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.
Danielle Vermeer
The following is a list of features and technology you would never build if you’ve been a teen girl:
Emma Bates • Me, My Teen Self and Instagram
We make choices that signal what we wish to convey.Signaling is the act of conveying information about ourselves to people in a way that is costly for us and therefore believable. Without the associated cost of sending a signal, we would not be able to trust the information being sent.
Farnam Street • Signaling: The Language Peacocks, Gazelles, and Humans All Speak
These resale sites have low-to-zero marginal costs because they don’t have standard product COGS, physical distribution, and transaction costs. For example, Poshmark enables the connection between millions of sellers and buyers. The seller manages inventory, photography, pricing, marketing, packaging, and fulfillment. By making it easy to sell,... See more
Goodwill Hunting • Goodwill Hunting #06: how aggregation theory applies to resale fashion
Automated curation will not replace human curators. Despite Skyscanner’s powerful algorithms, Jack’s Flight Club has 1,500,000+ members and ~$800,000 in revenue.
Curation as a Service: No-Code Directories, Personal Brands, Digital Products
Neurodiversity and
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.
Femstreet • Community-Led Growth Nirvana
on-going compilation of my notes, tweets, threads, blogposts and thinking re: strategy, which may eventually cohere into an ebook of its own