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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

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The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks. Very clever. Ever heard of GoPro?

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

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They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. It wasn’t helped by the fact that marketers seem fond of giving their personas silly names, such as “Social Butterfly Brenda” or “Value Hunter Valerie,” that attempt to collapse nuanced research into a single concept.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

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One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. The only problem was that the pesky stock market kept declining and that new investor pulled out. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

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I remember sitting down in the balcony of my apartment and looking into the night, taking stock of my life so far. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. Name (required).

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). X-height refers to the height of the lower case “x” in a typeface. Journal of Design Communication , No.