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A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: It’s important to figure out why it didn’t validate. What was your analysis of why the company failed? Rafael Ortiz: In the end, the reason was margins were so tight for those retailers. They were in no position to issue dynamic pricing for their products. At that time, the whole sales channel was
A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Could you describe the process of figuring out what you wanted to eventually build a startup on? What was the process of coming up with that problem? Rafael Ortiz: What we did is counter to what a lot of people advise. A lot of people advise finding the problem and doing something that
A Journey into Personalized Luxury Fashion: Editorialist YX CEO Rafael Ortiz (Part 1)
As you know, I have a passion for personalized luxury fashion and ventured into that market early on in 1999 when the market wasn’t quite ready for it yet. Rafael is building a wonderful luxury fashion venture with unique personalization details. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Not all of e-commerce has the mobile characteristic. For example, if I want to do fashion shopping, I am absolutely not interested in doing it on my mobile. I want it on my cinema display. I want to have as much information as possible.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Where in the grand spectrum of possibilities, in which markets, which segments do you see venture-scale brand opportunities in? Tod Francis: I hate to dodge this question, but I think it’s actually hard to sit here and say this category and not that category because it’s about how the entrepreneur sees the execution
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: One of the things that I’d like to point out is we work with people at a very early stage. It’s not always viable to start with your own product. This is where the parallel with the department retail business comes in. If you look at the P&L’s of department stores like Macy’s
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures (Part 1)
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Tod Francis was recorded in September 2014. Tod Francis, Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, starts with a discussion on the history of retail, all the way from shoe stores, to departmental stores, and back
Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Katie had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. More stories like this can be found in my Bootstrapping With A Paycheck book.
