44 posts and columns on Etsy
Emotionless E-Commerce and the Death of the Joy of Gift-Giving
By and large, e-commerce sites are too easy, too impersonal, and — really — too convenient.New Seller Demand Crashes Handmade Marketplace Zibbet After Etsy’s Big Changes
A big opportunity for a small competitor.Etsy Overhauls Its Seller Policies in What Could Be a Controversial Move
Huge changes for the popular online marketplace.The Grommet Mulls a Wholesale Marketplace to Play Matchmaker for Inventors and Retailers
The platform that introduced you to SodaStream and Fitbit wants to help inventors put their products on retail store shelves.Square’s New Web Marketplace Highlights Twitter Commerce Possibilities
Square Market, the Web-based storefront from the commerce startup, is all about pushing products over social networks. That could prove interesting when Twitter beefs up its commerce products.News Byte
Payments Startup Balanced Raises $2 Million
Balanced, a startup that focuses on bringing payments systems to network-based companies like Airbnb and Kickstarter, announced Tuesday that it raised $2 million in venture capital. Andreessen Horowitz participated in the round, along with CollabFund and a number of current and former Facebook employees. The ten-person startup had already raised $1.4 million in funds from Ashton Kutcher, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, among others.Everybody’s a Curator: Flipboard’s Mike McCue Talks About New Version of Social Magazine (Video)
I made a magazine about Pop-Tarts. Anyone have a problem with that?News Byte