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So Sears was basically built on the catalog and the postal service back in the day. And it really hit a lot of people who were marginalized. People who couldn't afford to or were shunned from going into these big department stores with wealthy folks. They'd say, "You're not allowed in here." So if you can get a catalog mailed to your house and you ... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • The Past, Present, and Future of Consumer Social Companies
Sears executed the first retail public share issuance in 1906, through Goldman, Sachs, one of a new breed of Jewish investment banks (Lehmans was another) that focused on the retail and consumer goods businesses overlooked by the Morgans and Kuhn, Loebs of the world. Rosenwald needed the capital infusion to build continuous-processing, mechanized r
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
OEM • New Drugstore
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* RaaS: Offering resale-as-a-service for brands like Everlane and Madewell. They helps merchants monetize returns. As e-commerce grows, so will this channel.
James Reinhart • Lessons in Process Power
About 1% of a company’s value comes from its originating idea.
The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%.
For example:
> Slack’s original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming project failed, the