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
Rigorous Observational Interviewing (RgOI) goes beyond what the user says or even does to find those nuggets of insights lurking behind their words and behaviors.
Hema Padhu • The art and science of great customer interviews - Part I
How to Create and Manage a Board : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
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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... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Expanding Job
Notionally the role the CEO is to run the company the role of the Chairman is to manage the CEO and the board. However, in practice the relationship between the Chairman and CEO is so much more than that. The ideal Chairman is a mentor, coach, and critical friend. The ideal CEO is open, coachable, and responsive. The quality of their relationship... See more
Richard J Turner • A Critical Friend: Relationship of the Chairman and CEO | Startups Magazine
3.5 Splitting the Roles of Chairman and CEO | Early Stage Tech Boards
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Given that everyone can now buy designer handbags and new cars, the rich have taken to using much more tacit signifiers of their social position.
bbc • The new, subtle ways the rich signal their wealth
When you visibly repair something, it becomes individual. That changes our relationship to our clothing and builds connection with it.