Category Archives: Technology

On Data, Pinterest and Emotional Responses.

Data, stats and conversions are coming up more and more often in my daily business conversations. The more I talk about it with people, the more I realize how little knowledge we have about the effects of the web not only on our business, but our lives in general. We learned to measure  views, likes, [...]

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Why We Don’t Need Another Fashion App.

Dear bright brains who drive the fashion startup community, Please stop coding for a moment and ask yourself why? Why are you adding another sharing feature to the “highly curated set of most repined looks by street style taste makers with above average Klout score?” My answer to you is: We don’t need this. We [...]

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The Future of Fashion: Look at Innovative Retail Models.

Besides innovating on the runways, these days fashion brands have to think about the overall strategy of distributing and marketing products to the consumer. They have to see fashion as products vs seasonal collections. I touched on the subject before in my posts on What Fashion Industry Can Learn From The iPad Release and The [...]

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On Private Sales, Gambling and Dangers of Innovation.

Gaming elements became an integral component of many social sites, adding interaction layer and incentifying users to participate – from Foursquare to Farmville on Facebook – social games seems to rule the web these days. The question is what happens when you combine social gaming and e-commerce– isn’t this experience becoming more similar to… gambling? [...]

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Startup Lessons: Making Money vs. Making History.

Let me start with a personal lesson: for the majority of my entrepreneurial life I’ve been focusing on “making history”. My It Things is priding itself in being the first ever user-generated fashion magazine democratizing this highly hierarchical industry, Style Coalition was created to bring together independent fashion publishers and promote better industry standards and [...]

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