Reading the name, I immediately thought of Poutine. What else was the name a play on, aside from 'Boutique'?
Boutique + magazine.
Show HN: Boutine - From Goldman Sachs to Women's Fashion
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#12Adam here - one of the co-founders. I'm happy to answer any questions that any one has!
What was your role at Goldman? IB Analyst? Ops? Did that experience help you with starting this business? Did you have programming/web design skills beforehand or did you join up with a technical co-founder? How did you guys meet? Thanks
Why is it important that the founder is from Goldman Sachs?
I'm especially curious because GS is mentioned in the title of the post, which suggests it must be important to the poster and perhaps relevant to HNers.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're actually working on tools for collection templates right now - not sure about an exact release date yet. The svpply idea is interesting. We hadn't considered that! Thank you for the suggestion.
Thanks for the reply - those would both be really helpful! Actually another question -- my boyfriend ( http://www.lastplacefootwear.com ) is currently trying to get a feel for what designs of his people are into before he sets out to spend money on production. Right now we're just building a voting-type system into his site, but is there any likelihood that your platform could assist in helping people determine marke…
We're still in the early stages of product development, and all of our designers are hand picked. So we work with the designers we do have on board to give them insight in to how people are using the platform (what people are looking at, what people are sharing, etc...)
Outside of that, we don't have plans to expand to offer those tools to third parties.
Re: Show HN: Boutine - From Goldman Sachs to Women's Fashion
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was your role at Goldman? IB Analyst? Ops? Did that experience help you with starting this business? Did you have programming/web design skills beforehand or did you join up with a technical co-founder? How did you guys meet? Thanks
Why is it important that the founder is from Goldman Sachs? I'm especially curious because GS is mentioned in the title of the post, which suggests it must be important to the poster and perhaps relevant to HNers.
When we talk to people about the company, the finance to women's fashion part of the story always generates a lot of questions. If other people here are in a similar spot (thinking about making a big industry change for their startup) I wanted to make that known in case they have questions as well.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was your role at Goldman? IB Analyst? Ops? Did that experience help you with starting this business? Did you have programming/web design skills beforehand or did you join up with a technical co-founder? How did you guys meet? Thanks
The following is from Pramod (CEO/other co-founder, since he can't comment for some reason...) Yeah, I was an IB analyst for 2 years. After that switched over to the investing side spending a few years focusing on consumer internet and software companies. Both of these experiences definitely helped me with starting a business. You come across so many different entrepreneurs and business models that you get a good fee…
Thanks for the reply. Its great to know that networking and meeting developers at meet ups can lead to partnerships. I will be looking out for these events in my area. I'm working as a IB analyst at the moment, so I'm always a bit worried about meeting the tech side. Thanks!
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#16Are product reviews on the roadmap somewhere? I'm in your target demographic (I think), in that I'm female and regularly buy stuff on Etsy and Gilt/MyHabit. However, I think there's a huge barrier to buying from you right now. Namely, there's no brand recognition, so I can't base judgments off that, and I have no secondary way (like product/boutique reviews) to gauge quality.
Re: Show HN: Boutine - From Goldman Sachs to Women's Fashion
#17Are product reviews on the roadmap somewhere? I'm in your target demographic (I think), in that I'm female and regularly buy stuff on Etsy and Gilt/MyHabit. However, I think there's a huge barrier to buying from you right now. Namely, there's no brand recognition, so I can't base judgments off that, and I have no secondary way (like product/boutique reviews) to gauge quality.
That's definitely in the roadmap for the near future. Would you mind discussing a bit more over email? My email is adam@boutine.com
Thanks!
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#18Are product reviews on the roadmap somewhere? I'm in your target demographic (I think), in that I'm female and regularly buy stuff on Etsy and Gilt/MyHabit. However, I think there's a huge barrier to buying from you right now. Namely, there's no brand recognition, so I can't base judgments off that, and I have no secondary way (like product/boutique reviews) to gauge quality.
This site also looks like it was made by a couple of men. Specifically, the current layout/content, with the exception of the inventory itself, looks like it could be recycled for any number of online stores. There's nothing on the site that screams "we love fashion", and you might as well be selling electronics.
Maybe if you had some featured pieces with an explanation of how they fit into current trends, e.g. "Color blocking is really hot right now, so check out these shoes and dresses.", you'd more effectively create a fashion-specific brand.
Another thing you could do is, for each designer, show any press they've received right out of the gate. You say your designers have been featured in Elle etc, but I have no idea which designers they are.
Re: Show HN: Boutine - From Goldman Sachs to Women's Fashion
#19Reading the name, I immediately thought of Poutine. What else was the name a play on, aside from 'Boutique'?
I had to read it twice to not see Poutine.
Looks pretty cool, out of sheer curiosity though, what is the female/male ratio in at this startup? Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder what more women in tech/startups would create. This seems like an ingenious use of social+fashion to me.
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#20Too bad http://www.styleowner.com launched like 1.5 years ago.