According to Bradley Austin, VP of Sales APAC, Marketplacer, selling digital advertising space is no longer the only way for community owners to monetise their audiences.
Victoria’s online marketplace startups have created jobs for 93,000 people and contribute $1.6 billion to the state economy, according to new report from EY-Parthenon and startup ecosystem development agency LaunchVic. The report, A Review of Melbourne’s Digital Marketplaces, shows the sector is growing at 11% per year, well above Victoria’s current industry growth rate of […]
Fresh from entering the fintech game, with the launch of SME e-tailer loans in partnership with Prospa, ecommerce company MyDeal has continued to diversify its offering, with the soft launch of an online fashion marketplace. Built with the technology underpinning MyDeal Marketplace, MyWardrobe went live this week with over 5000 men and women’s products, including […]
Melbourne start-up MyDeal.com.au has closed a $5 million funding round with strategic investment firm Gandel Invest. Launched in 2012, the fast-growing online marketplace has, until now, been entirely bootstrapped by founder, CEO and serial entrepreneur Sean Senvirtne. He spoke to Dynamic Business about why the time was right to inject capital into MyDeal, which has grown […]
Since launching in 2012, online marketplace MyDeal.com.au has enjoyed 150% growth year on year. 2015 was particularly fruitful for the ecommerce start-up – it grew 338% and was named Australia’s 9th fastest growing technology company by Deloitte. The company estimates it will have generated more than $30 million in sales by the end of the calendar year. What’s […]
For a woman who has built an empire out of hard-to-find goods, her success is easy to see. Erica Stewart is easy going and matter-of-fact about her business journey thus-far. Until 2008, Erica was a national sales manager for a top Australian magazine. She enjoyed her work, but it was the products that came in […]
Imagine you work as a developer for Etsy. In case you haven’t heard of Etsy, it is a marketplace where people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell and buy unique goods. It has 1.5 million sellers, almost 22 million active buyers, and in 2014 it had gross merchandise sales of […]
Price comparison, a booking engine and an online marketplace – these three phrases are not usually associated with the quest for medical treatment. Not until entrepreneur, Pawel Cebula, asked himself one question and decided to act on the response: why can’t tools that work for other industries, also work for the growing number of medical […]
Online marketplace for handmade goods, Etsy, announced changes to its seller guidelines today.
Online creative marketplace Etsy has been the home of many Australian micro-businesses just getting started in the retail market. Here Etsy’s country director for Australia, UK, Canada and New Zealand, Nicole Vanderbilt, sharing advice for micros.
