When Ashton Kutcher likes your idea so much he personally invests in it and helps you raise more than $1 million in seed funding, you might be on to something. 
Zaarly is a hyper-localized marketplace that connects 'buyers' looking for a specific item (or service) with 'sellers' who can complete the task.
Willing to pay someone $500 for a Tomos Sprint moped in Washington, DC? How about $25 for someone to critique and proofread your essay contrasting Botswana and South Africa (yes, these are both actual examples)?
Zaarly it.
The site emerged from a Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles and was founded by Bo Fishback, former president of Kauffman Labs. Fishback was also a strong proponent of Global Entrepreneurship Week which he called "an experiment to see if you can really flip the switch in millions of people over the course of a week." 
With backing from Kutcher and others including Gmail founder Paul Bucheit, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and others, the buzz around Zaarly has continued to grow since it launched at South-by-Southwest in May where it did $10,000 worth of business in two days. Recently, it crossed the $1 million mark for jobs posted and was featured in TechCrunch with the following infographic outlining Zaarly's early days. 

 

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