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Re: College Fashion Blogs

angie — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:51:04 -0000

Here's a great new site for inspirational ideas and to share your looks with other people www.vivvva.com

Re: College Fashion Blogs

sarahwhitman — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:03:05 -0000

Found new site with fashion from the U.K and party dresses for under $50! http://axparisusa.com

Re: College Fashion Blogs

Brian — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:09:42 -0000

you must check out College Fashionista (www.collegefashionista.com) - features street style photos taken on 50 campuses throughout the U.S. everyday showing the emerging trends on campuses across the country and around the world

Re: Recommender Systems and why Fashion Social Shopping hasn’t worked

flyingfromsky — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:05:02 -0000

Wholesaleclothing4u.com is one of chinese leading wholesale clothing distributors dedicated to wholesale of women's Fashion Clothing

Re: College Fashion Blogs

Name — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:30:43 -0000

I like http://www.collegefashion.net

Re: Memory Game: Newest StyleHop Fashion Game

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Re: Recommender Systems and why Fashion Social Shopping hasn’t worked

Petite Lingerie — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:27:48 -0000

I think a niche social market focused around one particular fashion would improve the recommender system. I think people are not being recommended the most relevant and best recommendations. With that said, I think Amazon has made some great strives with their recommendation system as it has proven to show relevant recommendations and has been very intuitive.

Re: Niche Social Networking Taking Off

BrendaZarate — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:50:02 -0000

It's interesting to know the percentage of businesses not incorporating social media. Will such business really have trouble in the next year if the online social medium is not utilized?

Re: College Fashion Blogs

emma — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:16:43 -0000

lucindaandjane.blogspot.com is a great blog I just found. It's fairly new, but it is very visually based. Lots of great WEARABLE outfits and new music and art too.

Re: Social Media Fashion 2.0 Internships

David Reinke — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:32:21 -0000

Try DavidReinke (decided to grab the whole name!).

Re: Social Media Fashion 2.0 Internships

trishdarling — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:19:56 -0000

Where did your twitter page go :(?

Re: Top Ten List - What Makes a Great Online Game

Hilary — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:23:37 -0000

In order to make a game fun, and worthy of play add photos from recent runway shows or trend alerts out of the newest fashion mags. Also, make them informational yet engaging at the same time!

Re: Top Ten List - What Makes a Great Online Game

Dae Lovely — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:04:54 -0000

well, for sure- one that pops out so that i can play it at work! : )

Re: StyleHop API

Seriously — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:32:25 -0000

This has got to be the stupidest contest I have ever seen.

Re: College Fashion Blogs

Anne — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:23:49 -0000

I know that it is a relatively new blog, but I have started keeping my eye on "Midwest Meets 7th Ave".

This blog is definitely targeted at both a college crowd and young professionals that love fashion. I really like that the author talks about her own effort to break into the fashion industry and her subsequent insider perspective.

I really suggest you check it out!

http://midwestmeets7thave.w...

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

dmreinke — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:06:08 -0000

I'm not personally convinced that VC is dead.....it's just going to get smaller. But this can't happen overnight. There are lots of funds that raised $200mm + in the last few years. They have capital they need to deploy.

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

NY Entrepreneur — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:38:47 -0000

At the time, we weren't planning on going past the family/friends round - we were going to bootstrap it ourselves with a few hundred thousand, our group of passionate team members, and a low burn rate. Mind you, we're all young professionals or recent grads, some of us still in school, so this was going to be more of a dorm room style start-up.

Well, at this point we've changed our plans and will be going the traditional route - we've brought in more experienced businesspeople, gotten help and advice from others that we've sought out, and will be taking an approach that would require an angel/seed funding round but grow the company into something bigger. Our technology and ideas were and are strong enough; it's just a change of direction.

We probably would have reached this stage and approach in the future anyway, but I think the economy pushed us to turn to this sooner, rather than grow it more organically.

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

Glenn Engstrand — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:58:30 -0000

I remember attending this lecture at Stern about business plans. The professor was asked about the chances of VC participation in the current, post bubble world. He did say that most money has gone to safer havens or to companies that they have already invested in pre bubble.

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

Mark Moran — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:41:07 -0000

VCs have some excuse for not investing aggressively, as they need more money for their existing investments and more difficulty raising funds. But many corporate investors/acquirers have no such excuse, and yet consistently fail to buy at bottom lows, and make big mistakes at the peaks, as I wrote here:

http://tinyurl.com/76qyww

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

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Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

dmreinke — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:12:31 -0000

Stage does matter, I agree. We raised over $500k in a family/friends seed round in March of 2008 to get us in the position we are today. It's true we couldn't get that kind of round done today.

However, now there are more people on the sidelines in the tech world that you can put to work for equity (vs cash)....so bootstrapping is MUCH cheaper than it was in early 2008. We have a lower burn and a stronger team than we had just six months ago.

While building a $10mm company still makes you an entrepreneur, it definitely doesn't make you a fundable startup - even for angels. With that kind of business the risks are still there but the upside is gone for investors. I highly recommend you spend no time trying to raise money and focus all your efforts on gathering people up that believe in you, the business and are willing to help you do the work.

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

NY Entrepreneur — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:42 -0000

My comment is similar to Corey's. For entrepreneurs trying to bootstrap with a little bit from family, friends, and angels, the collapse in financial markets has most certainly made an impact. My own company had promises from the one family member who has any kind of money, but he lost too much in the crash and isn't experienced enough to believe us or research it himself when we tell him that other risk factors have gone down.

You might say that this stage or size of company isn't what you had in mind, but isn't an entrepreneur with a passion to build a $10 million company rather than the $100 million company still an entrepreneur? We're still aiming to create jobs and bring a great piece of software to market, and those are worthwhile aims.

Re: Message to Startups: Risk hasn’t increased….it’s just changed

coreyh — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:37:04 -0000

I'd agree with that assessment, the main challenge for early stage startups is in finding angels / bridge financing. For the groups of startups that were able to raise that kind of money (or don't need it) before the market crash, they are sitting pretty. Angels who found themselves with decimated stock portfolios tend to be tighter with their money than they used to be.

Re: Interview with StyleHop’s founder, David Reinke

dmreinke — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:14:52 -0000

Hi Lauren.

Please contact Emily Schreiber regarding our internship program (eschreiber@stylehop.com)

Re: Interview with StyleHop’s founder, David Reinke

Lauren Davenport — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:27:36 -0000

I love this whole thing. My name is Lauren Davenport and I wanted to speak with you Mr. Reinke if I could. I would love to help, get an internship or anything. Please let me know.