Danielle Vermeer

@daniellevermeer

Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.

It’s not that people don’t want to work. It’s that their jobs feel, for whatever reason, unsustainable: unsustainable for their mental and physical health, but also unsustainable for their family, and their longterm survival. Many people actually really like the work that they do, if they were, indeed, allocating the bulk of their time to doing tha... See more
from The Expanding Job by Anne Helen Petersen
Community and marketing however, have different inputs and outputs. Unlike GTM, GTC focuses on creating value, educating, entertaining and equipping individuals independent of their business relationship.
from Community-Led Growth Nirvana by Femstreet
Equity is the unit of ownership of your company. It has two features:
from Keeping your slice of the pie - The Startup Founder's Guide to Equity - Part I by Yin Wu
7 out of a16z ’s latest Marketplace 100 are resale marketplaces. 2 of these 7 are in the top 10 (GOAT, StockX). Since last year, 3 resale marketplaces “graduated” via IPO or acquisition (Depop, 1stDibs, Tradesy).
from The Marketplace 100: 2022 by Brandon Barros
So how does Aggregation Theory apply to secondhand fashion? Resale aggregation relies on resale digitization.Users must first create digital listings of their physical clothes to sell on resale marketplaces like Poshmark, Depop, Ebay, etc. or get discovered on aggregators of aggregators like GEM.
from Goodwill Hunting #06: how aggregation theory applies to resale fashion by Goodwill Hunting
Shifting fashion from a perpetual growth model to a sustainable approach will not be easy. Moving to a post-growth fashion industry would require policymakers and the industry to bring in a wide range of reforms, and reimagine roles and responsibilities in society.
from The Guardian by The Guardian
Writing books is largely a charitable act. Don’t write to make money. Write to get a message out. Seth Godin says “Publishing a book is really nothing but a socially acceptable opportunity to promote yourself and your ideas far and wide and often”.
from Self-Publishing: Write in Public, Presales, Podcasts
The United Nations Environmental Programme found that not only is the dyeing process for fabrics the second largest source of water pollution, but that the fashion industry alone is producing 20% of the world's wastewater.
from Bio-inspired textiles promote sustainable fashion by Phys.org
We’re especially bad at talking about it because of a collective tendency to treat ailments as personal. Sure, we can acknowledge that it takes a small village to support someone battling cancer. But what if the damn village caused the cancer? And not just one person’s cancer, or their immediate family’s, but everyone who looks like them, or lives ... See more
from That's a Stress Response by Anne Helen Petersen

from The Expanding Job by Anne Helen Petersen

from Community-Led Growth Nirvana by Femstreet

from Keeping your slice of the pie - The Startup Founder's Guide to Equity - Part I by Yin Wu

from The Marketplace 100: 2022 by Brandon Barros

from Goodwill Hunting #06: how aggregation theory applies to resale fashion by Goodwill Hunting

from The Guardian by The Guardian

from Self-Publishing: Write in Public, Presales, Podcasts

from Bio-inspired textiles promote sustainable fashion by Phys.org

from That's a Stress Response by Anne Helen Petersen