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This seems like advert for 'eBay pages'.

• knowtheory 14y ago
  Except that it mentions several key insights that the founder used to exploit market opportunities. She clearly has solid domain knowledge that allowed her to buy low and sell high, through not just thrift stores (which is labor intensive, but certainly not a new concept), but also identifying people who didn't have her expertise and thus didn't appreciate the value of the goods they were selling. It also sounds like she had a model that allowed her to build an engaged userbase and enlist them to help her build the business. Granted this is all just what one article says, but this is exactly the sort of thing you're supposed to do as a start up of any kind. Sounds like a relevant success story to me.
• prawn 14y ago
  She said that eBay was a terrible place to start a business.
• fizz_and_buzz 14y ago
  "Ms. Amoruso also outgrew eBay, which she said was a terrible platform to start a business. Competitors started flagging Nasty Gal for breaking the site’s rules by, for example, linking to Ms. Amoruso’s Myspace page. Fed up, she decided it was time to start ShopNastyGal.com."
  • paulhauggis 14y ago
    It's not just this. Many users are terrible and will leave you negative feedback based on what they are feeling that day, even if you did everything right. I bend over backwards for my customers and still get negatives. College students seem to be the worst. If they don't get things exactly their way, you get a negative.