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Jay Reno

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2019 by Jay Reno · across every show →

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Aug 14, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Reno: No large company has copied Feather's subscription furniture model
“And to this day, no large company has even remotely copied us. Only, only small upstarts, people who saw us and decided to do the same thing as us.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 34:32 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019
Insight
Reno: Founders should invest their time like seed investors placing bets
“You have to be focused on what you're seeding. So you have to be clear and understand what the intention is there. They should be very high risk, but high reward and assume that like a seed investor, for example, you know, only one or two of the 20 will ever e…”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 32:22 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Reno: Feather's initial MVP cost just $2,000 to $3,000 to build
“All in to just build the MVP, I decided that I felt comfortable investing up to like two or 3000 dollars, I can't remember what it was of my own personal money.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 8:29 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019 bullish
Insight
Reno: Furniture buyers actually want the flexibility of subscriptions
“They're not addressing the massive opportunity, which are people who are currently buying furniture, thinking they want to buy furniture, but in fact, what they actually want is the flexibility to be able to subscribe to furniture.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 12:54 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Reno: Feather's MVP used dropshipping and self-delivery to validate demand
“What I did was I put items on the site from a retailer who could ship me things just in time effectively. So when a customer would go on our site, they would place an order for an item or multiple items for their home. And I would then in turn say, okay, great…”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 10:07 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019 positive
Insight
Reno: Furniture subscription MVPs require visual merchandising and aesthetic appeal
“For this to work, you kind of need to have a little bit of merchandising. You need to have a little bit of a visual aesthetic and appeal to see what furniture is with the prices, et cetera.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 7:41 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Reno: Feather raised $3M to $3.5M post-YC
“We raised three, three and a half million dollars of funding from great investors and had tons of support.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 37:29 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Aug 14, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reno: Feather operates its entire logistics stack directly
“Almost all. Yes.”
Jay Reno Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 20:50 Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
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