wiwillia

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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   It was a sad sad day
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   I loved those blog posts, that's a great idea. One of the craziest things we've learned is that dark shirts outperform light shirts by 2:1.
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   Awesome, would love to hear your thoughts - shoot me an email if you want to chat sometime!
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   Yep - campaigns can run as little as 3 days or as long as 30 days, unfortunately that's a hard limitation due to the amount of time we can hold a charge authorization on a credit card (we also don't want buyers waiting TOO long for their pr
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   We actually hit profitability in November and have maintained that since! Might not have made that clear enough. Not all that money goes to us - in December alone we paid out over $90,000 to campaign organizers.
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   Hey guys - I replied above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5173296 ) but the short story is that until quite recently we didn't have enough traffic to really help organizers sell their tees, and didn't want to imply that we did by off
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   Thank you! We work with a couple awesome screen printers and a fulfillment house on the East Coast (New Hampshire and Rhode Island).
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   My fault - I stand corrected. However I do believe that screen printing is still the leading printing technique for both quality and cost. Almost all tees sold in retail are screen printed.
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   by wiwillia 14y ago

   The initial thought behind it was we didn't want to disappoint organizers (campaign creators) by implying we had a market that was going to buy their design. We also didn't have that many cool campaigns up and running at any one time, and
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Hi Rex! As some other comments have pointed out, we don't actually have any significant discovery featured right now - so a large % of hitting your goal is your community! That's something we hope to change in the near future though. Alway
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    We don't offer those publicly yet, but we can set that up for you on the backend - shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    That would be the case with us - we have raised a seed round but it was from a local angel (Bill Cesare) who joined the team full-time and is now our COO.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    We grew a little bit in January but didn't maintain the 40% growth we had in Dec. We were warned that January is a tough month for retail, so hopefully that's the case. I'll do a follow up post in a few months if people are interested.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Thanks and good luck with OpenRent!
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    For sure - companies like Spreadshirt and CafePress use digital printing as opposed to screen printing in order to avoid the heavy upfront costs of screen printing. As soon as you print over 10 t-shirts screen printing becomes both lower co
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Sorry about that I should have clarified - by profit I meant money after we'd paid all our costs on the order (production, shipping, etc.) but not after we'd paid for ourselves or our office space.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Thanks! We actually offer free design help, shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com and I'll get you set up.
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    Our path to $1M in sales(wiwillia.com)

    223 points by wiwillia 14y ago|61 comments
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    I agree re: inventing rewards just for Kickstarter. Kickstarter should automate the production & fulfillment of those basic items (tees, stickers, posters, etc.) so the buyer never has to worry about the production and logistics. I've
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    This is a great example of why Kickstarter should automate the production/fulfillment of these basic, common rewards. Too many organizers of Kickstarter projects list t-shirts, stickers, etc. in the rewards without even bothering to price
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Interesting idea! Maybe we can put together a blog series with trends/stats on what sells and what doesn't.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Thanks for letting me know - should be all set now
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Absolutely, we're currently doing mugs for TWiT (www.teespring.com/twitmugs) and our plan is to branch out to other items - we just want to make sure we can deliver an amazing experience in each product category before we expand to the next
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    We only use high quality screen printing, no digital printing or DTG printing here. The great thing about using a crowdfunding model for apparel is you don't have to compromise of quality or price - you can have the best of both worlds.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Thanks for the heads up - should be fixed now!
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Thanks Daniel! The 12plus tee is still one of our favorites.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Hi from Teespring! This is awesome - if anyone has any questions we're always happy to talk, I'll keep an eye on this thread and you can also reach us by email at walker (at) teespring (dot) com.
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Just noticed this post got buried again... not really sure why but I was hoping someone could tell me?
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    Just wanted to add that I resubmitted this because my post yesterday was buried for a controversial title - reworked it and submitted for all those interested in watching Browserling progress! Signed, a happy customer (Teespring.com)
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    by wiwillia 14y ago

    I should clarify that I posted this, not Browserling. I'm just a happy customer. I put YC Reject in the title because I thought it would be interesting to explore the companies who didn't make it into YC, but have still grown into successe