This story involves a $4,500 video that upended a century-old industry and knocked billions off a household name. A small startup, armed with sarcasm and a box of razors, managed to embarrass one of ...
For many yearsProcter & Gamble's Gillette brand had a pretty good deal. It, along with rivalEnergizer Holding's Schick brand, were in an escalating war selling fancy, expensive razor blades. By ...
The way he saw it, his five-year-old Dollar Shave Club was only getting started. When he launched it in 2012, the razor market was dominated by Gillette, which claimed 72 percent of the U.S. market ...
Dollar Shave Club is piling up investor’s dollars. Less than nine months after it raised a $50 million investment round, the Venice online razor subscription business has just raised $75 million more ...
Dollar Shave Club of Santa Monica has raised an additional $15.7 million in a financing round and may be looking for more. The financing came from an insider and was on top of the $75 million Series D ...
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There may be an app for that — but, now, there’s a box for that, too. The era of the subscription box launched several years ago and it shows no sign of slowing down, as the trend continues to capture ...
A federal judge in Delaware on Tuesday refused to cut short the Gillette Company’s patent-infringement lawsuit against online rival Dollar Shave Club, leaving the case on schedule for a jury trial ...
Michael Dubin occasionally allowed himself to envision the moment when everything paid off. He’d be ushered into a grand ceremony, where some conglomerate, eager to own his massively successful ...