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A peek inside Sequoia Capital’s low-flying, wide-reaching scout program
It was a brilliant idea. It allowed Sequoia to keep tabs on entrepreneurs — and nascent technologies — not yet in its universe. It cemented the firm’s ties to the…
Weebly brings more e-commerce features to mobile
Weebly is part of Square now, but it continues to update as a standalone product. This week, for example, the company announced a number of new e-commerce features for the…
Square just announced that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Weebly for $365 million in cash and stock. While Square is best known for its payment software and hardware, it’s…
The web design platform Weebly was hacked in February, according to the data breach notification site LeakedSource. Usernames and passwords for more than 43 million accounts were taken in the breach,…
Weebly updates its website builder with a focus on e-commerce and marketing
Weebly launched a new version of its platform today. While the company started out as an easy-to-use website creator and editor (I used it to build my own website), CEO…
Small businesses have their pick of affordable DIY website-building platforms. But these “no coding skills required” platforms struggle to acquire and retain customers. While the UI is often beautifully designed,…
Weebly expands beyond easy-to-build websites, adds easy-to-build marketing emails
Weebly isn’t just for building websites anymore — it recently launched Promote, a platform for building marketing emails. CEO David Rusenko said this is actually Weebly’s second big expansion, after…
Twenty-Year-Old Shahed Khan Has More Connections Than You Do
Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, while many of his peers are either attending college or living with their parents, he’s working as an entrepreneur-in-residence…
Website Builder Weebly Gets A Revamp And Its First App Center
Weebly is launching the third generation of its product today, which it calls Carbon — CEO David Rusenko described it as the “first big step” in a new direction. Until…
Weebly Debuts An iPad App For Building And Managing Websites
Weebly has quietly grown to power a large number of publisher and e-commerce sites over the years, and now it’s rolling out a whole new way for users to build…
Weebly, which offers easy-to-use tools for building websites, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding. The money comes from previous investor Sequoia Capital and from…
With 30K Active Online Stores, Weebly Launches DIY eCommerce Platform To Take On Amazon And Shopify
Launching today, Weebly’s new eCommerce platform aims to bring simple online store creation to the masses, Rusenko says, and will provide businesses access to a mobile store and checkout, filtered…
As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees
Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today…
SnapPages Takes Aim At The Wixes And Weeblys Of The World With Major New Redesign
Today, the website creation market is dominated by a handful of veteran players, as companies like Wix, Weebly and SquareSpace now own the majority of mindshare and boast tens of…
With Over 15M Sites Built, Weebly Launches New Planner And Mobile Editor, Brings Website Creation Service To Android
In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It’s just the way it is. Some might opt just to go…
How Stripe, Weebly And Cue Make Programming Challenges That Are Good For Recruiting
Editor’s note: Robby Walker is co-founder and CTO of Cue. His previous company, Zenter, sold to Google in 2007. Programming challenges are a fantastic way to connect great people with great…
M.Dot Builds Better Mobile Site Creator, Gets Archimedes Labs’ Largest Investment Yet
Archimedes Labs, a Palo Alto incubator, has made its largest startup investment to date, backing mobile web development startup M.dot. Neither side would disclose financial details. M.dot is still in…
Weebly Aims Big For Web Site Creator Market, Adds 25 More Themes And A Polished New Interface
It’s 2012, you’re a small business, and you know you need a web presence — but where do you turn? Maybe a Facebook Page or Twitter account if you want…
Weebly Adds Slick iOS App To Its Quietly Huge Web Site Creation Business
I keep hearing rumors about the ridiculous amounts of money that Weebly is making. But the San Francisco company, which provides a set of tools for small businesses and other…
Weebly Launches Whitelabeled Platform That Caters To Designers
Since its inception, Weebly has been focused on making it as easy as possible to build your own custom website using a WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop interface. And it’s done a good…
Hadoop & Startups: Where Open Source Meets Business Data
This guest post was written by Kovas Boguta, Head of Analytics at Weebly. In 2009, Kovas wrote a guest post about visualizing real-time social structures. A decade ago, the open-source LAMP…
Weebly Launches Support For Multiple Editor Accounts
Weebly, the web-based website creator that sports an easy, drag-and-drop interface, is launching a big new feature this morning: support for multiple editors under the same account. In short, you’ll…
Seeing Interactive And Weebly Partner, Offer White-Label Websites To Bolster Small Biz SEO
YCombinator-backed Seeing Interactive, which helps newspapers build and sell space in online ad directories and YC-backed Weebly, the service that lets you build your own drag and drop websites, have…
Weebly's ImagePerfect Gives Users Drag-And-Drop Image Editing
Weebly, the startup that lets you build a website with an easy drag-and-drop interface, is looking to help you give your site a little extra flair: they’ve just launched a…
YComb's Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures
When it comes to local advertising, everybody wants to replace the Yellow Pages, which makes money hand-over-fist from local merchants across the country. Seeing Interactive, A Y Combinator startup which…
Calling All Designers: Weebly Gives Users More Variety With New Theme Community
Weebly, the startup that allows users to build rich websites using a straightforward drag and drop interface, is about to get a lot more colorful. The site has opened a…
Weebly Deal Gives Hosting Provider Endurance International A Web Editor That Doesn't Stink
Since mid 2007, Weebly has offered an intuitive and powerful drag-and-drop website building tool that makes it easy to build rich sites websites with no technical know-how required. Up until…
Weebly Launches New Managed Site Builder For Educators And Students
School’s back in session, and Weebly, a startup that makes it super easy to build websites using a drag-and-drop interface, is looking to capitalize on it. Today Weebly is launching…
Ditch The Generic: Weebly Launches Free WYSIWYG Virtual Storefronts
Weebly, a popular WYSIWYG webpage maker, is launching a new feature today that will allow users to quickly make fully customized web stores using the Weebly interface they’re already familiar…
Weebly Adds AdSense Support For Drag And Drop Cash
Weebly, the WYSIWYG website designer, has introduced integration with Google’s AdSense API that will allow its users to easily monetize their pages. The site is also introducing new ‘Pro’ accounts,…