Inside Scoop

We know, we know. The typical slide deck for investors is supposed to contain 10-15 slides summarizing the opportunity, the market, the business model, the competition, the founding team, the funding requirements and financial projections.
But what we’ve noticed about those 10-15 slides is that a lot of startup presentations…

Well, we’ve done things a little different. [...]

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Image: Brendan Landis via Flickr

When we heard the rumors that Steve & Barry’s 2007 earnings were $20 million, from sales approaching $1 billion, we gave silent thanks that our business doesn’t need inventory, stores or a great bevy of staff.
With Steve & Barry’s 2% sales-to-earnings ratio, they might as well be a semiconductor company. If [...]

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Recently, Sara listed 10 things — other than money — that people will work for. As I look around my living room, full of people here to help out, I can’t help but add two more motivators to the list: food and friendship.
Yes, it’s been a bit of a party here at the Taylor [...]

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Revolutions in clothing retail happen rarely. But they happen big.
Here are the key technologies that changed clothing retail each century. Can you guess what the 21st century one will be?
1600s – The tailor ceased to be the sole preserve of royalty and the aristocracy, as Europe’s merchant and professional classes began to out-source their [...]

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Like many moderately successful fashion bloggers, I get a lot of requests for link exchanges. One that I was sent recently is from a site called iStylista.com. We don’t actually do link exchanges, but since it’s an interesting startup in the online fashion space, it seems worth reviewing here. (So they get a link after [...]

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