October 2011
18 posts
“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.”
– Steve Jobs
Fab.com Welcomes New Execs: COO from Etsy, CFO...
We’re growing really fast at Fab.com – adding 200,000 new members the past 30 days alone, and processing ten thousand plus orders per week. Whoa.
With great growth, comes great opportunity and responsibility. We’re ramping up our operations so that we can deliver a world-class customer experience that our members will simply LOVE.
We’re literally investing millions of dollars into upgrading...
“Be in the weeds. It’s the details in the fabric that make the design work.”
– betatshop
Email me please
Hi. I’m Jason Goldberg, founder and CEO of Fab.com.
If you ever have a question, comment, concern, feedback, or suggestion for Fab.com, I highly encourage you to email me at jg@fab.com. I read everything and I promise to do my best to respond.
We’re serious about building the best customer service experience on the planet. We believe that design should be inspiring, approachable,...
This is what happens when your app gets featured...
Over the past 72 hours Fab.com was the #4 most featured app in the Apple iTunes App store, of all apps.
We didn’t do anything to make that happen, except build a pretty cool app, get mostly rave reviews, and a high velocity of downloads.
Here’s the impact, according to the iTunes downloads chart:
Here’s a link to try out the Fab.com app yourself.
“Be awesome. But be humbly awesome.”
– betashop
Recruit away our team. I dare you. Heck, I...
As Fab.com has been growing like crazy, recruiters have invariably come calling trying to recruit away key team members.
Thanks for the flattery.
I encourage anyone and everyone to please come and try to recruit away our Fab.com team members. I dare you. Heck, I encourage you.
A roster of our team members can be found here. We update that list twice per month with new members of the team. Most...
“Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg says his online design business couldn’t...”
– Good times coming back to the city: Tech, real estate, education & tourism lead way out of recession
21 things we're learning at Fab.com
Here are the slides from our Fab.com all-company meeting today.
Sharing, as per lesson #14.
Enjoy.
Feedback appreciated.
21 things we’re learning at Fab.com - October 2011
Presentation Transcript:
21 Things We’reLearning At Fab.com 10-12-11
130 Days Ago Fab.com Didn’t Even Exist.
Now, We’ve Got 750,000 Members, 3M Visits/ Month, $100K sales days.
It’s Humbling.
It’s Exciting.
...
“Fab’s email is more than an advertisement of its flash sales, which include...”
– Commerce as content, shopping through art – SplatF
Fab.com Goes Mobile on iPhone, iPad and Android
On June 9, 2011 Fab.com opened our doors.
Today, 122 days later:
We’re selling more than $100,000 worth of design products per day.
We’re seeing 3M+ monthly visits to our website.
We’ve seen our membership swell to more than 750,000 people, half of whom have come through member-to-member viral share links.
We’ve established Fab.com as the #1 place to discover daily...
“he changed reality”
– Obituary: Steve Jobs | The Economist
Fab.com Launches 2nd Pop-Up Shop, The PopTee...
We just launched the 2nd Fab.com Pop-Up Shop: The PopTee Pop-Up.
Fab.com Pop-Up Shops differ from our normal eclectic mix of design flash sales in that the Pop-Up Shops are carefully curated collections around a specific theme, and they last a bit longer than our typical 3 day sales.
Fab.com investor Ashton Kutcher curated this collection of original, exclusive T-shirt designs from Milton...
“You don’t have to own an art studio to show you know great design. Wear a...”
– Ashton Kutcher 