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.

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A board chair leads the board’s effort to excel at advising on strategy, monitoring performance, overseeing finance and controls, and evaluating management. A CEO establishes within the company a shared set of values, practices, and goals that enables the company to execute its strategic plan and build a meaningful future. To grow, a company needs... See more

Why the CEO Shouldn’t Also Be the Board Chair

Thanks to increased consumer consciousness around sustainability, the circular economy, and fair labor, resale has become fashion’s hottest sector—and brands want in. But scaling and making resale profitable isn’t easy, and with increasing competition in the space, it’s only going to get harder.

Glamour • Shopping Secondhand Is Now a Badge of Honor—Not a Dirty Secret

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

We may balk at having “personal market caps,” but many of us already do – it is simply denominated in the currency of followers. As social media platforms have increased in importance, the blue-chip entities of this exchange – influencers – have found ways to transmute social capital into financial capital.

Mario Gabriele • Social Tokens: The Economy of You | The Generalist

The app connects clothing brands, and consumers, with individual seamsters who can mend, alter or tailor new or pre-loved clothing. The app has many aims, according to its 24-year-old founder Josephine Philips: It wants to extend the lifetime of clothing, and generate work for the many small seamster businesses on high streets across the country.

Samantha Conti • Tailoring, Repairs App Sojo Raises $2.4 Million in Pre-seed Funding

on-going compilation of my notes, tweets, threads, blogposts and thinking re: strategy, which may eventually cohere into an ebook of its own

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Why the CEO Shouldn’t Also Be the Board Chair

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At surface level, Shein and Depop are polar opposites, but this is more about the what and the how of their business models. Diving deeper, we see that both Shein and Depop address a similar who and why. Both Shein and Depop meet the same underlying consumer needs for trendy, cheap fashion.