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To succeed in e-commerce today, you need to look for unserved niches with unique products. Learn how KURU Footwear Founder Bret Rasmussen bootstrapped an e-commerce startup from Utah.
Sraman a Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?
Bret Rasmussen: I was born in Utah, but my parents quickly moved to Indiana. We actually lived a few years in Italy until I was about eight or nine years old. Then we moved to Taiwan and then back to Indiana. I graduated high school in Texas and then I went to college out west here in Utah.
Sramana Mitra: Now, you raised your seed round on an IP-led hypothesis or plan.
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This conversation with Modded Euros Co-founder Sean Dawes from 2019 is a comprehensive discussion on how to bootstrap a niche e-commerce venture with a lean team and effective use of inventory financing. You can listen to the podcast interview here and watch the interview here:
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
Sean Dawes: I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I haven’t gone too far away from my hometown as my company is based out of West Chester, Pennsylvania, which is 20 or 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia.
Sramana Mitra: If you look at the P&Ls of these Infosys, WiPro, Persistence and various companies that have achieved scale in the services universe, how do the components of the P&L and the margins of these companies compare with the kind of company that you are looking to build?
>>>Sramana Mitra: Right, you’ll learn as you go along. But there will be these three buckets, I think, even when you are a $100M or a $1B company. This is going to be the structure of your company. So the question then is, what is the distribution?
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