Robe Curls

“I am out because it's not my space, and it's not my interest, and then secondly, I would like the bigger what and how and everything, and I didn't get enough of that from you.”

“It's the contingency law firms that we're using and working with, and so this becomes an alternative revenue source for us as well, and it just, while one lawsuit fills up, We just file another one, and that fills up with sellers. We file another one. We do ba…”

“500,000 dollars would be put towards Amazon international inventory, which we know for a fact that we would be basically doubling our Amazon current U.S. Revenue with a matter of 10 countries.”

“What we've achieved is off of an initial investment of 500 dollars. We've reinvested profit into perfecting the product, all of that.”

“They gave us the opportunity to continue to expand to 5000 stores, and it was a strategic play to not continue with them at this time. They were doing essentially a consignment model for 5000 stores, which is very typical for Walgreens.”

“I have several companies in my portfolio. They're not competitors today, but could be on their roadmap. So like, I have a thing where I always ask my founders if this is competitive. If they say no, it's cool with me.”

“But this gets you to ten million. This gets you to twenty-five million. This doesn't get you to a billion.”

“We get projections for the entire year, For what they're estimating in terms of volume. So that comes out to about two million dollars in net profit for us for this year. I'm sorry, one million dollars in net profit for us this year, two million in gross. We'r…”

“Over the course of two years, we have sold over a 100,000 units during that time frame.”

“So today we're opening up our pre-seed round. We're raising 500,000 dollars to add fuel to the fire of our profitable business and to help with this target launch.”

“So we launched two years ago, and in those two years, we've been fully bootstrapped. We've done three million in revenue. We are profitable. We have very strong profit margins at 86% direct to consumer.”

“The time to invest is now, before everyone else catches up. Because once all the VCs agree that heatless hair care is the future, the opportunity will have passed.”

“For about six months of last year, we had about 3000 new sellers each week popping up with copycats, knockoffs, counterfeits of our product.”

“We were in Walgreens store two months after we launched. We were successfully it was a 130 store pilot. We were there for six months. We were the number one category seller. Our average units sold per week were six units per door per week, which is three times…”

“We are looking at fifteen million dollars a year net profit from Aveda Salons.”

“When you're pitching a new market, the founder has to be that much better at telling the story. You have to be the spokesperson for your business and the market.”

“And most excitingly, we are launching in Target, 1200 doors in a matter of a couple weeks. You'll see us across the U.S., Starting February 25th of this year.”

“Our cost per unit is under four dollars, and then we retail it for 28 dollars direct to consumer.”