February 14th, 2013

Squarespace Adds Commerce System For A High-Class Blogging/Sales Experience

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Squarespace knows from fancy. They make dead-simple websites for people who require a high level of design and elegance and, unlike, say, our website, a lot of Squarespace sites are surprisingly beautiful. Now those same designers who use the site for their private blogs can sell their wares right from their sites. → Read More

November 1st, 2012

Squarespace, Fog Creek, Peer1 Kept NY Data Center Alive By Carrying Fuel Buckets To The 17th Floor In The Dark

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Small businesses may have been even more affected than big companies by Hurricane Sandy, as they don’t have the same resources. When Squarespace sent an email on Monday morning, it looked like they had tried everything to keep the servers alive. They asked for forgiveness in advance. But the unbelievable happened: They kept the service going by bringing fuel buckets to the 17th floor in the dark… → Read More

October 25th, 2012

Record Your Brilliant Ideas In Style For Either Public Or Private Consumption With Squarespace Note

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Squarespace introduced a new mobile app for iPhone today, but it has little to do with the company’s website creation platform. Instead, it’s a simplified note-taking application that can publish to your Squarespace account, but doesn’t have to, since it also offers cross-syncing to Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote and Facebook. → Read More

July 17th, 2012

Squarespace Theme Editor And Blog Engine Goes HTML5, Aims At Code-Capable Designers

Squarespace makes it easy for design- (but not tech-) savvy users to build beautiful websites. The service has been around since 2003 but recently received a full overhaul called Squarespace 6. The resulting experience – a WYSIWYG system so complete that it may give pause to some code lovers out there – is quite amazing. → Read More

October 21st, 2011

Squarespace 6: Rebuilt From The Ground Up To Take On WordPress, Tumblr And Everyone Else

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So you want to build a webpage. Maybe it’s a blog. Maybe it’s a site for your small business. Maybe it’s a portfolio for your artwork.

In any case, you have options. A lot of them, including WordPress, Movable Type, Tumblr, Virb, Weebly, and a variety of niche sites that cater to specific use-cases and communities.

And Squarespace, the premium hosted blogging platform that raised a whopping… → Read More

July 13th, 2010

Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index Ventures

When founder Anthony Casalena first started Squarespace in 2003, he had one investment: $20,000 from his dad. At the time, it was just enough money to get a few servers for his web publishing startup.

Fast forward to 2010, Squarespace has just raised $38.5 million— representing its first round of outside capital. The round, which was announced late Tuesday, is led by Index Ventures and Accel… → Read More