Twenty20 is a Crowdsourced Photography Marketplace
Stock photos are an easy and free means of finding an appropriate photo online to attach to a blog, Facebook post, or webpage, among a wide range of uses. Unfortunately, these stock photos are easy to identify as such, very obviously staged, and may only vaguely convey what you are communicating. Twenty20 is a startup that looks to change this through crowdsourcing. It offers what its creators call “the world’s largest crowdsourced image catalog.” Along with solving the stock image issue for users, it provides an opportunity for anyone to upload photos and potentially make money on them. It provides the added benefit that the photos people can find on the Twenty20 website are much more creative and interesting than the ones typically found on similar websites or through a random image search. People who are seeking photos that they can legally add to their blogs can get a subscription at Twenty20 to purchase some at a lower cost than hiring a photographer, while photographers can display their smartphone photos to big brands and marketing agencies. Read more »
The online marketplace has been growing as the ideal means for individuals as well as companies to buy and sell for years. More recently, it has also become a great way to rent, particularly through services such as Trulia and Zillow, and Airbnb. While these companies prove how fruitful online rental can be, they service the particular need for home and apartment rentals, but car rental has been a trickier thing to manage. Now, however, a startup called Getaround has emerged to help make online vehicle rental easy, practical, and convenient. While people have been able to use apps like Uber and Lyft for some time now in order to make money from their cars or, conversely, easily and quickly get a ride when they need one, only the typical rental agency options have been available for vehicles until now. 
The online marketplace is extremely diverse and serves as everything from an online presence for brick and mortar retailers to food delivery service to the purchase of computer repair services such as RESCUECOM offers and almost any other type of transaction imaginable. One service that has been popular since nearly the very beginning of the Internet’s popularity for personal use has been online resale. Beyond buying from major retailers or online outlets, people have been buying and selling used goods of their own on such popular sites as Craigslist. These sites allow anyone to purchase or sell anything within reason, and now a startup called Tradesy wants to bring this model to high-end goods and fashion accessories. Until recently, there has been little focus on the resale of such goods specifically. Tradesy gives users a place to find things very few people on sites like Craigslist would ever offer, complete with safeguards to ensure the quality of said goods that others do not offer. 
The market for tea is not one that tech-savvy companies have ignored, though it does not seem to garner the same attention that many other luxury goods do. There are specific online marketplaces for tea as well as companies selling tea online, but these are usually stores that purchase the teas to sell to consumers at retail. In contrast, Tealet is a startup that offers retail but specializes in wholesale tea purchase through an online platform where users can trace their teas from the field where they grow until it arrives in their cups. It works internationally among growers dedicated to growing the highest quality teas with the utmost care. Tealet also offers a “global tea taster” program that offers a selection of high-quality loose leaf tea delivered straight to a user’s door twice monthly. 
It can be difficult when shopping online to find the deal you want or to be able to sell your own goods in a way that is completely safe. Even on a trusted site like eBay, you face many potential scams as either a buyer or a seller, and PayPal made many changes over the years after losing millions of dollars to fraud. Nonetheless, the online market is a lucrative and worthwhile venture with great potential. Fortunately for those who buy and sell online, there is Addoway, a service that helps you to utilize the online marketplace without fear. It works to reduce fraud and make the marketplace experience more secure for buyers and sellers by allowing them to buy/sell from friends or other sources proven by social media. 
Apps, social media, and personal interest websites are a fragmented collection of what many people bounce from one thing to another in order to access. The number of products and services media outlets, amateur-enthusiast blogs, brand-owned social media streams, retail and e-commerce vendors provide is practically innumerable. For someone trying to navigate this world, particularly on mobile devices, the experience can be daunting. Enter Krush, a single online destination for all of your interests. While so many channels fail to extensively reach the growing community of new and independent brands seeking to connect with a massive potential online fan base, Krush meets a growing need for any lifestyle. Its creators refer to it as “the lifestyle-driven marketplace,” where you can discover products and brands, build your personal style, influence the community and get involved with the creative process. It offers a vastly improved mobile shopping experience, one that is social at its core. 