• Bussiness Insider, Friday, November 13, 2009 4 PM

Business Insider take an intimate look inside the Brooklyn headquarters of Etsy -- an e-commerce hub for buyers and sellers of handmade goods, vintage goods, and art supplies, which did $130 million in yearly gross merchandise sales at the end of October. That number is up from $88 million over all of 2008, and a mere $26 million in 2007.

Etsy keeps 3.5% of those sales for its revenues, while other revenue streams include listing fees -- $0.20/item -- and fees for listings that appear on category searches and on a link from the homepage. Meanwhile, the company's culture can be summed up in two words: T-shirt press -- which they keep in the break room in the back.

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