Threadless的創業源起

Threadless: From Clicks to Bricks: "The story of Chicago's Threadless begins, appropriately, with a T-shirt contest. In 2000, Nickell, then a 20-year-old studying multimedia and design at Illinois Institute of Art, and Jacob De Hart, 19, an engineering student at Purdue University, met when they entered an online T-shirt design competition. Nickell won, and the pair began exchanging e-mails. In 2001, after working together online on a couple of projects, the duo decided to start their own T-shirt contest and company. They scraped together $1,000 and launched Skinny Corp., parent of Threadless.com. The concept was simple: People would submit T-shirt designs online, visitors would vote for their favorite, and the winner would be printed in limited-edition runs. But the duo kept their day jobs in advertising. Says Nickell: 'We had no idea what it would become.'"

Business 2.0 Magazine的一篇文章，稱讚Threadless的母公司史金尼（SkinnyCorp），說它是真正擅長於讓顧客當家作主的新創企業。史金尼是網路設計家雅各‧戴哈特（Jacob Dehart）和傑克‧尼克爾（Jake Nickell）2000年設立的。戴哈特和尼克爾推出T恤商店Threadless和一系列類似的網站，例如Naked & Angry徵求領帶的圖案設計；15 Megs of Fame是線上音樂商店；Extra Tasty讓顧客給飲料配方打分數。

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