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Etsy CEO Rob Kalin presented last night at the NY Tech meeting. He began by flying a paper airplane in the air. Somehow I thought that was going to tie into his presentation, but it did not. In fact the airplane flew as far as the presentation went. Most of his presentation was actually speaking about the high oil prices and how these prices will seal off our borders and allow U.S. citizens to create products for other U.S. citizens and that Etsy will make the transactions possible. He also talked about family names for some reason.
He showed off a few of their tools - like the ability to select a color and see all of the products that they have available from their many thousand sellers using the Etsy platform. Kalin also noted that he doesn’t want Etsy to become as big as eBay.
He ended by talking about putting Walmart out of business or something - frankly the demo wasn’t impressive.
Etsy Demo from allen stern on Vimeo.
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Mimeo presented their off-site Web printing service at the NY Tech meeting last night. This might be one of the most interesting business models I’ve seen as of late. You upload your documents to their service (you can even use your normal printer function) and they print them as you request and overnight them to the location(s) you select. Their printing facility is located in Memphis which is where the Fedex shipping HQ is.
One staggering statistic they shared is that they print between 2 and 3 million pages every evening. One thing that no one has noted so far, Memphis is also the headquarters of International Paper and just an hour away is Georgia-Pacific. My guess is that they get most of their papers from these companies and the location is strategic for more than just the shipping partner.
Mimeo Demo from allen stern on Vimeo.
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