jtmarino

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   The Occult History Behind NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory(supercluster.com)

   2 points by jtmarino 6y ago|0 comments
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   by jtmarino 8y ago

   Thank you! But I'm afraid/embarrassed we were part of the reason they exist. It's very frustrating because so many people fall for the reviewers as "experts". I remember when the first of them, a blogger, called me
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   by jtmarino 8y ago

   Thx! We were definitely a special circumstance. We found a tiny mom & pop manufacturer who had the equipment and had capacity. We negotiated 30 net terms (this was hard to get) allowing us to fund with negative working capital... custom
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   by jtmarino 8y ago

   Not all disruption is purely technical. In the mattress industry the disruption is more around process. Direct to consumer, service, product iteration with direct customer feedback, more vertical. There are technical innovations (foam chemi
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   by jtmarino 8y ago

   Hey there, JT, Co-founder of Tuft & Needle. To clarify, Daehee and I started with $6k in 2012 and have raised no investments to date. We took a loan in 2016 of $500k for our SF retail store (that year our revenues were around $40mm) but
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   by jtmarino 8y ago

   Hey this is JT, Tuft & Needle co-founder. Firstly, thanks for all your support and please send any feedback or thoughts any time. I'm at jt@tn.com. Since we started Tuft & needle in 2012, we've been bootstrapped and have b