Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to create content at scale; Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and 1,000 customers
After winning LA Startup Weekend, Zaarly almost immediately <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/zaarly-crosses-1m-in-jobs-posted-in-just-under-a-month/">raised $1 million from</a> a long list o
In the fall of 2011, we caught up with social commerce startup, Yardsellr, which the founders claimed at the time had grown into a community of over 5 million people. The Facebook-based social commerc
Last year, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.zaarly.com/">Zaarly</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/zaarly-launches-realtime-local-marketplace-to-the-public/">launched its real-time mob
For many, the appeal of realtime, local commerce platforms like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zaarly.com/">Zaarly</a> is evident almost immediately. For those unfamiliar, the mobile-centric reve
The right investor, the kind who can help startups get over the inevitable "We're Fucked It's Over" (WFIO) moments, can turn a startup into a multi-billion dollar company.
The fact is that choosin
Despite a couple big-name companies like Groupon and Zynga lining up for IPOs, the demand for private company stock on alternative exchanges keeps rising. Private stock transactions on <a href="https
Michael Arrington decided to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/ea-appreciation-day-techcrunch-style/">test the limits </a>of what his new Executive Assistant, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/B
Many of you may know this, or may not, but Michael Arrington has an amazing new assistant, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Bartozone">Greg Barto</a>. Greg came to us from Hollywood and we have been kin
Another day, another startup security glitch.
This time the startup affected is <a href="http://www.zaarly.com">Zaarly</a>, the service that lets you buy or sell anything with people nearby.
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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 fir
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<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/screen-shot-2011-06-14-at-5-51-19-pm2.png" />In less than a month after its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/zaarly-launches-realt
<img class="shot2" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/airbnb.png" alt="" />While the idea of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/15/connecting-the-dots-on-ebays-local-shopping-
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/z.jpg" class="shot2"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/want-someone-to-bring-you-a-beer-get-that-and-anything-else-from-zaarly/">Back
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Many years ago, after graduating college, I came home before moving to NYC, wondering how I would scrounge toge
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/screen-shot-2011-03-13-at-12-39-44-pm.png" />If you're like most people at SXSW the time change today and the drinking last night has hit you
<img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/zaarly.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /><a href="http://www.zaarly.com">Zaarly</a> was little more than an idea when it won a LA Star