You may notice the newsletter looks a bit different today.
StartOps has never had an official mission statement. But if I had to coin one, it’d be this:
Help people collide with opportunities they might have missed otherwise.
To date, the newsletter has been focused on colliding people with jobs.
But there are other valuable collisions, too — useful tools, expert knowledge, people to talk to and/or hire, etc.
So starting this week, I'm going to experiment with some different sections to highlight these other kinds of opportunities.*
As always, I’d love your feedback on what’s most useful!
With efficiency,
Charles
* The one thing I'm not planning to focus on is news or news analysis. For that, I suggest Matt Hertz' wonderful newsletter Sent Items, which I suspect most of you read already anyway :)
Today we’re dropping a new podcast: Blue Ocean by StartOps.
In each episode, I’ll talk to a founder or an operator about the problems faced by ecommerce operations leaders, and the tools and techniques they’re using to solve them.
In our inaugural episode, I sit down with Cedrik Hoffmann, the co-founder and CEO of Ameba.
Click the image to watch on Youtube.
We cover a lot of ground, including:
- What buying a slot machine manufacturer and co-founding a brand aggregator taught him about supply chain.
- Where supply chain variance comes from, and how to avoid it.
- The pain of being a mid-market brand stuck between spreadsheets and a full-scale ERP.
Watch or listen to the show here:
You can learn about Ameba on their page on the StartOps Directory.
In this section, we’ll share an introduction to a vetted, high-impact operator who’s available to hire.
Meet Agla Fridjonsdottir!
Agla got her start at Icelandair reducing aircraft weights by optimizing food payloads.
Since then, she’s:
- Built the supply chain team at Bouqs (in the notoriously difficult flowers category)
- Reduced inventory processing times by 80% at Tradesy, reporting directly to the CEO
- Overhauled the domestic transportation strategy at Vestiaire Collective, reducing annual shipping costs by >10%.
Today, she’s available to consult on ops projects big and small. Learn more about Agla here, including how to get in touch.