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Whitney Smith-Vlaming

@whit5mith

🎩 Chief of Staff 🪄 Helping brands run QC on their global supply chains

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
factoredquality.com/
Joined October 2018
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Prince Ghosh@princeghosh9712 May 2023
A big thank you to @mrsharma + @moizali for the shoutout on last week's Limited Supply Pod 🚀 Missed/defective inventory is a MASSIVE pain-point and bleeding you out as a brand. Don't waste your own time auditing your suppliers, use factoredquality.com/.
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Prince Ghosh@princeghosh9723 Mar 2023
Over the last year Factored Quality (factoredquality.com/) has scaled massively - and today we released FQ 2.0 to keep up 🚀 The 3 biggest things we've heard from customers are:
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Sean Henry
@seanhenry6 Dec 2022
OpenAI's chatGPT is mind-blowing. Within minutes, my user behavior pivoted (from Google). This is probably the most valuable and elegant product launch I've seen. It's incredibly exciting to be a part of this moment in humanity.
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looking forward to diving into this
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Eric Bahn 💛
@ericbahn14 Nov 2022
Founders: Keep your head down and try to avoid the noise of the past few weeks. Keep building your awesome companies, for the long term. It’s an honor to serve true builders like you! 💛
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Austin Rief ☕️
@austin_rief14 Nov 2022
I hate it when I accidentally transfer $8b to my personal account.
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$20/ month to keep verified account
60%Makes sense
20%That’s nuts
20%Never going to happen
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@samdblond29 Mar 2022
A simple tip for selling against competitors: During discovery always ask if they are looking at any other solutions. If yes, who? Before the demo say something like:
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there is a treasure trove of innovative startups in NL and it pains me to see that dutch investors/ VC haven't stepped it up. this article is still relevant a year later- a 🧵 innovationorigins.com/en/inv…
Investments in Dutch start-ups on the rise, but money mainly comes from abroad

Investments in Dutch start-ups on the rise, but money mainly comes from abroad

In the first six months of 2021, Dutch start-ups raised a record amount of 3.1 billion euros in venture capital.

ioplus.nl
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dutch startups have historically raised much less funding compared to their US startup counterparts. knowing this - wouldn't you make a dash to the US to raise more capital that will enable more growth?
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@constantijn14 and @Techleapnl @AdamSciencePark and many others are working to solve this but we must do more. where do we start? it keeps me up at night knowing that we are loosing opportunities
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doesn't matter if you are working to cross that $1M ARR or scaling up to $200M - some solid takeaways. test and learn, test and learn. thanks @braveben @samdblond @_ashleykelly youtube.com/watch?v=BowmKgAN…
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Dynamo Ventures@ThisIsDynamo17 Oct 2022
🌎"Securing supply chains is crucial for global competitiveness and minimizing dependence on foreign nations for important resources." dynamo.vc/blog
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CPG brands - how do you vett your suppliers and manufacturers?
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what software is everyone using to manage their supply chain?
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name some brands with the highest quality standards (non-medical). i'll go first: @fridababy @YETICoolers @patagonia @get_canopy @Atoms #quality #SupplyChain
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For all my Ops wizards - @Atoms is hiring for a Chief of Staff role. 10/10 would recommend working with @sidraqasim and the team linkedin.com/jobs/view/33101…
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Prince Ghosh@princeghosh974 Oct 2022
W/ all these new celeb + creator brands being started - is there a good index of most popular categories? Historically its been apparel/beauty, but now seeing a lot of homegoods, durables, consumables, etc. Any thoughts/data? @_dhruv_1 @mrsharma @RosenZone @therealRoShow
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