hipswap, a Craigslist-like marketplace for local items, has launched its service in several cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta.
Craigslist has long been the go-to place to buy and sell stuff locally, but the web site …
Stitch Labs, a startup that helps small businesses manage inventory, orders, and shipping, announced today it has raised $1 million in seed funding from True Ventures.
Co-founder Jake Gasaway told VentureBeat in an interview that Stitch Labs really took off …
Stitch Labs, provider of an inventory management service for small retailers, has integrated its service with online craft marketplace Etsy.
You might not think that the people who make crocheted pot holders and carved wooden iPhone docks have inventory management …
