January 2012
18 posts
Hiring: Chief Merchandising Officer Fab Europe
Fab.com — the world’s leading design website — is actively recruiting for Chief Merchandising Officer for Fab Europe for our upcoming European launch.
Based in Berlin, the Chief Merchandising Officer for Fab Europe will be responsible for setting the design aesthetic and direction for Fab Europe. He/she will work closely with Fab’s Worldwide Chief Creative Officer to...
“The world is serious enough. Why does e-commerce have to be so serious? Fab is...”
– Bradford
Bloomberg Video: Fab Reaching 2 Million Members →
Inc Magazine Video From fabulis to Fab →
“The more successful Fab gets, the more humbling it gets. This company and this...”
– betashop
Fab Celebrates 2 Million Members With Major New...
Any day now Fab will surpass 2 million members. We’ve added more than 400,000 new members in the past 30 days and doubled our membership since November.
We’re so excited about it that we’ve decided to celebrate today with a series of new features and announcements designed to make great design discoverable and attainable by even more people.
1. Introducing Fab Shops. One of...
Knock-Offs Are Bad Design
Here at Fab.com we’re all about good design.
Authenticity is part of our soul.
We guarantee that every product we sell is authentic and that we are authorized to sell it.
We offer our own unique graphic designs on website.
Everything is home grown and original.
That’s what good design is all about.
Being true to designers, creators, and customers.
That’s why I take it as a...
WatchVideo. On December 8, 2011 I gave a talk at HackFwd Build 0.8 re: The Fab Story - from zero to hero in 9 months, 21 things we learned.
Jetlag included.
Fab Launches New Social Shopping App for Facebook...
With 1.8 million members (more than doubling in the last 3 months), Fab is rapidly emerging as the world’s #1 website for design.
Fab.com is also the leading innovator in converging social and commerce.
Today we are upping the ante with our latest innovation: Social Shopping.
Fab’s new Social Shopping features enable Fab members to more easily share the products they are buying with...
Germany Flattery
Greetings from Berlin, where there are no fewer than 5 companies working on Fab-like companies.
Fab Acquires FashionStake
We’re on a mission here at Fab to be the world’s most valuable design resource.
In June 2011 we opened our doors and took big strides towards achieving that goal. 7 months later 1.65 million people have now joined Fab. 350,000 new design enthusiasts have signed up in the last 30 days alone. They’ve purchased 750,000 products from us so far. And, it’s just the start.
We have some core beliefs here...
Fab Mobile - Even More Data - And, BTW, iOS is...
Ryan Kim over at Gigaom just reported on Fab’s mobile usage. He notes:
30% of Fab’s usage is now via Fab’s mobile apps.
Fab’s iPad users spend much more on average per order vs. web, iPhone, and Android users.
Fab’s mobile users convert to purchasers at much higher rates vs. web.
After reading his story I dove in even deeper just now and gleaned the following...
“What is the #1 thing you learned from your parents?”
– One of my recent favorite candidate interview questions.
Vote for Fab (please, you're designed to)
As we captured in our 2011 Timeline, last year was a remarkable year for Fab. 12 months ago we were a different company entirely, 10 months ago we shut it all down, 7 months ago we had re-launched, and today we’re 1.5 million members strong, growing by 300,000 new members every 30 days of late, and processing hundreds of thousands of orders. Whoa.
To be 1000000% transparent, it has been...
Betashop joins RJ Metrics
A few weeks back I wrote about how RJ Metrics was Fab’s secret weapon in our recent $40 million fundraising. In that post I also let on that I was so impressed with the RJ Metrics product that I literally begged their team to let me invest.
Today I’m thrilled to announce that I’m part of a new $1.2M funding for RJ Metrics and I’m joining their Board of Directors. RJ...
