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Retail Revolution: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Harvard Business Review

While GILT and its rivals sell across verticals (apparel, home, travel, kids, local), OKL deals in just one big one: home. Like Bag Borrow or Steal (another rental player), RTR enables time-sharing of merchandise. In GILT's wake, there followed a host of competitors (RueLaLa, Ideeli). Talk about the democratization of high fashion.

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When a Mid-Career Move Falls Flat: The Story of Stripedshirt

Harvard Business Review

” So in 2010, after a successful 18-year-career in high-tech PR, she quit her job to launch Stripedshirt , a company selling fashionable, feminine shirts in team colors. The first was about inventory, which is especially hard in apparel. She’d dutifully don a Red Sox jersey, but she’d quietly seethe. What went wrong?

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