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Crafts marketplace operator Etsy plans to launch a new foundation that provides business education with a systems and regenerative view. 
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The dispute over how goods are produced and sold on a site that prides itself on feel-good, handmade authenticity underscores the growing pains transforming Etsy as it moves toward a potentially lucrative initial public offering of stock.
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The online marketplace and those who buy and sell on it say that imitation handmade goods, and rules restricting how hit vendors can grow to meet demand, are complicating the site’s drive for authenticity.
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The company, founded in Brooklyn a decade ago, may begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market within two months.
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Etsy is now a ticker symbol on the NASDAQ stock exchange. And that's telling.
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Buy and sell handmade or vintage items, art and supplies on Etsy, the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace. Share stories through millions of items from around the world.
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It’s possible to write a history of the platform and ecosystem model of business and never mention Apple AAPL -0.42% or Google, yet it was Apple and Google that created amazement with the scale of their ecosystems, altering not just their own business models but that of hundreds of other companies. It was the smartphone industry that made the business ecosystem a must-have, a matter of significant, embedded competitive advantage. Of course we now know thatGoogle erred in scaling its ecosystem via Java APIs but the bug is spreading and fast. Ecosystems are about to convert new sectors to the smartphone model.
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Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94 percent from the initial set price of $16 per share.
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The crafts e-commerce platform seeks a $100 million stock offering as early as April.
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It's official: Etsy is going public.
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Like book authors who hate Amazon’s policies, crafters who hate Etsy find it hard to leave because of the site’s immense traffic and generally positive public reputation.
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Sites like AirBNB and Sidecar let people obtain services in a peer-to-peer way that was impossible before the Internet, but are those services disrupting or supplementing the industries they're in?...
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