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
This paper, for instance, found three common “inner benefits” shoppers experience when buying counterfeit luxury goods: “First, being efficient by optimizing their resources; second, having fun by experiencing adventure, enjoyment, and risk; and third, fooling others expecting not to be caught.” But, the authors add, “most important, through the... See more
Racked • Why Do People Spend So Much on Fake Stuff?
Future of creator commerce: Making it easy for anyone to recommend a product and be compensated for their impact is the path forward.
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Keeping your slice of the pie - The Startup Founder's Guide to Equity - Part II
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Fashion is the favo
rite entertainment category for US Gen-Zers to spend money on, outranking other categories like dining, video games and consoles, and music.
Business of Fashion • Gen-Z and Fashion in the Age of Realism | BoF Insights
“When you look at the history of the internet,” says Jeremy Morris, associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “a lot of the early spaces for communities also became places where people would either trade or barter.”
Mia Sato • Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
The future of fashion shopping online is where content, community, and (re)commerce collide. Younger consumers are looking for a safe, “third space” online to express their authentic style and to shop cute clothes from trusted peers.
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #21: joining a startup
Instagram has made shopping your feed a near-seamless experience, which has spawned an endless stream of brands that only exist on the app. But the thrifting accounts toe a line between the personal and commercial. Auctioning off old clothes on Instagram is a very 2020 part-time job, and it follows in the footsteps of other ways teens use social... See more
Mia Sato • Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
In this instance, investors would probably like to see founders who are “native enough” to understand crypto and Web3 with a lot of depth and nuances, who have the right network to attract crypto engineers, but who also so native that they can’t understand the experience of the average mainstream, non-crypto user they might be talking to.
Femstreet • The New Creator Economy
Community-powered markets rest on individual point of view and their taste savvy. Buyers and sellers can play both roles at the same or at different times.