UncoverMyStyle is a new startup looking to provide affordable and accessible style advice to fashionistas. Using a web-based platform to communicate with stylists, users will be able to receive outfit recommendations that are tailored to their style. We are looking to speak to fashion bloggers about their take on being the stylist and their willingness [...]
Smarketplaces enables influencers to share their favorite products and product discoveries by creating custom catalogs of handpicked items. The catalogs can be seamlessly added to any blog, are also featured on its destination site (pickie.co), and iPad shopping application – the latter of which drives new traffic back to blogs. Smarketplaces is looking to [...]
Last week’s Fashtech Insight was arguably the best event we’ve hosted. Held at Rocketspace in San Francisco, Fashtech Insight brought together 100+ fashion, apparel, and technology founders, startups, and creatives from all over the Bay Area, including attendees from AKQA, 500Friends, Coffee Table, Gap, Google, Levi’s, Walmart Labs, and Zappos Labs. Attendees came to hear [...]
If you run or own a fashion blog, magazine, forum, website, app, or network, and are looking to monetize your content, look no further! In partnership with Skimlinks, we’re co-hosting an Online Monetization Workshop on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in San Francisco. Hear from Skimlinks CEO and Co-Founder Alicia Navarro and learn the latest in [...]
Hot off the heels of last week’s FashTech Insights event, we’re gearing up for our next event, a workshop on fashion content monetization through affiliate marketing. We’ll cover how bloggers can discover new automated revenue streams, optimize existing revenue programs, and get access to exclusive brand and retailer programs such as J.Crew, Madewell, Net-a-Porter, Ralph [...]
What a time we had at last night’s FashTech Insights event! Everlane, Polyvore, Sneakpeeq and Sugar Inc., all provided an incredible look at how they use data – and how they’re using it to help push fashion forward. But you don’t have to be a startup to push the boundaries, you just need to think [...]
What do you get when you cross the $500 billion dollar fashion industry with the world’s “fastest selling consumer device“, Kinect for XBox 360? Hint: it’s not a game. It’s the future of fashion: a rich, interactive experience in real time. The XBox Kinect is already being used for a myriad of real-life applications. Now, [...]
San Francisco is an amazing city, but I’m coming to understand a unique downside to this area: my proximity to Silicon Valley and constant exposure to the next big thing may have desensitized me to the uphill battles that all startups face. Out here, startups are exciting, everyone has great ideas, and people are generally [...]
Increasingly, businesses are attempting to create experiences not possible online. Not only are they rethinking how a store should function – they’re rethinking what a store is. As digital technology continues to mature, it has reached the stage where it’s transforming the physical world as well as the online – merging the two worlds, [...]
