A Chicago-area startup that sells natural consumer goods online, Abe’s Market, closed a $3.4 million series A investment the company announced today. Accel Partners led the round, joined by the company’s earlier investors, Index Ventures and several angels.
Abe’s Market calls itself the equivalent of an online farmer’s market, and focuses on selling non-food category natural products like beauty, bath, baby or cleaning items, though it also sells some packaged comestibles. more…



In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom line can lead nowhere good.
Swimming in our ocean of online adverts is not the only exercise Dealfish is doing these days. Have you spotted the new cycle taxis in town? Well, be on the lookout, because Dealfish is about to take you for a ride with a difference.
A few decades ago, the best way to sell your car was to put a huge sign in the window and park it outside your house or even run an advertisement in your local newspaper. Sure, it got your car sold but the audience was limited and sometimes it could even take a lot of time to find an interested buyer.
Many companies have made money by promoting their products online via large online auction pages, or classified ad web sites. Ebay has millions of registered users as does Amazon.com, and Craigslist, just to name a few.