INNOVATE 2009, SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 3, 2009 — Storenvy.com, an online store system and social shopping community, launches today at the PayPal X Innovate 2009 conference. Storenvy connects independent merchants with shoppers in a social setting.

Storenvy offers merchants worldwide a feature-rich and customizable online store that is completely free.

Storenvy’s social shopping features allow shoppers to interact and see each others’ tastes and comments on products across all stores, creating a crowd-curated selection of “Most Popular” items for new users to discover.

PayPal’s new Adaptive Payments application programming interface (API), the first from its open payments platform PayPal X, allows Storenvy shoppers to use one shopping cart and make one payment transaction, even when buying from multiple stores.

“Storenvy is democratizing e-commerce,” said Jon Crawford, Storenvy co-founder. “We’re bringing shoppers and sellers together in a setting that’s extremely interactive and very fun. We live in a time when online shopping should feel more like shopping in a real store. The new Storenvy site is a big step in that direction.”

“Storenvy is a great example of how the power of PayPal X can eliminate the complexities that come with global payments,” said Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of platform. “Storenvy is one of the first adopters of PayPal’s new Adaptive Payments APIs, which give developers the tools to create breakthrough global payment services.”

“PayPal’s new system offers us a lot of advantages over other online payment options,” said Crawford. “We can now facilitate transactions between people on different sides of the world while making sure that our merchants get their money fast.”

In addition to social shopping and online stores, Storenvy also offers a high-quality screen printing service. Storenvy’s online stores can be offered for free on account of the profits brought in by Storenvy Printing, which is a favorite of many top apparel companies. Storenvy store owners are encouraged to use the company’s printing services when needed, but are not required to do so.

Storenvy helps shoppers give back by incorporating a feature called “Give at Checkout” by MissionFish, where purchasers can opt to add $1 or more to their order to support charities selected by Storenvy. Upon launch, Storenvy has partnered with Invisible Children, to help fight child slavery in Uganda.

Storenvy was created by three young entrepreneurs: Crawford, development; Nick Roccanti, business operations, and Scott Anderson, design; with no outside investment.

… and from Lionel Richie.

For our Great LessConf Ticket Giveaway of 2009, we used Random.org to randomly select our winners from all the blog comments and Twitter RTs. And the lucky two are…

Cate from Gifts.tv, which will be the first e-commerce store with full video interactivity!

David, who is an engineering and AutoCAD consultant and aspiring Ruby on Rails developer!

Congratulations to both of you. We look forward to meeting you on the 17th!

Many thanks to the rest of you who entered and helped spread the word.

Here at Storenvy, we get asked to sponsor a lot of events by providing T-shirts. Unfortunately we’re not able to support them all, but we like to lend a hand to groups and events we believe in. One of those events, coming up this Saturday, is SocialChangeCamp NYC. Here’s the description from their website:

SocialChangeCamp is a conference for forward-thinking public interest organizations seeking new and diverse ways to leverage technology to recruit volunteers, build communities, inspire grassroots movements, reach donors and facilitate effective advocacy. SocialChangeCamp empowers socially conscious organizations with channels and techniques that help them find relevance and accessibility in social media and related technology, regardless of their current levels of engagement. By educating, empowering, and connecting our community members, we act as a catalyst for social change.

It will be a BarCamp-style event where attendees pitch themselves as presenters at the beginning of the day, and people can stay for as many or as few events as they like. It will only be as good as the people attending.

If you’re in New York, check it out! Tickets are just $10… and you’ll get an awesome new Storenvy-printed T-shirt!

Kat, one of the event organizers, will be passing our business cards and spreading the word on our eco-friendly water-based screen printing. If you’re there, say hi!

We at Storenvy are really excited to be sponsoring and attending LessConf next month. “What’s LessConf and why should I care,” you ask? It’s been organized by our developer/designer/marketer friends at LessEverything, and in six concise points, you should definitely attend LessConf because:

• It’s like a one-day SXSWi conference. I mean, Gary Vaynerchuk will be there! Plus six other awesome speakers you should hear.
• Everyone who attends gets a copy of GaryVee’s brand new book, Crush It, for FREE.
• The first 100 registrants get to have lunch with the speakers.
• It’s in sunny Jacksonville, FL, where we can all go to the beach afterward.
• It only costs $207 for the first 200 who register, but for a few of you out there, it’s…
• FREE to the TWO OF YOU who win our LESSCONF TICKET GIVEAWAY!

If you still need convincing, how about this:

Here’s one more bonus reason to go – if you pay a little extra, you could get the chance to pick Gary up from the airport. (Details on that come later.) Also, Barcamp Jacksonville will be the next day, so stick around for that.

Good luck!

Anvil came to us and needs get rid of some of their blanks. So we are passing their deals onto you!

50¢ off fashion tees (980) for any size order

75¢ off organic tees (420) for any size order

25¢ off standard blanks (779) for any order of 100 shirts per design

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If you are in the area we would love to meet you! Let us know if you think you can make it!

UPDATE: We are super excited to be hosting IATT.tv, I AM THE TREND’s weekly video podcast.
Tune in live at 8pm CST!

To place an order, visit our Printing Page or email printing(at)storenvy.com.
Mention this discount when ordering.

“A is for Alligator” shirt available from Retse Designs on Storenvy
“The first of our alphabet series shirts. Drawn by our daughter Ellie, wear this whimsical piece of art and help keep art in schools. For every shirt sold, we will donate $1 to The Foundation for Seminole County Schools to go towards art in schools. Just our way of giving back.”

Shake & Shout Shades visit store
What it is: Trendy sunglasses that don’t break the bank! $12-$14 a pair, plus free shipping
Founder: Robb Evancoe
Date founded: Early 2009
Location: Maryland is our home base but we operate all over the U.S.
Websites: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Ctl Alt Dream (sister brand)
Types of products sold on Storenvy: Sunglasses, pins and many more things to come!

Storenvy: “All we want to talk about is partying and fashion!” = Best store description ever! But what else is there to know about you? Give us the bio: Who are you, do you have a team, what is your background?

Robb Evancoe: There is a lot to know about me (Robb) and my team. The company was created based on a super positive and fun vibe. We absolutely LOVE making friends, whether that be a customer or not. We truly value every single sale and treat each one as if it were a million dollar purchase! That’s why we include fun little gifts, pictures and notes with every order and try to exceed all expectations that our customers may have. Yes, I have a team. I work with a lot of different people (sales reps, photographers, street teams) all over the U.S.!

Turbo Dance, $14

SE: Do you have a day job? If so, what?

RE: I used to have a gaggle of different jobs, but now I am 110% SHAKE AND SHOUT!

SE: What inspired you to start Shake & Shout?

RE: I really wanted to start something other than “just another clothing company” and I wanted to start something that was super fun and people were excited to be a part of. We literally have fun 24/7 and take pride in meeting all of our customers/fans/friends.

Snake Skins, $14

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Polar Bear Nation
What it is: An apparel company dedicated to saving polar bears and fighting climate change
Founders: Connor, Emma and Hayley Gilbert (Editor’s note: They’re 17-year-old triplets!)
Date founded: October 2007
Location: Annapolis, MD
Websites: PolarBearNation.com, PolarBearNation.org, StandUpForEarth.com, Facebook, Twitter
Store: polarbearnation.storenvy.com
Types of products on Storenvy: T-shirts, sweatpants, fleece jackets

Storenvy: You and your sisters founded Polar Bear Nation when you were 15 — wow! What inspired you? What is the company all about?

Connor Gilbert: We’re young people, and we’re deeply concerned about what the future holds for our planet and our society. We were moved by reports from the Arctic that even polar bears — literally 1000+ lb animals, “kings” of their ecosystem — are dying, and are in fact now listed a Threatened species. In the next fifty years, it’s predicted that we could lose up to 2/3 of the current bear population due to the loss of Arctic sea ice, and the resulting shorter hunting season.

So, with that sort of situation, we knew that we couldn’t just sit back and let it happen; we wanted to raise public awareness of this dire problem, and we wanted to target a group often ignored by bigger organizations: teens and young adults. Thinking about that, we considered the ways to get attention among that type of people, and the first idea we came up with was through clothing. Who doesn’t like a great shirt that shows what they believe in? And, whenever someone buys a shirt or other item, we give them a card (printed on recycled paper of course!) directing them to our action site, PolarBearNation.org, helping them continue to get involved in the climate fight.

We donate 50% of our profits to Polar Bears International, but what we don’t donate goes to building up the Polar Bear Nation.

Watch Connor and Hayley on CNN’s “Young People Who Rock”

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