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Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System
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Gumroad, the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia, officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding from investors Accel Partners, Chris Sacca, Max Levchin, SV Angel, Josh Kopelman, Seth Goldstein, Naval Ravikrant, Collaborative Fund and Danny Rimer....
Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System
Dogbnb: DogVacay Wants To Help You Find A Boarding Alternative For Your Four-Legged Friends
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As a former dog owner, I know how challenging it can be to find the best care for your four-legged-friend when going on vacation or taking a trip. While boarding dogs at kennels is an option, I always prefer to have a dog sitter at an actual home (or at...
Not Your Mother's eBay, Threadflip Launches Online Consignment Shop
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Threadflip is a new marketplace coming out of private beta today that is making it insanely easy to sell used clothes, shoes, jewelry and other accessories online. The secret to the San Francisco company is that it handles all of the hard work for you. For example, once an...
Marketplace arrives in 13 new countries
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Let the downloading begin. I’m happy to report that today we’re opening 13 new storefronts around the world for Windows Phone apps and games. The new Marketplaces are Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Throw in the ones we launched earlier...
Can There Be an Etsy for Fine Art?
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Meet Cureeo, a new marketplace for artists and collectors....
The Mozilla Marketplace is officially open for HTML5 app submissions
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Just as we heard last week, the Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developers to submit their HTML5 apps. In a blog post today, Mozilla expanded on where it expects the Marketplace to go, noting that for starters, the platform will focus on "mobile apps" that will run in...
Red hot Codecademy gets $10m from Index and KPCB
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Much-vaunted New York teaching startup Codecademy is taking on a new round of funding, adding Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins as investors — and raising $10 million to help it expand globally. It’s fair to say that the site, which provides game-like online courses to teach people how to code,...
Now At 25M Users, Wix Brings Third-Party Apps To Its Website Builder With New Marketplace
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Hard to believe, but the now-popular Iraeli-American startup, Wix.com, was founded in February 2006 — back when Tumblr was only a twinkle in David Karp’s eye. Since then, the company has made its name as a platform that allowed anyone, luddite or not, to build Flash-enabled websites and widgets in...
Zaarly Storefronts give talented New Yorkers a site for 'hustling on the side'
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On any given weekday, you can find New York twentysomethings Jojo, Mohammad and Austin at their respective corporate offices building PowerPoint decks and Excel models. But come the weekend, the three friends climb to the roof of a West Village apartment building to turn salvaged wine crates into one-of-a-kind coffee...
Apptopia gives app developers an exit strategy
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The mobile app boom has attracted legions of developers hoping to make it rich like Instagram or OMGPOP. But the reality is that turning an app into a profitable business is still a long-shot proposition. But at least now developers can get something back for the investment by selling their apps...
Windows Phone Marketplace now available in Bulgaria, 12 other countries
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Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace is opening in 13 new regions this month, bringing the grand total to 54 countries. Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela will all be treated to localized Windows Phone Marketplaces, allowing developers to release specific apps...
Microsoft puts Windows Phone 7 app developers on notice of four new Marketplace policies
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As the poet once said, "Mo' apps, mo' problems", or something like that. The Windows Phone Marketplace continues to grow and with more eyeballs on it, Microsoft is making sure devs know the rules that will keep their apps in the store instead of on the sideline. Trademark and...
Nokia-branded Windows Phone Marketplace spotted in latest Lumia 900 software
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Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace on the Lumia 900 is now being branded with Nokia's own logo. The minor change does not alter the functionality of the Marketplace, but it's one of the first signs of Nokia's influence on the Windows Phone operating system. Nokia Lumia 900 devices shipping in...
Site builder behemoth Wix premieres new app marketplace for 3rd party developers
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Wix, the site builder behemoth that recently threw its weight behind HTML 5, is now reaching platform status as it opens up its 25 million+ users to developers through a new app marketplace. Premiering with just 25 apps today, the Wix App Market has the potential to contort Wix into a competitor of services...
Third Pivot’s The Charm? Events Site Ravn Becomes Flash Sales Site Touch Of Modern
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No one ever called a limit on the number pivots a company can do, right? So here’s the latest at a company we’ve been watching for a while now. RAVN, an event planning and sharing app that itself was the product of a pivot from the developers behind “experiences marketplace” Skyara,...
If You Can Think It, You Can Buy It: Makeably Debuts A Marketplace For Custom-Made Goods
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Love Etsy, but looking for something even more unique? Makeably, a new marketplace for custom-made goods, can help. The site, founded by two ex-Googlers and longtime friends, Ryan Hayward and Anastasia Leng, has just launched into beta, offering makers a new way to manage their custom work requests online – a process...
GoodData CEO throws cold water on the 'big data' hype, says 'we're still data-bankrupt!'
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You’ll often hear “Big Data” startups promising to help companies unlock the true value of their data, but are they delivering? GoodData, a startup with some heavy-duty venture capital investment, announced a new strategy to take “Big Data” out of the hands of IT, and into the purview of...
Facebook may take on Craigslist with a new Marketplace section
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Social network giant Facebook might be recycling an old idea as a way for it to generate a new source of revenue and become just a little bit more useful to its users. That idea? Classified ads and job listings, which first appeared on the site years ago as...
HTML5 is a fat man's bag of surprises
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This guest post is written by Mozilla’s Ron Piovesan. A recent VentureBeat post entitled “Why HTML5 provided more tricks than treats in 2012” outlined a series of reason why, in the author’s view, HTML5 failed to deliver in 2012. The article was oft tweeted, but it, like the headline, was...
Visually launches a marketplace to put its community of 45,000 infographic designers to work
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As we’ve said before, infographics have quickly become the bane of the Web since exploding in popularity over the past year. The amount of poor designs and empty stats out there are enough to make you cringe, but that’s because infographics aren’t any different from any other sort of design; there’s good...
Third Time's A Charm? Amazon Tries Again With Launch Of New Vertical, Amazon Wine
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Amazon.com announced the launch of a new marketplace today, Amazon Wine, which offers customers a selection of over 1,000 wines from various wineries around the U.S. The new store – Amazon’s third attempt at entering this market – arrives just ahead of the holidays, providing shoppers with tools that will help...
Startup Spotlight: FUNnerator helps parents find the best summer camps for their kids
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Katie Thompson As a former venture capitalist with Trilogy Partners, Katie Thompson has seen her fair share of business plans over the years. But none resonated as much FUNnerator. That’s because it’s her business plan. The 42-year-old venture capitalist and former Microsoftie partnered earlier this year with former Onvia executive Kristen Hamilton...
Zillow adds marketplace for rental professionals
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Zillow Rentals is a new marketplace that launched today and provides rental professionals free tools to help manage listings. This comes on the heels of Zillow’s acquisition of RentJuice this past June. Now, all of RentJuice’s solutions for rental professionals are under the Zillow Rentals brand. “The RentJuice acquisition four months ago laid...
Smartphone Patent Wars Show the System Works, Patent Chief Says
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David Kappos, head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, said the smartphone patent wars are a natural byproduct of competition in a highly innovative new marketplace. The patent battles, he said, are proof that the system works, rather than evidence of companies' exploitation of weaknesses in the patent...
Former Yahoo EMEA exec launches p2p services marketplace Milk.ly
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Does you car need a decent scrubbing? Need someone to go pick up your groceries at the store because you’re on a tight deadline at work? Could you use someone to install that damn Ikea closet in your kid’s room before the weekend? Not unlike TaskRabbit, Viatask and Agent Anything...
Sony begins testing online Entertainment Network Store
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Sony's store has not been officially announced, but the company has confirmed that it's testing out a new marketplace. [Read more]...
ParkPlease Partners With Limos.com To Help Users Avoid This Weekend's ParkApocalypse In San Francisco
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There’s a ton of stuff happening this weekend in San Francisco. There’s the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. There’s Fleet Week. There’s the America’s Cup. There are San Francisco Giants playoff games. There’s a San Francisco 49ers matchup. There’s the Italian Heritage Parade in North Beach and the Castro Street Fair....
ParkPlease Partners With Limos.com To Help Users Avoid This Weekend's ParkApocalypse In San Francisco
Don’t mess with credit: Why the future of payments is already in your pocket.
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Everywhere you look, someone is working on a new way to let you pay for stuff. It’s obvious why: Paying for stuff is the most fundamental activity in commerce, something you do many times a day, wherever you are, even at home, even in secret. Thus anyone who hits on...
Another Day, Another New Marketplace: Park Please Tackles City Parking
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If beta parking marketplace Park Please looks familiar, it’s because the user experience was inspired by apartment hunting app PadMapper. “Parking totally sucks here. We wanted a map that requires less clicks and less searching to keep the site focused on location and price,” says Co-Founder and CEO Charlie...
With "Wish Lists," Grabio Creates the One Thing Most "Sell Your Stuff" Marketplaces Lack: Liquidity
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If there was ever a time to dethrone Craigslist, it’s now. The company’s bare bones online marketplace has been a source of “macro-angst” for years. Yet no one’s been able to displace it because that’s where the buyers, renters and job hunters are. Without those people, a marketplace is...
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