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Great article with a stellar business model. This guy's scheme is literally "give the people what they want!" Need more of this kind of thinking in software. Unfortunately, lock-in techniques will likely prevent it from working in many places it's needed most.
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You know how they say most jobs from from personal leads? That's all it is. "Hey we need someone else for a customer service position - you know anyone?" "Sure, my neighbor's son is looking a job."
"We're going to need about 150 employees at this business. Know anyone personally?" "Yeah, about 70 Orthodox Jews and this one Italian dude who probably won't adhere to their culture. Might let him work from home."
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I was referring to the fact that they mostly hire people that are (a) Jews and (b) Jewish. Jew is a race that I'm aware of. So, it's usually racist and religious discrimination.
> Jew is a race that I'm aware of. What? No. Ashkenazim might be genetically similar, but even there, not a race. And there are also Sephardim. Also Jews from Africa? Definitely not a race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Race
Particularly, this statement: "Genetic studies on Jews show that most Jews worldwide bear a common genetic heritage which originates in the Middle East, and that they bear their strongest resemblance to the peoples of the Fertile Crescent.[58][59][60] The genetic composition of different Jewish groups shows that Jews share a common genetic pool dating back 4,000 years, as a marker of their common ancestral origin."
That Jew/Hebrew isn't a race is a very new claim to me. What do you have to support it?
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"We're going to need about 150 employees at this business. Know anyone personally?" "Yeah, about 70 Orthodox Jews and this one Italian dude who probably won't adhere to their culture. Might let him work from home."
I don't think a company is started by suddenly hiring 150 people.
Anker ( http://www.anker.com/ ) does something very similar to this company -- except, I think, it has a smaller selection of products. Judging from reviews on Amazon, Anker is also doing very well for itself.
"Private Label" manufacture of goods is a fairly large cottage industry. Unfortunately many of the mostly fly by night home based Alibaba arbitrage schemes fail pretty hard. I've certainly purchased these off amazon ebay etc and have found they rarely stand up to the hype. For instance, I recently purchased a WooPower dual 2.4 amp charger off Amazon. Total POS doesnt come anywhere near 2.4 amps per output. I have a s…
Its interesting to think about why this enterprise succeeds and yet Quirky, for example stumbled: this one starts with a known selling product and iterates on it based on market demand, rather than just coming up with cool ideas, perhaps. (I'm actually a fan of Quirky so this isn't really intended as a dis, but one of these two has "nine-figure" (really?) sales, and one doesn't)
IOQ, Quirky is a vanity platform like Print-on-Demand book companies, not a business enabler.
> Before us are rows of cubicles, almost entirely inhabited by bearded, yarmulke-wearing men in crisp white shirts. These are Pikarski's buyers. (About half of C&A Marketing's 150-person staff is Orthodox, though the buyers division is more homogenous. "The buyer that does all the storage products, he's the only guy I let work out of home," Pikarski says. "He's Italian.") Did that bother anyone else?
Now this is a capitalist. This guy is what happens when you make it easy for someone to go make a new-and-improved product.
Now that he's on the news the patent trolls will get to him. Wait and see...
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> Jew is a race that I'm aware of. What? No. Ashkenazim might be genetically similar, but even there, not a race. And there are also Sephardim. Also Jews from Africa? Definitely not a race.
The references here seem to disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Race Particularly, this statement: "Genetic studies on Jews show that most Jews worldwide bear a common genetic heritage which originates in the Middle East, and that they bear their strongest resemblance to the peoples of the Fertile Crescent.[58][59][60] The genetic composition of different Jewish groups shows that Jews share a common ge…
Is Christian a race?
Also, this (PDF warning): https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf.