Buying a ticket to see your favorite band, movie, sports team, festival, or celebration has become a fairly simple process since the advent of the Internet. Patrons can go to sites like Ticketmaster, ...

Ticket seller Eventbrite has been trying to take market share from Ticketmaster for years, but competing with a giant is tough, especially when it comes to consumers who are already so used to it.

Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is making a big push towards reaching $1 billion in gross ticket sales in 2012; after doubling both the number of events on platform in 2011 (458,207 events in ...