socalTECH
MARCH 5, 2012
Nasty Gal is led by Sophia Amoruso, who started the company selling vintage clothing on eBay in 2006; the company says its now had over $28M in revenues in 2011, with revenues increasing around 500 percent each year. The firm said the funds will go towards technology, operations, creative curation, and editorial design.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2022
You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. The number of current potential customers is large and growing.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. Tim started to change our processes.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. Online retailer of affordable “accessible luxury” designer fashion. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. total funding $1.7
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2019
You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. The number of current potential customers is large and growing.
socalTECH
APRIL 13, 2015
San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformÂťbuilt in the social and mobile ageÂťdesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. He''s truly the Derek Jeter of the endurance space.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. You know what I’m talking about. You feel it, too.
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