How to start a Clothing Company

Jake Nickell Interview

Here’s what I like about the interviews I’ve been doing over the past few weeks; I’m asking people I find interesting questions I want to hear the answers to. I guess it’s a little self-indulgent, but I think it works and hopefully you guys are enjoying the interviews as much as I am. In the [...]

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Are Web Directories still important?

I just watched this video about web directories and thought it was very informative. Directories are what people used before search engines. Yahoo use to just be a web directory, you submitted links to it and if they got accepted they would show up in their search. Today directories hold a lot less value then [...]

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Is free shipping a good idea?

I had this discussion with my buddy David over at SEIBEI. I was thinking about raising my prices to include shipping, mostly so when retailers looked at my site they wouldn’t see that we are selling shirts for $20 and that we charge them more then 50% of the cost for wholesale. Here is what [...]

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Threadless: The Do-First Work Ethic

Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell, co-founders of Threadless, talk about how they transformed a fun side project into a multimillion dollar company.

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