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 antithesis of ambition isn’t mediocrity, or underperformance, or laziness. The antithesis of ambition is agency.
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #10: cottagecore, girlboss culture, & the end of ambition
Investors want to see vesting because the success of the company is closely tied to the founder. Startup investors take a risk and bet on people and ideas. They want to see vesting included in founder shares to make sure all founders have the motivation to stick around for the long term.
Yin Wu • Keeping your slice of the pie - The Startup Founder's Guide to Equity - Part II
The space will house the company's operations, including best-in-class authentication, shipping and receiving, warehousing, a photo studio, and a high-security, climate-controlled storage area called "The Cage," which will house up to 15,000 luxury handbags and accessories at any given time, including the largest collection of Hermès Birkin bags in... See more
WWD • Inside Fashionphile’s Interactive 60,000 Square-foot Digs in Chelsea’s Historic Starrett-Lehigh Building
Gen-Z has inverted the design process — aesthetics like Barbiecore, Cottagecore, Dark Academia and Coastal Grandma originated bottoms-up from social media and resale platform content instead of top-down from fashion brands and retailers. As a result, many Gen-Zers tend to adapt pieces representative of trends into their own personal styles, as
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Agency is the drive to play a game you created. Chart your own path. Forget politics. Work when, how, and where you want. Lean in—to your unique “why.”
Danielle Vermeer • Goodwill Hunting #10: cottagecore, girlboss culture, & the end of ambition
Sojo is a London-based app that connects brands and consumers with seamsters with the goal of extending the life of new, pre-loved and vintage clothing.
Samantha Conti • Tailoring, Repairs App Sojo Raises $2.4 Million in Pre-seed Funding
Not all attention and views are created equal.
- Attention is cheap . It’s easy to grab. Even easier to fake. The impact: revenue doesn’t scale.
- Intention is hard to gain . It takes consistency and purpose. It takes connection with your audience. The impact: revenue has a higher ceiling than you can imagine.”
Codie Sanchez • 6 Tier Content Frame: The only way to monetize
