My startup is a fashion magazine. If you look at a monthly fashion magazine's masthead, you'll see a list of 100 people. But I've done everything myself- from sleeping on the floor of the print shop for a week during printing, to photographing runway looks during fashion weeks, to casting, to selling ads, to creating web back ends & JQuery plugins, to art directing & designing fonts, to finding things (clothes/movies/creatives) that are going to be trending in 2 years, to writing and interviewing, everything really..
Currently I'm building individual relationships with hundreds/thousands of top fashion brands - brands most startups would kill to work with.
I had "co-founders" when I started, but they weren't cut out for the brutality and nihilism of the fashion world, and quickly left. It really is a different world, of wealthy old-world people with no commonality with the middle-class. Some of the major luxe fashion brands still avoids the Internet. I don't know of any successful fashion-tech startup.
The whole thing is a fun experience doing it myself... some tasks take longer because of the work involved, but some are quicker because you directly make decisions yourself.
See:
http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_6 (with Helena Christensen)
http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_5 (with Cindy Crawford)
http://www.futureclaw.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureClaw
Currently I'm building individual relationships with hundreds/thousands of top fashion brands - brands most startups would kill to work with.
I had "co-founders" when I started, but they weren't cut out for the brutality and nihilism of the fashion world, and quickly left. It really is a different world, of wealthy old-world people with no commonality with the middle-class. Some of the major luxe fashion brands still avoids the Internet. I don't know of any successful fashion-tech startup.
The whole thing is a fun experience doing it myself... some tasks take longer because of the work involved, but some are quicker because you directly make decisions yourself.
See:
http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_6 (with Helena Christensen)
http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_5 (with Cindy Crawford)
http://www.futureclaw.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureClaw