Etsy usually has a great holiday season — but Amazon could ruin things this year (AMZN, ETSY)

The holidays have traditionally been a special time for Etsy. As is the case with many retailers, Etsy’s sales tend to spike during the holiday shopping season. But for the purveyor of handmade goods, the jump in sales has usually been especially dramatic, as we can see in this chart from Statista. To spur another […]

Amazon wants to destroy Etsy this holiday season (AMZN, ETSY)

Drew Angerer / Getty Images The e-commerce giant is stepping up its game in handmade products this holiday season, announcing Tuesday that its Prime Now delivery is teaming up with Amazon Handmade Etsy, which is already struggling, could lose customers to Amazon’s superior delivery options. Following Etsy‘s surprising accelerating growth in its second and third quarters, […]

A computer predicted the success of Etsy, Spotify, and other major startups 8 years ago — and it’s just generated a new list

In 2009, Ira Sager of Businessweek magazine set a challenge for Quid AI’s CEO Bob Goodson: programme a computer to pick 50 unheard of companies that are set to rock the world. The domain of picking “start-up winners” was — and largely still is — dominated by a belief held by the venture capital (VC) […]

10 things you need to know before the opening bell (SPY, SPX, QQQ, DIA, TWLO, AAPL, WTW, ETSY, JPM)

Reuters/Charles Platiau Here is what you need to know. Here comes the Fed. The Federal Reserve will release its latest policy decision at 2 p.m. ET. While expectations are low for the Fed to raise rates at Tuesday’s meeting, World Interest Rate Probability data provided by Bloomberg shows a 69.6% chance the central bank moves […]

Parents at Etsy are raving about the company’s progressive parental leave policy

Etsy/YouTube In April of last year, Etsy did something few American employers have done before: It offered 26 weeks of fully-paid time off to new parents, regardless of gender, that could be taken over the two years following the birth or adoption of a child. According to parental leave data from online job review site Fairygodboss, […]

Parents at Etsy are raving about the company’s progressive parental leave policy

Etsy/YouTube In April of last year, Etsy did something few American employers have done before: It offered 26 weeks of fully-paid time off to new parents, regardless of gender, that could be taken over the two years following the birth or adoption of a child. According to parental leave data from online job review site Fairygodboss, […]