Handmade marketplace Etsy has grown to 800,000 sellers and 40+ million monthly visitors. All that activity generates enormous quantities of data, which Etsy uses to drive site improvements. Credit: ...

Etsy's revenue increased 3.8%, as a 4.8% decrease in gross merchandise sales was more than offset by an expansion in the firm's take rate, which clocked in at 24% (up 200 basis points from a year ago) ...

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Etsy has carved out an interesting competitive niche, jockeying for e-commerce wallet share across a variety of categories in the long tail of unbranded products. Its eponymous core marketplace is ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Commerce services provider Shopify filed for IPO last week to raise $100M in a valuation of $1B. Shopify offers a combination of commerce and SaaS solutions, and investors should consider comparable ...