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2019-06-21

How MeUndies Sold Millions of Pairs of Underwear Direct to Consumers

How MeUndies Sold Millions Of Pairs Of Underwear

How did direct to consumer startup MeUndies (domain: meundies.com) sell over 10 million pairs of underwear? Founder Jonathan Shokrian talks to CNBC about shock advertising, social media and MeUndies' road to success.

Jonathan Shokrian started MeUndies after a negative experience buying underwear at a department store. He raised $400,000, mostly from friends and family, and launched the millennial-friendly direct to consumer underwear start-up in 2011.
"Ecommerce is not just Amazon. It’s every online retailer out there, including the tiniest mom-and-pop operations. It’s manufacturers selling directly to consumers. In fact, it’s manufacturers in India or China selling directly to US consumers as third party-vendors on platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, and others. The entire world is trying to sell directly to US consumers, bypassing classic middlemen, wholesalers, distribution channels, importers, and of course, brick-and-mortar retailers."--Wolfstreet.com
According to Shokrian, MeUndies has sold over 10 million pairs of underwear and has been profitable in each of the past three years. The company will end 2019 with at least $75 million in annual revenue. How did MeUndies start a successful direct to consumer brand? MeUndies was off to a slow start until it turned to social media and harnessed the power of provocation. CNBC video above published June 7, 2019.


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2019-05-15

Streetwear Brand Supreme And Its War Against 'Legal Fakes' (video)

Supreme is under siege by imitators. Here's why it's legal

This CNN business video has been updated to clarify the language describing IBF's trademark status in China and the date of a quote. Streetwear brand Supreme is loved by celebrities and valued at $1 billion. But overseas it's waging war against "legal fakes" companies that are legally imitating the brand in countries from Spain to China.

@supremenewyork The official Twitter account of Supreme® EST 1994, NYC. All other accounts are fake.
Official domain: supremenewyork.com

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2019-01-02

'Social Media-Famous, Budget-Friendly Clothier' Fashion Nova

Welcome To The Future | FASHION NOVA

Fashion Nova video above published Dec 14, 2018.
"Google’s most-searched fashion brand of the year -- right ahead of Louis Vuitton and Versace -- was Fashion Nova, a social media-famous, budget-friendly clothier that markets itself to a diverse customer base."--What Eight Social Trends Told Us About America's Economy in 2018 | Bloomberg.com.
Domain: fashionnova.com


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2018-12-14

Diane Von Fürstenberg, Founder & Chairman, DVF (video)

Diane Von Fürstenberg, Founder & Chairman, DVF

Stanford Graduate School of Business video above published Nov 12, 2018: “People say I made the dress. Yes, I made the dress, but really, the dress made me. Thanks to this dress, I became more confident. I was sharing my confidence, I was selling my confidence,” Diane Von Fürstenberg, founder of fashion line DVF (domain: dvf.com), told students at this View From The Top event. Her iconic wrap dress became the look for working women in the 1970’s and continues to make a statement.

Born in Brussels and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Von Fürstenberg believes in “never being the victim.” Today, Von Fürstenberg supports and awards women entrepreneurs around the world. “When you are successful, two things happen,” she told the audience. “One is that you can pay your bills and the second is that you have a voice. And once that happens, it’s a gift and a privilege to use your voice for those who don’t have a voice.” Von Fürstenberg was interviewed by Tadia James, Stanford GSB MBA ’19.


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2018-10-10

Tech at the Heart of Startup ThirdLove's Intimate Apparel Success (video)

Tech Is at the Heart of ThirdLove's Success, Co-CEO Heidi Zak:

Third Love, Tech, & Retail Disruption: co-founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer Heidi Zak speaking at the 2018 WWD (Women's Wear Daily) Digital Forum NYC, Sep 13, 2018, says technology is at the heart of ThirdLove's success. (Heidi was voted "Top 3" speaker of the day by the audience--more on WWD Digital Forum here).

Struggles of the owner of Victoria's Secret (victoriassecret.com), L Brands (lb.com), has allowed a number of startups to grab market share in the intimate apparel space and one of the most successful is ThirdLove, one of the fastest growing consumer companies in the U.S.

ThirdLove, Inc.
Domain: ThirdLove.com
Business founded: 2013
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Number of employees: 260
Founders: Heidi Zak, Dave Spector



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2018-08-25

Tech Review: 1) Digital Fashion Models, 2) Dating in the Digital Age

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Tech Review (TR 2018-08-25)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Digital Fashion Models, 2) Dating in the Digital Age3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes: Bull Market, Emerging Markets, Turkey, Venezuela, China, EU, US4)ICYMI Tech News: Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft, Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba, Tencent, Nordstrom.

1) Miquela, Shudu, And The Rise Of Digital Fashion Models 

There are an increasing number of digital fashion models. Some have thousands and even millions of Instagram followers and brands and retailers are starting to show interest. A look at the growing trend. CNBC.com video published Aug 21, 2018

2) Dating in the Digital Age

Over 200 million people worldwide use online dating platforms and about one-third of married couples in the U.S. meet online. In this Economist cover story, an examination of the way online dating has changed and the way people now search for love. Economist.com video above published Aug 17, 2018.

3) Investing
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The Week: NASDAQ Composite +1.7% | S&P 500 Index +0.9 | DJIA +0.5%

"The data still points to U.S. equity markets as being the better asset class. Look around the world. We're the best game in town ... If someone calls telling you to take money out of the U.S. and put it in emerging markets because they are cheap, HANG UP. Dead money for 12 years. Cheap for a reason."--Belpointe Asset Management chief strategist David Nelson.
"The main reason why Stay Home has been outperforming Go Global since the start of the bull market is that the forward earnings (i.e., the time-weighted average of consensus estimates for this year and next year) of the US MSCI stock price index has outpaced the forward earnings of the All Country World ex-US MSCI (in local currencies). The former is up 172% since it bottomed during the 4/30 week of 2009 through the 8/2 week this year, while the latter is up 78% over the same period"--Dr. Ed Yardeni.
Wall Street's Charging Bull
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Investing Notes:
Goldman Sachs "cut its bond yield forecasts for all the G-10 countries based on changes in the outlook for monetary policy and inflation in several regions and less recovery in term premium in the U.S." Goldman lowered its end-2018 forecast for the 10-year (US) Treasury yield to 3.10% from 3.25%, and still expects 6 more rate hikes, or one per quarter until the Fed funds rate rises to 3.25%-3.5%--ZeroHedge.com.
Emerging Markets: 
  • Turkey's lira still under pressure, Trump resolute--reuters.com 
  • Venezuela devalues its currency, the bolívar, by 95% and pegs it to a cryptocurrency--trying to contain "rampant inflation of more than 1 million percent a year."--businessinsider.com.
China: In their IPO filings, Chinese startups are warning investors about Tencent and Alibaba--Startups Struggle to Escape the Shadows of Alibaba and Tencent | Bloomberg.com: "the startups benefit from the cash and customers Alibaba and Tencent provide, [but] the deals can also feel like a trap. They can give Alibaba and Tencent inordinate voting power through board seats and veto rights; come laden with conflicts of interest over hiring, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic decisions; and deepen the startups’ dependence on traffic from the larger companies to life-and-death proportions."

EU: Denmark targets U.S. and British companies and individuals in its global campaign to recoup billions of crowns allegedly paid out in fraudulent tax refunds between 2012 and 2015--reuters.com.

US: 
  • SEC rejects bitcoin ETFs--expressing concern about fraud and manipulation of bitcoin markets--cnbc.com.
  • Student loans are now the second-largest category of household debt in America, topping $1.4 trillion, trailing only mortgages at $9 trillion--zerohedge.com.

4) ICYMI Tech News:
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  • Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’--Bloomberg.com: "pushback from devs like Valve, Netflix and regulatory scrutiny."
  • Tesla $TSLA: "The Hype is No Longer with Tesla: Suppliers & Creditors Start to Fret"--WolfStreet.com  Aug 20, 2018: "18 of 22 suppliers believe Tesla is now a financial risk to their companies."
  • Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from providing 5G wireless network equipment to support the country's new telecom networks, citing risks of foreign interference and hacking--NYTimes.com.
  • Alibaba joins Google, others in making custom AI chips--CNBC.com.
  • Online vs Brick-and-Mortar Retail: Nordstrom  NYSE: JWN shares were up 12% after it reported better-than-expected results, but the results were due to ecommerce online sales, not brick-and-mortar store sales. Sales from Nordstrom.com soared 50% year-over year to $897 million, and including its other e-commerce sites, total online sales jumped 23% to $1.35 billion, or to 34% of its total sales--WolfStreet.com.

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2018-05-14

Sara Blakely, Self-Made Billionaire, Founder and CEO of Spanx (video)

Sara Blakely, Founder and CEO, Spanx

Stanford Graduate School of Business video above published Apr 17, 2018: Sara Blakely, founder and CEO of Spanx (domain: spanx.com), discusses her journey from inventing Spanx to becoming the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.

She talks about having the right mindset for starting a company, running a business with feminine principles, and how to successfully grow your company:
“I’m of the belief-system that you should start small, think big, and scale fast. A lot of entrepreneurs want to start big and think big, but oftentimes get ahead of themselves.”


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2017-06-02

Luxury Emerges from Doldrums & Technology Transforms Luxury (video)

Luxury emerges from doldrums

The luxury goods industry is emerging from a tough couple of years as demand from China has slowed. From the FT Business of Luxury Summit in Lisbon, Daniel Garrahan reports on the challenges and opportunities facing industry leaders.

Technology transforms luxury

Miroslava DumaFounder and CEO, Fashion Tech Labs Venture Inc.; Co-founder, Buro 24/7, The Tot

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2016-10-14

Winners: Snapchat; Amazon; Google | Losers: Costco; Sam's Club; Fashion

Scott Galloway: Innovation is a Snap:

NYU Stern Marketing Professor Scott Galloway presents this week's "biggest winners and losers in digital"--

Winner: Snapchat. No longer just an app, the company aims to reinvent the camera with Spectacles, its new hardware product. Domains: snap.com, snapchat.com, spectacles.com

Loser: Warehouse clubs like Costco and Sam's Club, which are rapidly losing share to Amazon Prime. Domains: costco.com, samsclub.com, amazon.com

Loser: Fashion insiders. As brands adopt the see now, buy now format and post on Instagram and Snapchat, fashion executives need to keep pace with the changing times.

Winner: Google, which recently celebrated its 18th birthday. Domain: google.com

Video above published Oct 13, 2016, by L2inc.com.

Auto-generated transcript via YouTube.com:
0:00 a winner snap chatters they like to be
0:04 called snap inc no longer just a nap
0:07 the firm is releasing a hardware product
0:09 called spectacles spectacles lets users
0:12 snap with the push of a button
0:14 chief strategy officer in Ron contoured
0:16 advertiser's last week that snap bank is
0:19 not a social media company but a camera
0:21 company he believes the reinventing the
0:23 camera is snaps greatest opportunity
0:26 with a price tag ten percent that of the
0:29 predecessor google glass it's easy to
0:31 see that snap-in gets its users the last
0:34 24 months have been a constant march of
0:36 innovation from the good people at
0:38 snapping concluding geo filters discover
0:41 lenses chat and memories losers
0:45 warehouse clubs in the past four years
0:46 the share of us households only paying
0:49 for a costco membership decline from 15
0:52 to ten percent remember subscribing only
0:54 to sam's club plunge from 17 to ten
0:57 percent at the same time the percentage
0:59 of amazon prime only subscribers has
1:01 more than doubled from seven to sixteen
1:03 percent what a shocker is Amazon
1:06 creating havoc with these guys prime is
1:07 also benefiting from a new trend of
1:10 households joining multiple retail clubs
1:12 forty-four percent of u.s. households
1:13 are amazon prime members think about
1:15 that if cord-cutting continues in five
1:18 to eight years they'll be more
1:19 households in america with a membership
1:21 to amazon prime then have cable
1:23 television a loser fashion insiders
1:26 after Milan Fashion Week vogue editors
1:28 called fashion influencers and bloggers
1:30 pathetic and said they were heralding
1:33 the death of style neiman marcus blame
1:35 bloggers for the past year falling sales
1:37 but who's the real loser here
1:39 fashion retail executive stuck in the
1:41 past who aren't angry at bloggers but
1:44 angry themselves in the world because
1:45 bottom line they're becoming less
1:47 relevant who's into fashion
1:49 Jack Dorsey Marissa Mayer who's not mark
1:52 zuckerberg you do the math a hundred
1:54 percent of brands showing at Fashion Week
1:56 had an Instagram account and seventy
1:59 percent were on snapchat a fifth of
2:00 brands and integrated the new director
2:02 consumer seen out by now
2:04 runway format the devil used to wear
2:07 Prada what does she wear now no one
2:09 gives a shit a winner google in
2:12 September 27 this
2:13 search engine turned 18 so Google
2:16 congratulations you can drive you can
2:18 buy a bullet bike you can serve your
2:20 country join the army
2:22 you can buy a gun but you can't drink
2:23  that makes sense with a market cap of
2:25 541 billion google is second only to
2:28 apple and value the google doodle was
2:31 launched in august of $YEAR 98 a month
2:33 prior to the company's incorporation the
2:35 first doodle inserted the Burning Man
2:37 symbol behind the OS a subtle out of the
2:40 office message is the two founders
2:42 headed to the festival the most popular
2:45 doodle the playable guitar published in
2:47 june 2011 and 48 hours 5.1 million years
2:52 of music was created we leave you with
2:54 some of our favorite Google Doodles
2:56 we'll see you next week
3:15 ok
4:01 proud to announce l2 glass
4:18 subscribe now
4:20 I said what's your problem


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2016-07-21

Burberry: British Luxury Fashion Retail, $BRBY UP 16% Since Brexit (video)

Burberry’s Brexit and Boardroom Bounce:

Shares in iconic British retailer Burberry have risen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU, with help from a change in top management. FT.com's Robert Armstrong, head of Lex, explains why. Video published July 18, 2016.
  • Domain name: burberry.com
  • Stock Exchange & Symbol: LON: BRBY
Chart: July 20, 2016 - Burberry $BRBY shares close UP 16.5% since Brexit vote, June 23
July 20, 2016: Burberry $BRBY shares close UP 16.5% since Brexit vote, June 23
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2015-10-08

Yves Béhar, Fuseproject, the Future of Tech and Design (video)



How Silicon Valley Is Rethinking Design: Yves Béhar, Fuseproject's founder and principal designer, discusses the future of tech and design with Bloomberg's Emily Chang and Brad Stone at the VF New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. Published on Oct 8, 2015.

"Fuseproject is an award-winning industrial design and branding firm founded in 1999 by the designer and entrepreneur Yves Béhar. It works across a wide array of industries including beauty and fashion, furniture and technology. The company is based in San Francisco and New York." (source: Wikipedia) see tweets below re: Movado watch

Domain name: fuseproject.com





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2015-09-04

Myntra CEO Mukesh Bansal on Startup Success, Fashion, Online Retailing (video)



Mukesh Bansal CEO of  Myntra and Head of Commerce for Flipkart talks about his journey from the startup of Myntra to where it is today. Mukesh believes in creating a happy environment in his workplace which is reflected in the creatively designed interiors at Myntra's Bangalore, India, office. Myntra is a market leader in fashion and lifestyle retailing and is set to make the most from the evolution of e-commerce in India.

Domain names of companies referenced: myntra.com and flipkart.com


2015-04-28

The Apple Watch: Jony Ive and Marc Newson, British Vogue Interview Video

Jony Ive and Marc Newson on the Apple Watch with Suzy Menkes (published April 24, 2015)

"I hope people will like the watch and will find it a personal and beautiful product" -- Jony Ive

Topics: Innovation, Design, Technology, Fashion, Luxury, Product -- transcript excerpts:

"…. [Our] focus has been on trying our very best to develop a product that is beautiful and useful on. I mean quite honestly when we started work on the iPhone, the motivation there was ... we wanted a better phone. When we worked on the watch the motivations were completely different. We happen to love watches … collected mechanical watches for many years … it was because we saw that the risk was a fabulous place for technology and so the motivation was very different … I think you know the wrist is and has always been for literally hundreds if he is one of the best places on the body to to put an object … we can only imagine even how much we upgrade our phones this is going to need an upgrade … How do you think most people are going to use the new watch? People will use it for very different reasons. To some people it will be … the health and fitness capabilities and … other people have been really intrigued by some of the perhaps more intuitive, more personal ways of communicating with other people that wear the watch. I see this is one of the first times that we could make some assumptions that somebody else has this product intimately connected with them for most of the day. You can't make that assumption with the phone and so you can actually communicate … you can actually communicate in some new ways and I think this is just the beginning. But I think we've had some very encouraging feedback … we chose that material [gold] because we loved it and we didn't just buy off the shelf -- we developed our own gold and we love these attributes and how it felt … in the real world sadly so many objects, so much a manufactured environment testifies to carelessness ... something that was built to a price point or to a schedule … But you know there's no doubt that you are now producing things that may be more desirable than traditional luxury to consumers particularly the younger consumers, don't you think that's cool? I don't know, we'll see. I think that what I do know … our intent has remained the same and is consistent, which has been to try and take what is remarkable technology in terms of its capability and its utility and to make it more and more personal and that's what we're trying to do ... I hope people will like the watch and will find it a personal and beautiful … product …"

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2015-03-11

How Customers Like to Shop Changing Rapidly says Neiman CEO (video)

How Customer Likes to Shop Changing Rapidly: Neiman CEO -
fashion, retail, online, internet, social media, digital:

Neiman Marcus CEO Karen Katz discusses fashion and retailing in the digital world. She speaks on “Market Makers” on March 6, 2015. 25% of Neiman's business is online and growing.

domain name: neimanmarcus.com

2015-03-09

Cynthia Rowley, 21st Century Fashion Designer, Digitally Online (video)

Cynthia Rowley: The 21st Century Fashion Designer - Cynthia Rowley designs dresses, swimwear, wetsuits, accessories - even notebooks and pads for Staples. Here is Cynthia Rowley's take on what being a successful designer means to her - on the runway and digitally online. She spoke with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."

domain name: cynthiarowley.com


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