Aditya and Aarti Kochhar Kaji didn’t set out to start the snack food business Taali Foods when they were studying for their business degrees at Harvard. The couple both hail from Mumbai and met at the University of Pennsylvania . They were married before starting at Harvard’s Business School and initially were interested in other areas […]
View More Taali takes its popped water lily snacks from Y Combinator to the worldCategory: Dollar Shave Club
Farfetch bets on sneakers with $250M Stadium Goods acquisition
Luxury fashion marketplace Farfetch will tap into the sneaker resale economy with its latest transaction.
View More Farfetch bets on sneakers with $250M Stadium Goods acquisitionBuilding a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention
Many entrepreneurs assume that an invention carries intrinsic value, but that assumption is a fallacy.
View More Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great inventionThe brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail
Postie, a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition) think that its time to take technology […]
View More The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mailThe many twists and turns of hardware
I don’t think anyone would disagree that building a successful hardware business has quite literally many more moving parts than software.
View More The many twists and turns of hardwareSouthern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem
Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position. Through interviews with […]
View More Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystemDollar Shave Club finally has a real competitor for women’s shaving
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Dollar Shave Club, which is basically just razors sold through the mail, sold for $1 billion. The subscription razor delivery service offers its wholesale-cost shaving products for anyone who wants to use them—but it’s still mostly marketed for men.
That’s why the founders of Billie, a new startup, think they have a way into the surprisingly lucrative subscription shaving business.
“We looked at the shaving categories and we saw a lot of companies focused on providing a better shaving experience for men,” co-founder Georgina Gooley said. “Women have been kind of an afterthought in this category.” Read more…
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