Top stories published by A Founder’s Journey in July of 2016

Homepage

Open in app

A Founder’s Journey

Top Stories published by A Founder’s Journey in July of 2016

All

2016

July

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 1, 2016

Day 43: My 5-year wedding anniversary

One of my favorite startup bloggers is Brad Feld. I started following his blog 3 years ago after meeting him at a Foundry event at the CES conference in Vegas (his Venture Capital firm is Foundry Group). He was a big inspiration for me starting to blog my own…

3 responses

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 7, 2016

Day 46: Daunting memories of the retail business

The following is a guest post by my co-founder, Kabir

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 5, 2016

Day 44: A mistake with a silver lining

Getting our samples last Thursday was an exciting moment for us. After wearing them around a bit and giving some of the details more thought, we’re going to tweak a few things including the back pocket location (it’s too low), the thread color (we want to have…

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 11, 2016

Day 48: Road trip out west

I’ve decided to spend the month of September and first half of October on the west coast. Over this period I have three wedding related events on three different weekends in Seattle, California, and Nevada, and instead of flying back and forth, Sharlene and I are just gonna spend 6…

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 19, 2016

Day 54: A rethink on fulfillment

We originally planned to outsource fulfillment to a warehouse in LA that we visited and liked. We figured it’d be logistically easier and save us time. I didn’t give much thought to it again until recently. Now I’ve changed my mind and want to do fulfillment ourselves…

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 12, 2016

Day 49: Picking new fabric and receiving our sample shank

We got a bunch of sample headers the last few days. Today we spent some time looking at each and narrowing them down to three fabrics we’re going to make samples out of. The main selection criteria were: no minimum requirements on…

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 8, 2016

Day 47: American denim mills

We reached out to two of the premium denim mills in the States — Cone Denim and Denim NA. Cone is the better known one as it’s been around since 1891. They are based in North Carolina and used by many of the top premium denim brands. Denim NA has been around for less than 20…

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 25, 2016

Day 58: Hitting our sprint

We’ve kicked it into overdrive as we approach our launch date of 8/8. This past weekend Mac spent much of his time working on edits to our video based on feedback from a few friends we sent initial versions to. He’s also spending a few extra hours filming some scenes we may want to…

1 response

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 13, 2016

Day 50: A new timeline

As you can see from the screenshot above, around day 15, about 2 months ago, I created a placeholder for day 50…

Nihar Singhal in A Founder’s Journey

Jul 28, 2016

Day 61: Building a successful company takes time

Yesterday the startup I previously worked for, SeatGeek, announced a landmark deal with Major League Soccer. The deal will make SeatGeek the official ticketing partner for the burgeoning league. At the heart of the deal, SeatGeek will bring…

June 2016

August 2016

These were the top 10 stories published by A Founder’s Journey in July of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for July of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

About

A Founder’s Journey

Building a company from day 1: an in-depth look at launching a startup

More information