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Andy Dunn • Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
The flaws of a founder are sewn into the foundation of the firm.
Andy Dunn • Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
Said differently, if your business is standalone e-commerce selling third-party brands, good luck. You can’t generate enough operating profit to scale beyond getting noticed, counter-attacked, and at best acquired.
Andy Dunn • E-Commerce is a Bear
The guideshops, our next-generation retail store concept, were a classic story of innovation: notice something in the corner that’s working and that is antithetical to your worldview, open your mind to it, give it some water and nutrients, and watch it flower into a centerpiece of your strategy.
Andy Dunn • Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
I’d spent a year in Dodgeville, Wisconsin—working
Andy Dunn • Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
“Amazon is designed to commoditize products to the lowest common denominator of what they stand for,” Joey Zwillinger, Allbirds’s co-founder
Yiren Lu • Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (Published 2020)
Donnelly, like many of the creators who make their living on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch, has long felt shunned by institutions that don’t understand that his lifestyle is also his business. That makes him the target market for Karat, a new startup offering financial services to the influencer set.
Arielle Pardes • A New Card Ties Your Credit to Your Social Media Stats
—Tina Jiang, Product Manager at Faire
Aashay Sanghvi • Five Startup Ideas #002 | The Generalist
- They keep intermediaries reasonably happy.