Rob Kalin, the CEO of Etsy, wrote a long post detailing the latest financing with Accel and the plans for the future of the site. It’s a great read for anyone interested in Etsy.
Some numbers on Etsy pulled from Rob’s post:
Now, thirty-three months [after Etsy's initial launch], Etsy is a company with fifty employees, [...]

… that’s “hello” in Korean. I’m practicing because if Time Warner’s new test trials in metered bandwidth for consumer actually gains traction, then I’m moving to Seoul. A garbage collector in a small village in South Korea has better and cheaper internet access than most Google employees.
Metered bandwidth… pfft… I haven’t [...]

Charlie hit the nail on the head. EOM.

I just added a new application I’m testing to my Facebook profile. That’s a very common occurance these days, so my Facebook profile is a bit of a mess. After added the latest application, when I went to check out my profile, I found a big message from Facebook.
The gist of [...]

Apple announced that iPod Touch users will have to pay $20 for a software update to their devices in order to get Maps, Stocks, Weather, Notes, and Mail applications. That pricing choice set my mind spinning about the various choices companies have when pricing software: price based on competition, price based on cost of [...]

Union Square Ventures just announced an investment in the Zynga game network.
I appreciate Zynga for a number of reasons, but the most important reason is the simplicity of the investment thesis. Consumers love browser-based casual games. About this time last year, when you look at the top 20 websites on a “Time [...]