| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.10.2023 | Have Someone Else Do Your Labor on Labor Day with Crowd Sourcing | WeGoLook Consumer Process
Nationwide, USA (PRWEB) August 31, 2012 -- The three day weekend is quickly approaching! If you are like most people that extra day off is an opportunity to catch up on life. For many, it will be a weekend full of ... |
| 05.05.2018 | How did Thumbtack win the on-demand services market? | Earlier today, the services marketplace Thumbtack held a small conference for 300 of its best gig economy workers at an event space in San Francisco.
For the nearly ten-year-old company the event was designed to introduce some new features ... |
| 28.03.2016 | How To Nab A Raise, Sell Old Stuff And, Basically, Make More Money | Day 28: Could you be earning more money? Here’s how to take advantage of opportunities that lead to extra cash. This post is part of FORBES’ 30 Day Money Challenge. Follow along on Twitter with #30DaysOfMoney or with the timeline posted her... |
| 14.09.2015 | 81 Sites To Find Side Gigs To Earn More Money Now | Who doesn't need more money? If you're not up for forex trading, selling an organ on the black market or dabbling in illicit activity, income on the side is easier to find than ever before, thanks to the burgeoning freelance economy and the... |
| 14.07.2015 | Смерть стартапа: История провала «Airbnb для парковок» — сервиса Hello Parking Статьи редакции | Создатели сервиса для краткосрочной аренды парковок Hello Parking Крис Хугверф и Нил Ханна после закрытия стартапа в 2011 году опубликовали материал о том, как развивался проект и почему он провалился. Спустя два года Крис Хугверф написал е... |
| 25.07.2014 | DeliveryCircle wants to be the next big sharing-economy hit | On the Internet, everything is for hire. Such is the philosophy behind the burgeoning sharing-economy ecosystem and its latest aspirant, DeliveryCircle.
In an era where you can rent out your car with RelayRides, or hire somebody to do your ... |
| 12.06.2014 | TaskRabbit CEO: Better Job Market Hasn’t Dampened Appeal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Leah Busque founded TaskRabbit in Boston back in 2008 (under the name RunMyErrand), the terms “sharing economy” and “collaborative consumption” weren’t part of the tech l... |
| 09.12.2013 | Key Highlights from Venture+ Forum mHealth Summit 2013 | Lois Drapin, Founder & CEO of the Drapin Group provides a recap of the Venture+ Forum held the day before the official start of the mHealth Summit 2013.
Yes, it’s true. Sunday’s Venture+ Forum, one of the day-long events that takes plac... |
| 03.08.2013 | 7 questions to ask your startup lawyer | Scales of Justice. Photo via Eric the Fish
Not all lawyers are created equal — and for an early-stage startup, the counsel you choose can seriously impact the course of your business.
From getting slammed with surprise fees to getting passe... |
| 28.03.2013 | Wal-Mart dabbles with ‘sharing economy’ to implement same-day delivery | Wal-Mart is dipping its toe into the sharing economy. The iconic seller of mass-produced, cheaply made, inexpensive, goods is considering a new crowdsourced delivery system.
Getting an edge on home-delivery is a continuous battle amongst e-... |
| 14.03.2013 | Eric Koester of Zaarly: I’m Bullish on the Midwest [VIDEO] | In 2011, Zaarly probably set a record by raising $1 million in funding just three weeks after they started. What began as an idea at Startup Weekend LA soon had the backing of investors like Paul Bucheit, Naval Ravikant, and Ashton Kutcher.... |
| 11.03.2013 | The Enterprise Is Not Sexy, But It Has More Presence Here At SXSW Than Ever Before | Yammer CEO and Founder David Sacks said to me in an interview this past weekend that SXSW is showing that suddenly enterprise technology is sexy.
Sorry, I don’t buy it. The enterprise is as sexy as a humming rack of servers. That may be sex... |
| 09.03.2013 | Zaarly Shutters Its Reverse Craigslist Marketplace, Goes All In On Virtual Storefronts As Co-Founder Exits | When Arrington first introduced the world to the concept of Zaarly two years ago, my first thought was “a fast, mobile way for me to request booze delivery on demand? Sign me up.” But my second and third and so on were: “Wait, why should I ... |
| 09.03.2013 | Zaarly phases out buyer-centric marketplace to focus on sellers | On Zaarly’s San Francisco homepage, you can order French toast cupcakes with maple buttercream and candied bacon and receive skeeball training from a world champion. French toast cupcakes and skeeball seem pleasant enough, until you realize... |
| 09.03.2013 | Zaarly phases out buyer-centric marketplace to focus on sellers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
On Zaarly’s San Francisco homepage, you can order... |
| 11.02.2013 | Yardsellr, The “eBay For Facebook,” Becomes The Latest Casualty In Social & Local Commerce | As Facebook’s growth began to accelerate exponentially in 2009 and 2010 and its platform began to emerge, the opportunities for businesses to leverage and apply its social graph in other industries seemed endless. In particular, many saw th... |
| 03.02.2013 | 6 technologies and innovations that could finally go mainstream in 2013 | Living in the technology and startup ecosystem, we are constantly bombarded with the latest hot new app, device, technology, or company. They get their 15 minutes of fame and then something newer, hotter, and latest-er comes along to replac... |
| 31.01.2013 | 10 Views On What To Look For In An Investor | Money – most startup founders need it at some point. But when you’re raising outside capital, cash can come at a very high price if you’re not on the same page as your investors.
Where many startup founders go wrong in the fundraising proce... |
| 14.01.2013 | Travelocity Takes A Page From Airbnb’s Book And Launches Concierge Service | Facing stronger competition from disruptive travel startups like Airbnb and the behemoth of Priceline/Kayak/Booking.com, Sabre-owned Travelocity is looking to up its game with extras. Today the company announced that it would launch a new c... |
| 06.01.2013 | Craigslist Slowly Expands Its Maps To Items For Sale, Starting First With Yard Sales And Flea Markets | Craigslist has started to add maps to its sales listings, letting people view not just what items are being sold, but where those items are located on a map. Craigslist appears to be starting off with group selling events — garage sales, ya... |
| 30.12.2012 | 10 Game Changing Tech Trends in 2013; Young Entrepreneurs Weigh In | The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, ... |
| 28.11.2012 | Zaarly at Mobile Madness: 2013 a Big Year for the ‘Peer Economy’ | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When local commerce startup Zaarly set out to create specialized home pages for people selling goods and services, the company had plenty of digital expertise to draw from. Bu... |
| 21.11.2012 | Startup News: Ev Williams Hires a Literary Darling and Branch Finally Lets You Bro Out | Mr. Williams. (Photo: Wikipedia.org)
Power Literary Hire: Twitter cofounder Ev Williams’s new publishing tool, Medium, just added an impressive member to its team. Kate Lee, a former literary agent from International Creative Management (IC... |
| 16.11.2012 | Y Combinator-Backed Balanced Raises $1.4M To Provide A Payment Platform For Peer-To-Peer Marketplaces | There are a growing number of peer-to-peer marketplaces out there, helping to match up workers and sellers with products or skills, with buyers who wish to take advantage of them. But for those marketplaces to work, they don’t just need pay... |
| 02.11.2012 | Techie Do-Gooders: How NYC Startups are Helping the Sandy Relief Effort | Foursquare’s temporary HQ. (Photo: Twitter)
Given recent events, Betabeat decided to forego our Rumor Roundup this week for a roundup of all the things startups are doing to help get New York back to normal following Hurricane Sandy.
It did... |
| 24.10.2012 | Robert Scoble and Guy Kawasaki on the tech trends that will shape the future | SAN FRANCISCO — Investor and author Guy Kawasaki joined renowned technology futurologist Robert Scoble for a frank discussion about the biggest technology trends.
Scoble, who travels the world interviewing thousands of big-shot technology e... |
| 24.10.2012 | Robert Scoble and Guy Kawasaki on the tech trends that will shape the future | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Investor and author Guy Kawasaki joined renowned technology futurologist Robert Scoble for a frank discussion about the... |
| 02.10.2012 | eBay Is Now Selling Live Services, Launches Secretguru As A Beta Pilot In The UK | The auction giant eBay today is taking one more step in its transformation into a wider online marketplace. It has launched a new service in the UK called Secretguru— a concierge-style service where people can buy time from professionals in... |
| 23.09.2012 | Iterations: Recruiting The New Labor Force | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR at Javelin Venture Partners. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Most Apple fans become slightly uncomfortable at the sight of Apple’s latest television commercials featuring celebrities talking aiml... |
| 05.09.2012 | Zaarly “unleashes the awesome” with Storefronts, a fresh take on local commerce | Zaarly, the local custom commerce company, is releasing the most significant update of its short existence today. Originally conceived as a “want engine” that allows buyers to order customized services or products from local artisans, Zaarl... |
| 05.09.2012 | Local Commerce Platform Zaarly Launches Storefronts To Showcase Its Top Service Providers | Last year, Zaarly launched its real-time mobile marketplace to connect users who need stuff done with those who will do it for them. But Zaarly is going beyond just making its platform available to all comers, and helping some of its top se... |
| 05.09.2012 | Zaarly “unleashes the awesome” with Storefronts, a fresh take on local commerce | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Zaarly, the local custom commerce company, is rel... |
| 07.08.2012 | Куда ведет Google Fiber? | Anonymous 7 августа 2012, 13:04 Куда ведет Google Fiber?
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| 29.07.2012 | Google Fiber: 20% Of Kansas City, MO Neighborhoods Have Already Met Their Sign-Up Goals | That was fast. Just a few days ago, Google officially opened registration for the 1 gigabit fiber network it is launching on both the Kansas and Missouri sides of Kansas City. Within just two days, more than 20% of the eligible neighborhood... |
| 24.07.2012 | Startup News: Shop ‘Local’ Edition | (flickr.com/nataliemaynor)
Shop ‘til you drop Shopkick—a location-based shopping app which rewards shoppers for walking into stores and interacting with products—has just announced a partnership with Macy’s. As of last week, customers at Ma... |
| 17.07.2012 | Zaarly Anywhere: buy anything you see online, custom made for you | Zaarly, the online marketplace where users find and hire talented local builders and artisans, is announcing a new “Zaarly Anywhere” initiative that allows any site to enable offline commerce from online content.
This comes just a month aft... |
| 17.07.2012 | Zaarly Anywhere: buy anything you see online, custom made for you | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Zaarly, the online marketplace where users find a... |
| 17.07.2012 | Zaarly Expands Web Presence, Launches API To Help Publishers Monetize Content | For many, the appeal of realtime, local commerce platforms like Zaarly is evident almost immediately. For those unfamiliar, the mobile-centric reverse Craigslist allows users to post requests to Zaarly’s app — for anything from data entry t... |
| 28.06.2012 | Fast-Growing Luxury Vacation Club Inspirato Quietly Brings In $15.5M From DAG and Millennium | Collaborative consumption — generally, marketplaces for buying and selling access to products and services — may bring to mind startups like TaskRabbit and Zaarly for tasks, or short-term rental service Airbnb.
But Inspirato is bringing the... |
| 19.06.2012 | Startup News: New Dating Site Lets You Check Out Your Friends’ Friends; The Fancy Goes DIY | Now for sale on The Fancy: Cookie Monster cupcakes. (Photo: The Fancy)
The new OKCupid TheDatable, a new social dating site, allows users to tag their single or, more selectively, “datable” Facebook friends—so that prospective dates can bro... |
| 18.06.2012 | The Fancy and Zaarly team up to offer stylish local commerce | 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 ... |
| 18.06.2012 | The Fancy and Zaarly team up to offer stylish local commerce | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Just a few short days ago, The Fancy added social... |
| 12.06.2012 | ZURB Acquires Design Database And Community Pattern Tap | Interactive design and design strategy firm ZURB today announced that it has acquired Pattern Tap, “a place where designers can find inspiration and study patterns of user interaction.” ZURB, which has released many of its internally develo... |
| 03.05.2012 | New Finds At TNW Shows Europe Is Nailing It | European startup conference The Next Web (and now competing blog, hello guys), which took place in Amsterdam last week, was covered in full by seven TNW bloggers who wrote over 30 posts about all major announcements, speeches and competitio... |
| 14.04.2012 | The New Grabio Lets You Grab Classified Deals On The Go | Grabio has been around for about a year but they’ve recently updated the app and added a number of features. What does it do? Essentially it’s a mobile Craigslist with notifications and location-based searches for classified listings. You c... |
| 11.04.2012 | Why a remote workforce is bad for startups | It seems like every company, every article, and every startup CEO today proclaims that the workforce is changing, and the need to be in the same physical space no longer exists. Sure, we’d all like to think it is. Heck, I spent years buildi... |
| 11.04.2012 | Why a remote workforce is bad for startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It seems like every company, every article, and e... |
| 29.03.2012 | Announcing XSITE June 14: Evernote, Uber, Zaarly, IBM’s Watson, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Innovators, start your engines. The economy is ramping up, and so is the innovation scene here in Boston and across the U.S.
For the past three years—starting with the theme “... |
| 20.03.2012 | After Ditching Auctions, Mobile Marketplace EggDrop Hits Half A Million Downloads | EggDrop, essentially a mobile app alternative to Craigslist, is starting to pick up steam. The company now boasts half a million downloads of its app on iOS and Android, with $8 million in listings from across the 50 U.S. states and the U.K... |
| 08.03.2012 | “Reverse Craigslist” Zaarly Celebrates Its Birthday With A New Reputation System | Call it a victory of emotion over technology.
Today Zaarly is launching version 2.0 of its “reverse Craigslist,” where people can ask for everything from a beer to help with data entry. The biggest change is that the buying and selling proc... |
| 08.03.2012 | Zaarly swaps anonymity for identity in refreshed mobile marketplace | With the rise of mobile marketplaces, outsourcing tedious or mundane tasks to a willing gopher has never been easier. Thursday, one startup seeks to make these mobile conveniences less intimidating for the masses.
Zaarly, one year after mak... |
| 08.03.2012 | Zaarly swaps anonymity for identity in refreshed mobile marketplace | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With the rise of mobile marketplaces, outsourcing tedious or mundane tasks to a willing gopher has never been easier. Thursday, one sta... |
| 29.02.2012 | Justin.tv’s Namesake Founder Takes On Task Services With Exec | Justin.tv has already gone in two directions. The main one is Twitch.tv, a video game-focused version of the original video streaming site, that by all accounts has booming traffic and revenue. The other one is SocialCam, a mobile video app... |
| 30.01.2012 | Lance Armstrong joins Mobli’s board of directors | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Mobli, a video sharing website, can add Lance Arm... |
| 01.01.2012 | The Internet Is People | There’s always been a tension on the Internet between humans and algorithms. In the early days, Yahoo was a human-curated index, remember? But humans couldn’t keep up, and the algorithms took over. Today, the human factor is rising in impor... |
| 12.12.2011 | Backed By Angels, Antengo Takes On Craigslist With Realtime Mobile Classifieds | You may not have heard of it, but San Diego has its very own tech incubator, called EvoNexus, a product of the non-profit industry association, CommNexus which provides startups with access to capital, talent and business development. One o... |
| 12.12.2011 | From The Infinity Ventures Summit In Kyoto/Japan: 13 Demos From Japanese Startups | I took part in the Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2011 (IVS) in Kyoto/Japan last week, a two-day web industry event organized twice a year by Japanese VC firm Infinity Venture Partners. Like at every IVS, a few hours of the schedule were res... |
| 01.12.2011 | Overview: 11 Startup Demos From The TechCrunch Tokyo 2011 Conference | TechCrunch Japan organized TechCrunch Tokyo 2011 [JP] on Tuesday, a one-day event that attracted a total of 600 people (and will hopefully be organized next year again, possibly as TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo). The crowd was a mix of people fr... |
| 01.12.2011 | How infographics jumped the shark | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographi... |
| 01.12.2011 | How infographics jumped the shark | We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographics.
Visual presentations of data are everywhere, popping up on every type of online publication (even VentureBeat). There are so many infographics on the Internet that some bloggers are lashi... |
| 30.11.2011 | Brother, Can You Spare Some Time? Zaarly, TaskRabbit and the Rise of the Convenience Economy | Chad Miller likes to think of running errands for strangers on TaskRabbit as a quasi-religious experience—or at least as close to spiritual as a gay former Southern Baptist from West Texas is likely to find in New York. Mr. Miller is a 38-y... |
| 25.10.2011 |
Zaarly Gets $14M
| Zaarly, the mobile marketplace firm which was spawned out of the LA Startup Weekend event, said today that it has raised $14.1M in a funding round, and added former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to its board. The new funding comes from Kleiner Perki... |
| 25.10.2011 | Zaarly Raises $14.1M in Series A Funding | Zaarly, a San Francisco, CA-based mobile commerce start-up, has raised $14.1m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers‘ iFund and Sands Capital Ventures, with participation from CMEA, Venture51, Crunchf... |
| 25.10.2011 | Zaarly Closes $14.1M Series A |
Meg Whitman joins the Zaarly Board upon closing of funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers' iFund and Sands Capital Ventures, with significant support from CMEA, Venture51, Crunchfund, Marc Ecko, and Artists and Instigato... |
| 25.10.2011 | Zaarly Rings Up $14M to Fuel Growth, adds Firepower to Board with HP’s Meg Whitman | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Peer-to-peer e-commerce startup Zaarly, born out of a Startup Weekend event just this spring, has tallied a new $14.1 million venture round and is adding freshly installed Hew... |
| 24.10.2011 | Meg Whitman joins Zaarly’s board, company gets $14M from Kleiner Perkins | Mobile marketplace Zaarly announced today that Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman is joining its board of directors, and that it’s getting a $14 million investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
“I just love her,” said ... |
| 24.10.2011 | Startup Weekend grad Zaarly lands $14 million, names Meg Whitman to the board | Zaarly was started earlier this year at a Startup Weekend event in California. Today, the fast-growing upstart is announcing that it is entering the big leagues, naming former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to the board and pulling in $14.1 million i... |
| 24.10.2011 | Meg Whitman joins Zaarly’s board, company gets $14M from Kleiner Perkins | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile marketplace Zaarly announced today that Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman is joining its board of directors, and that ... |
| 18.10.2011 | Zaarly employee tries to poach Craigslist advertiser | Is it fair to comb through Craigslist ads looking for people to win over to your own online marketplace?
That’s what Zaarly, an online marketplace for people to post items they need, appears to be doing.
In an email thread obtained by Ventu... |
| 18.10.2011 | Zaarly employee tries to poach Craigslist advertiser | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Is it fair to comb through Craigslist ads looking... |
| 11.10.2011 | Seattle: Coffee Town with a Software Problem | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Are you a highly educated, salmon-eating, coffee-swilling tech worker who likes soccer? Congratulations! You fit pretty easily into the profile of a Seattle consumer, as detai... |
| 04.10.2011 | Four Things Lawyers and Hackers Have in Common | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Are hackers and lawyers really that different?
If you hear someone talking about the two in the same sentence, you’d be well within your rights to assume it was an expansion o... |
| 27.09.2011 | Oh, Hey Google: Chomp Launches Its Own AdWords For App Search; Brings Realtime Search To iPhone | Two weeks ago, we covered Chomp‘s news that it will be powering app search on Verizon’s app store for all Android phones. Today, the app search early player is announcing some more big news, and this time advertisers and developers are the ... |
| 26.08.2011 | URGENT: The Top 10 Hurricane Apps You Must Download Now – NYC Edition | iOS for iRene
As Missy Elliot would say, time to get your freak (out) on. Betabeat’s cabbie earlier today explained that he was from the Dominican Republic and would be battenting down the hatches at his house in Queens with techniques pass... |
| 15.08.2011 | Michael Arrington’s New Executive Assistant Did It All For The Labradors | Michael Arrington decided to test the limits of what his new Executive Assistant, Greg Barto, can actually do by asking the TechCrunch readers to suggest tasks he should complete for one day. Using Zaarly, Greg was sent on a day long advent... |
| 11.08.2011 | Startup Labs to bankroll best and brightest from Startup Weekend | It can be downright inspiring watching ideas percolate at Startup Weekend — the 54-hour coding marathon where developers, artists, attorneys, VCs and startup geeks from around the world try to build new companies at hyperspeed. But, oftenti... |
| 02.08.2011 | Dare Mike’s Assistant To Do Anything You Like — For The Labradors! | Today’s the day Mike Arrington’s new assistant Greg will be wandering the streets of Silicon Valley, doing everything — and anything — that you ask him to do.
We’ve already received a bunch of hilarious tasks (dares?) — but we want even mor... |
| 01.08.2011 | Make The TechCrunch Executive Assistant Do Anything You Want On Zaarly Tomorrow | Many of you may know this, or may not, but Michael Arrington has an amazing new assistant, Greg Barto. Greg came to us from Hollywood and we have been kindly teaching him the ropes of TechCrunch and what to expect. However, we are not sure ... |
| 26.07.2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: Skills And a Gawker-TechCrunch Blog Fight | PIVOTS AND PYRES. Pivots are in vogue, and recently-pivoted SkillSlate is taking full advantage of the hype with a self-branded Pivot Party. The start-up began as a directory-like site for local businesses and entrepreneurs to build a perso... |
| 25.07.2011 | Zaarly Security Glitch Exposes Private Messages, Phone Numbers | Another day, another startup security glitch.
This time the startup affected is Zaarly, the service that lets you buy or sell anything with people nearby.
A bug in a recent code push created a security hole that revealed phone numbers and p... |
| 12.07.2011 | Zaarly Launches On Android | Android users, say hello to Zaarly. For those not yet familiar with the peer-to-peer mobile startup, they’ve had a whirlwind year thus far. Built at hackathons and startup weekends over the first few months of this year, Zaarly took first p... |
| 11.07.2011 | Zipments: The Zaarly Of Courier Services Arrives In NYC And Chicago | Back in March we wrote about Zaarly, a startup that lets you post an odd job and find someone to complete it for a modest fee. It, and similar services like TaskRabbit, have honed in on a key idea: there are a lot of intelligent, hardworkin... |
| 08.07.2011 | Our Executive Assistant Greg Gets A Surprise In-Office Haircut | Who says working for TechCrunch isn’t just about the best job ever, ever? Case in point: Bummed after losing to Causes’ Josh Persky in Zaarly’s “Startup Haircut Contest” this week, our newly minted executive assistant Greg Barto was just go... |
| 14.06.2011 | Zaarly Crosses $1M In Jobs Posted, In Just Under A Month | In less than a month after its nationwide launch on May 14th, peer to peer marketplace Zaarly has crossed $1 million in posted transactions, and commemorated them with a colorful infographic depicting the break down of the early days of Zaa... |
| 10.06.2011 | Making Cash an Option for Digital & Mobile Payments, Dwolla Launches “Grid” | Online and mobile cash-based payment service Dwolla has launched its first API (application programming interface), which the company calls “Grid.” This tool allows for the integration of Dwolla’s cash-based payments service within other pl... |
| 05.06.2011 | The Power Of Online-To-Offline Is Moving Beyond Local Commerce | While the idea of ‘online to offline’ for purchasing is proving to be powerful in the local commerce world, the trend of linking the physical world to the web is producing a number of startups that are innovating beyond just purchasing from... |
| 18.05.2011 | Zaarly Launches Realtime, Local Marketplace To The Public | Backed by an impressive list of investors, Zaarly, a web and mobile service that connects buyers and sellers in a localized market place, is launching to the public today.
As we’ve written in the past, Zaarly is a mobile-centric reverse Cra... |
| 18.05.2011 | Start-Up News: Disrupt, the Rapture and a Few Good Launches | This week in New York tech news and associated items:
DISRUPT APPROACHETH. The TechCrunch mega-conference starts with a hackathon at Pier 94 on May 21, which anyone who has walked through Times Square in the last three days knows is the Rap... |
| 18.05.2011 | Zaarly looks to take on Craigslist, with help from LeVar Burton and Ashton Kutcher | Kutcher (Wikipedia photo)
Need a plumber, a DJ or a chainsaw carving of a bear? Welcome to Zaarly. Born at Startup Weekend in L.A., Zaarly today is launching what it dubs a “location-based, real-time commerce platform.” Essentially, it is a... |
| 18.05.2011 | Second Life Co-founder’s New Project CoffeeandPower: Exchange Virtual Currency for Real-World Tasks | CoffeeandPower, the latest project from Second Life co-founder Philip Rosedale has launched in test-mode in the San Francisco area. The service describes itself as a “sort of live version of Craigslist.”
There have been a number of startups... |
| 18.05.2011 | Zaarly Launches Real-Time Social Marketplace | After being backed by an impressive set of investors, including Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, among others, Zaarly officially launched today.
Their real-time social marketplace allows you to buy and sell with the people around you. Additio... |
| 18.05.2011 | Hot Mobile Local Commerce App Zaarly Goes Live | Zaarly has a different way of conducting commerce online. The startup offers a real-time Web and mobile location-based platform that can help people get what they want or need from the community around them. Zaarly launches to the public to... |
| 14.05.2011 | Koester to Congress: It’s time to remove regulatory friction | Zaarly co-founder Eric Koester, the Seattle startup attorney-turned-entrepreneur, testified in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday. Despite Chairman Darrell Issa botching Zaarly’s name, Koester laid ou... |
| 13.05.2011 | Zaarly on Capitol Hill: Why the Startup Ecosystem Matters | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, I had the opportunity to participate in a hearing convened by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This wa... |
| 09.05.2011 | Eric Koester to testify in D.C. on how to simplify startup financing | Eric Koester
Eric Koester thinks the startup company formation process needs to be streamlined, eliminating “friction points” tied to government regulation. And now the Seattle attorney-turned-entrepreneur is heading to Washington D.C. to s... |
| 04.05.2011 | Real-Time Mobile Marketplace, Zaarly, Coming To New York Within Weeks | It’s probably easiest to explain how Zaarly works by quoting one of its earliest fans, Demi Moore: “Everything has a price.”
The service hopes to revolutionize commerce by building a mobile marketplace for real-time, local transactions. Say... |
| 01.05.2011 | The P2P Evolution | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
Many years ago, after graduating college, ... |
| 01.04.2011 | How Zaarly Lets You Name Your Price On Everything; An Interview With Co-Founder Bo Fishback | We heard a lot of buzz about Zaarly at SXSW. Through our partnership with Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness movement, we interviewed a lot of thought leaders, creatives and innovators. One of the questions we asked was what app or service h... |
| 22.03.2011 | Poll Results: Hurricane Party Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011 | After a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services ... |
| 17.03.2011 | Poll: What’s The Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011? | In the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people's real-time check-in att... |
