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Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder

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Re: Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder

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post #5

Reminds me of (the now defunct) Startup Schwag ( http://www.startupschwag.com/ ). I'm a sucker for stickers and tshirts with a cool company logo so it sounds awesome. I would take a look at what Startup Schwag was doing - if I recall you got a 'goodie bag' each month that had a shirt and some stickers, buttons, pens, etc.

Thanks for the link. We'd check it out.

For now, we're just looking to do a limited-time offer from 25 startups (already have 5+ great startups committed) as a scrappy way to keep on bootstrapping our startup.

Re: Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder

#12

"From the blog: http://bit.ly/startuptees This started as an idea to save money on laundry. We've visited the offices of Dropbox, Twilio, PB Works; even new startup Piazza, and we always accepted free t-shirts because it means more to wear and less to wash. Our ambitious goal: Sell 25 startup tee shirts for $25 each from 25 of our favorite startups. "

Er...we've barely had to wear the same startup tee twice!

Re: Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder

#15
Why does everyone's ecommerce site need a "daily deals" email sign up form now? What works for a coupon site is not likely to work for a T-Shirt site.

Show me some products and there's a slim chance I might buy something.

Show me nothing but a form to REQUEST spam every single day for a product i'm not even sure if I want? Ctrl+W.

Re: Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder

#16
post #5

Reminds me of (the now defunct) Startup Schwag ( http://www.startupschwag.com/ ). I'm a sucker for stickers and tshirts with a cool company logo so it sounds awesome. I would take a look at what Startup Schwag was doing - if I recall you got a 'goodie bag' each month that had a shirt and some stickers, buttons, pens, etc.

Or feel free to email me, I ran StartupSchwag - I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Re: Startup Tee Shirts: Wear the Gear of Your Favorite Startup or Founder

#18

Why does everyone's ecommerce site need a "daily deals" email sign up form now? What works for a coupon site is not likely to work for a T-Shirt site. Show me some products and there's a slim chance I might buy something. Show me nothing but a form to REQUEST spam every single day for a product i'm not even sure if I want? Ctrl+W.

Agreed

What's even worse is the model that asks for additional friend e-mails after you provide yours to get an invite.

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