VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Style never dies: Luxury clothes maker J. Hilburn raises $4M

Re: Style never dies: Luxury clothes maker J. Hilburn raises $4M

Joseph Flaherty — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:18:40 -0000

Thanks for covering stories like this Anthony. I think too many people get caught up in the social media echo chamber and are constantly trying to peg the next Google e.g. the breathless coverage of Facebook and Twitter's every move. Not that these companies are undeserving of coverage, but from a market POV social networking is worth ~$1.5B in revenue/year. By comparison scrapbooking is worth about $3B and there are some interesting businesses in that market (Provocraft and Scrablog) Toys are worth $26B/year and Smith&Tinker will probably snatch a nice piece of that this year, Jewelry is worth ~$60B, but a company like Paragon Lake is rarely discussed. VB does a great job covering companies like those and I hope you guys continue.

Re: Style never dies: Luxury clothes maker J. Hilburn raises $4M

Anthony Ha — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:49:40 -0000

Well put, John.

Re: Style never dies: Luxury clothes maker J. Hilburn raises $4M

John — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:54:57 -0000

Assuming its 7,500 customers average $500 of orders per year. That's $3.75M sales per year.

It's tiny, but that's still $3.75M more revenue than twitter, which has raised 10 gazillions dollars in funding, so far.

Re: Style never dies: Luxury clothes maker J. Hilburn raises $4M

swag — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:52:54 -0000

$4MM for what should be a pretty pathetic volume?