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Julie Fredrickson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
193 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

But most women carry between six and seven products with them at any given time and own 40.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Cosmetics products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

So if you're buying those products and not finishing them, not only are you wasting a ton of money, but you're also weighing down your purse.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Most women carry makeup with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

And I think we'd all appreciate having a little bit more purse real estate for things that matter more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Not to say that cosmetics don't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Which is actually quite normal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

It's one thing we like to bring up is that men have no idea how acute this problem is because they don't carry purses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Yes, February of 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

No, we closed that in August of 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

So we closed around the time of the launch, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Yeah, I would say that would have been January, February of 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

That gave us then a full year of product development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

Essentially what we did is we did six months of product development to get something that we felt was production ready, fundraised and put it into production once we had the cash to do so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

well yes i have had a successful exit before so i am somewhat of a known quantity my first company was in the affiliate marketing space uh was one of actually the earliest um we focused on so it was called couture it was a publishing network of about 500 independent websites focused on the luxury fashion and beauty space it was acquired by popsugar to help monetize their shopping search engine shop style

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

So I've made some people money in the past.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

It's never been disclosed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

This would have been 2007.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company

So good timing on our part.