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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

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Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. Company: Stitch Fix.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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The Past (1985-2002). The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.