Ian Hunter

  • Zaarly adds Arrington to investor list, sets sights on seven core cities

    Less than a week after its national rollout on May 19, Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. “Full disclosure,” Arrington said at the end of the May 23 interview, “I asked you if I could invest and we’re trying to work…

  • Behind the scenes of Zaarly’s SXSW launch

    As I prepared for the trip down to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive earlier this month, I kept a close eye on the Silicon Prairie attendee Twitter stream to see what folks from the region were up to in Austin. The expected tweets about panels and parties raised my anticipation as usual, but…

  • Zaarly closes $1 million seed round, Bo Fishback going full-time

    Remember that startup we first wrote about less than two weeks ago? The one that launched at Startup Weekend Los Angeles on February 20 with a pitch by Kansas Citian Bo Fishback? The one that had celebrities Demi Moore and LeVar Burton tweeting about it the night it launched? Yeah, that one: Zaarly. Earlier today,…

  • Zaarly turning ecommerce on its head, set to launch at SXSW (Video)

    (Left, Bo Fishback presents Zaarly at Startup Weekend Los Angeles. Photo by Jim Alden via flickr.com/techfrog.) Over the course of three weeks, Zaarly will go from building a prototype and pitching Hollywood celebrity and startup investor Ashton Kutcher to aggresively launching at the tech industry’s largest conference, South by Southwest Interactive. If their quick turnaround…