October 2012
13 posts
Hurricane Sandy & Fab. Wednesday October 31, 2012.
Here’s a short update on Fab and Hurricane Sandy, as of 4pm on October 31, 2012.
Fab’s offices in the West Village remain closed due to no electricity. It looks like it will likely be until Monday at earliest before power is restored.
Fab’s warehouses in New Jersey remain closed due to no electricity. It looks like it will likely be until Monday before power is restored to...
Hurricane Sandy & Fab. Tuesday October 30, 2012.
Here’s a short update on Hurricane Sandy & Fab as of 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday October 30, 2012.
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Fab HQ. Fab’s headquarters are in the West Village of New York City, at 95 Morton Street. Our offices are 1 block from the Hudson river and our street and building were impacted by the storm. Our office is currently without power and it is closed until further notice. As our...
Data: Fab Mobile Sales By Day & By Time Of Day
We’re rapidly establishing Fab as the world’s first truly mobile-first physical goods retailer. The past few weekends more than 40% of Fab’s sales have come from mobile.
Soon, we expect full days where mobile is more than 50% of our sales.
As we brace ourselves for hurricane Sandy here in New York City, what better to do than dig into some more numbers on how Fab’s...
butt
Jared Cluff and I always say that online advertising is all about finding a gap and exploiting that gap until others figure it out, and then the gap closes up, so you move on to finding another gap.
A few months ago we figured out that men’s underwear display ads convert really well on Facebook. So, Fab ran a ton of butt ads.
Butt, it looks like that gap is closing up now.
Mobile First
We started thinking about Fab as a mobile-first company about 7 months ago. At the time we were seeing about 20% of our daily sales coming from Fab’s mobile apps. We envisioned a day in the not too distant future when more than half of Fab’s sales came from mobile.
2 weeks ago we launched Fab’s all new mobile apps and they have zoomed to the top of the download charts.
And,...
Some advice from Jeff Bezos →
I love this.
[Bezos] said that people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.
He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a...
This Mobile Stuff Is Legit: Fab Mobile Is 15% of...
I’ve written before about how mobile now amounts to around 1/3 of all sales for Fab in the U.S.
We just launched our Fab mobile apps (iPhone & iPad) in Europe a few days ago and we’re already seeing a similar pattern. After 5 days, mobile is already amounting to more than 15% of Fab’s sales in Europe. And, that’s iOS only. We’ll launch Fab Android in Europe in...
“For most Internet companies, mobile is synonymous with the future. For Fab,...”
– Fab Revamps Mobile Shops Ahead of Holidays - NYTimes.com
Introducing the Completely Re-Imagined Fab Mobile...
Introducing the completely re-imagined Fab mobile apps for iPhone & iPad.
We just reinvented mobile shopping. Again. Again.
We first introduced Fab’s mobile apps on October 15, 2011. Nearly 1 year later, those apps now contribute 33% of Fab’s daily visits and 33% of Fab’s daily sales.
That’s not good enough. We envision a day in the near future when mobile shopping amounts to more than...
Fab Ships Faster - our number one initiative
We launched Fab on June 9, 2011 with a simple purpose: To help people better their lives with design.
16 months later, people have ordered 2.4 million everyday design products from Fab. That is equivalent to 4 orders per minute. And, today, more than 7.5 million people in 26 countries now turn to Fab to discover everyday design products at great prices, to connect with the world’s most...
90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology...
On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”
It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages.
This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I...
