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Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to create content at scale; Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and 1,000 customers

After winning LA Startup Weekend, Zaarly almost immediately <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/zaarly-crosses-1m-in-jobs-posted-in-just-under-a-month/">raised $1 million from</a> a long list o

In the fall of 2011, we caught up with social commerce startup, Yardsellr, which the founders claimed at the time had grown into a community of over 5 million people. The Facebook-based social commerc

Last year, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.zaarly.com/">Zaarly</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/zaarly-launches-realtime-local-marketplace-to-the-public/">launched its real-time mob

For many, the appeal of realtime, local commerce platforms like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zaarly.com/">Zaarly</a> is evident almost immediately. For those unfamiliar, the mobile-centric reve

The right investor, the kind who can help startups get over the inevitable "We're Fucked It's Over" (WFIO) moments, can turn a startup into a multi-billion dollar company. The fact is that choosin

Despite a couple big-name companies like Groupon and Zynga lining up for IPOs, the demand for private company stock on alternative exchanges keeps rising. Private stock transactions on <a href="https

Michael Arrington decided to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/ea-appreciation-day-techcrunch-style/">test the limits </a>of what his new Executive Assistant, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/B

Many of you may know this, or may not, but Michael Arrington has an amazing new assistant, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Bartozone">Greg Barto</a>. Greg came to us from Hollywood and we have been kin

Another day, another startup security glitch. This time the startup affected is <a href="http://www.zaarly.com">Zaarly</a>, the service that lets you buy or sell anything with people nearby. A b

<img class="shot2" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/airbnb.png" alt="" />While the idea of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/15/connecting-the-dots-on-ebays-local-shopping-

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/z.jpg" class="shot2"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/want-someone-to-bring-you-a-beer-get-that-and-anything-else-from-zaarly/">Back

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/space-robot-handshake.jpg"> Many years ago, after graduating college, I came home before moving to NYC, wondering how I would scrounge toge