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 product isuniquely focused ondriving one corebehavior within theapp that is central tothe vision laid out bythe founders. TheUI/UX for that singularfeature is effortless.
Unusual Ventures • Evaluation Rubric for a Seed-Stage Consumer Social App.pdf
So how does Aggregation Theory apply to secondhand fashion? Resale aggregation relies on resale digitization.Users must first create digital listings of their physical clothes to sell on resale marketplaces like Poshmark, Depop, Ebay, etc. or get discovered on aggregators of aggregators like GEM.
Goodwill Hunting • Goodwill Hunting #06: how aggregation theory applies to resale fashion
RepLadies is a sub-Reddit dedicated to counterfeit luxury goods, and where a community of mostly millennial women gather to acquire them. Exquisite replicas of everything from designer shoes to Rimowa suitcases are available, but the bags are the real attraction. You can get just about anything in any color for one to 10 percent of the price of the... See more
The Cut • Reddit’s RepLadies: Would You Get a Fake Birkin From China?
Consumer Social and
In an age of uneasy affluence, luxury is becoming less and less about collecting highly prized items and possessions. “Today we live in the age of conspicuous egalitarianism. The trick is to signal discernment while conveying everyman casualness.” The new lessons of luxury 👉 https://t.co/2kb5QMLsrL
Liked Tweetstwitter.comif you present yourself as someone who is genuinely earnest, curious, open to listening, non-judgemental, etc, people tend to share their thoughts and feelings. If you make an effort to perform little acts of service, encouragement, support, people will love you
nametwitter.comOff the rack clothes are not designed to fit you.
And I mean you, as in you specifically.
They are made to roughly fit 1000s of people who kinda-sorta share several similar body traits because it’s inexpensive, off the rack fashion, not bespoke custom and that’s how it works.
Cora Harringtontwitter.comIn addition to quarterly in-person board meetings, it’s a good practice to send a 2-page monthly update email (sample here) to the board at the beginning of every month. The email usually includes a summary of last month’s performance; a hiring update; a section outlining burning issues; and a section with specific asks for help.