A team of Nike investigators began looking into the website “Get-Supplied.com” which was reportedly selling counterfeit Nike products. Source: Online store accused of selling counterfeit Nike shoes My guy Tayib with Housakicks hit me this morning with the news of Supplied’s demise. If you’ve clicked through and read this post it details the online store’s…
I usually don’t say anything about internet memes, but I’m seeing too many of my basketball family sharing this silly ass Steph Curry meme about him not signing with Nike because of a bible verse… Stop sharing that shit, it’s fake. Steph wore Nike the first four years of his career. He had a freaking…
My man Tayib came with another question about the sneaker biz and it’s a tough one to deal with. Check out this video on his page. While I don’t go into detail about early kicks I do drop a couple of stories that explain how some things go down in the sneaker world. This one…
Originally recorded by Tayib Salami of Housakicks during a Google Hangout Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZPK… Tayib has been working on the idea for a series of interviews about the sneaker industry. I helped Tayib develop his website: http://www.housakicks.com after he had paid several developers and gotten no where. He knew I had been involved in sneakers for…
Tayib from Housakicks (www.housakicks.com) hit me up to do a Google Hangout to discuss my thoughts on entering the sneaker resell game. My thoughts are about how the game has changed with Nike’s decision to increase the cost of footwear. It’s a good discussion and has led to Tayib looking to get more answers. Check…
The subtitle here should be, “without even trying.” In the sneaker world for the last few years Nike has dominated the Christmas season. They have consistently released highly coveted kicks the day after Christmas, while dominating the days before Christmas with the release of the Air Jordan 11 Retro. Those of us who check for…
This is a quick episode that kind of deviates from the regular theme of the show, but I had to do this. I could have discussed the problems with running an online shop, but I was so irritated by the fact that another customer tried to get over that I just had to talk about…
This is quite possibly the best presentation on the market we live in as sneaker people I’ve ever seen. This presentation is for any person who has ever questioned how I left being a college professor to pursue my love of footwear as my way of earning a living, this will answer all of your…
It’s the question we got asked at The White House, Northside Festival and during our #AsktheSource Twitter Chat. “Is small-batch manufacturing a viable option in the United States? The answer is YES!! We’ve hunted down 10 Small Batch Factories Source: 10 American Small Batch Manufacturers | Maker’s Row Blog I don’t have anything to add…
Source: The Staple Manifesto for the Designer, Entrepreneur, & Fashion Aficionado | Maker’s Row Blog Ran across this on Maker’s Row and knew I had to share this post. If you are looking at launching a brand, this is one of the better interviews I’ve seen. While the information here will be hard to attain…
Source: Barack Obama steps into sneaker war – Doug Palmer – POLITICO A few weeks ago my play mom called me and asked what I thought about the TPP Trans Pacific Partnership that was being promoted by President Obama. I told her in pretty simple terms, I don’t think about it because I attempt to…
What Nike has done has been written about in books like Just Do It by Donald Katz and Swoosh: Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There, The by J.B. Strasser, which is a book that has insider info on the start of the company. Strasser’s husband was a former insider who went…
We launched the OpenFrame Kickstarter campaign almost two years ago and received an overwhelming response. We crushed our $40,000 funding goal and by the end of the campaign we raised over $68,000. We were pumped. Source: How I Successfully Overfunded My Kickstarter Goal by $28,000 | Maker’s Row Blog I absolutely had to share this…
Okay, my attempt at an elegant title is killed immediately by the word cockroaches. I was going for an allusion to Steinbeck just to kind of be a little literary, lol. Anyway, as usual my Friday nights are not filled with what you call coolness. Since I’m a dad we very rarely get out of…
This was originally posted in 2011 to the site and is a little dated but is still very relevant. I eventually captured all of these points and place them into One Hour To Wealth: Your Great Idea is Valuable…Get Up and Write It Down!Excuse the baggy gym shorts, lol. I was invited by Dr. Frances Fabian…
