Etsy should be your first port of call if you have something authentic to sell online. The marketplace for vintage and handmade goods lists millions of items. In the jewelry shop alone, buyers can browse almost 2.7 million items at any given time. Buyers on Etsy are spoiled for choice. But if you’re a...
Venture capitalists invested $5.8 billion in 758 deals in the first quarter of 2012, according to a MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The report shows that after a strong fourth quarter 2011, VC investment activity for the quarter fell 19 percent in terms of dollars and 15...
Editor’s Note: Christine Tsai is a Partner at 500 Startups. Learn more about her at http://500.co and follow her on Twitter at @christine_tsai. Are you an entrepreneur looking to build something truly awesome that will positively impact millions of people’s lives? (And by the way, make a LOT of money?) If so, then I...
After the Associated Press published an article on March 20th about employers asking job candidates for Facebook and social media passwords, the response was, to say the least, overwhelming. In the month since, there have been thousands of tweets and social media status updates, more than 2,000 blog posts, and hundreds of news articles...
Peter Thiel is the guest at April’s PandoMonthly event, and the serial investor (who famously owns part of Facebook) and well known Silicon Valley figure provided a series of unique and insightful comments on the business behind startups. Talking about increased competition and lack of differentiation in the startup space, the PayPal founder said that...
Apple See Also All The Rumors About The iPad Mini RUMOR: Apple Will Release A $300 iPad Mini This Fall You Have To Check Out This Gorgeous iPad Mini Concept Design Apple generates more gossip than the Kardashians. There’s a constantly spinning mill of rumors about Apple products, most of which turn out to...
We first heard about Rewinery through a stray tweet from Instagram co-founder (and fellow Brazilian) Mike Krieger. Because it was late at the office, and we were working on culling TechCrunch Disrupt finalists, we thought that having three bottles of wine delivered to TechCrunch headquarters sounded like just about the best thing in the world...
Apple’s new iPad has gone on sale in 12 new countries today, seeing brisk interest in the tablet device in Korea and Malaysia, which were the first to get it today. As Apple announced last week, its third-generation device will also go on sale in an additional ten countries across the world today: Asian...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels had some words of wisdom Thursday for IT customers: “You should keep your providers on their toes every day. If we’re not delivering the right services you should walk away.” No one watching AWS Summit would disagree with that sentiment. But many questioned exactly how easy it will be for...
AP See Also Larry Page: I’m ‘Not Sure’ Android Is A Critical Asset To Google Here’s How Google Is Trying To Defend Itself Against Oracle Here’s The Damning Evidence Oracle Dug Up On Google For Its $1 Billion Android Lawsuit After the excitement of Larry Page and Larry Ellison testifying earlier this week, the...