National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

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One great thing about being next to Duke University is that we get to sit in on a lot of national and international conferences about topics relevant to Shoeboxed. Today, I am sitting in on a conference about intellectual property and ecommerce, two things we are obviously interested in over here.

Conference website.
The people involved in [...]

Well, we’ve never been shy about our obsession with Duke University. Most of us are Duke graduates, and some of us are current students there. So it made a lot of sense that when we wanted to get some photos taken of the team that we turned to Duke students. I mean, it was without [...]

First of all, I just wanted to say Happy New Year, as this is our first entry of 2008!

In the first few days of this year, lots of people in the U.S. will be focusing their attention to Iowa, watching with great interest what will happen in Thursday’s caucuses. But today, I’m thinking more about [...]

Over here at Shoeboxed, we’ve always been dedicated to the personal approach. We talk with users face-to-face, over the phone, and via e-mail everyday. We recognize how important it is to give you whatever help you need to get the most out of our service.
For a while there, all the calls that came into Shoeboxed [...]

Being a college student, it’s hard for me to know what’s “in” outside of the campus. How do I know that those sweet pink striped dress shirts I bought in New York City over the summer are still the go-to Friday night apparel? I guess I wouldn’t find out until a trend-setter on campus, who [...]

Shoeboxed is going green! If you aren’t convinced yet, check out my video. Being environmentally-conscious is a high priority for the entire team. We’ve made a lot of changes to our work environment and our lifestyles as we embark on our long mission to be a sustainable start-up company. Here are some of the [...]

This summer in Berlin, we worked all the time. Days would go by when I didn’t leave our apartment/office. I usually worked straight from 11 a.m. to 4 a.m. Those precious hours of sleep were spent on an IKEA cot. Needless to say, I was tired for most of the summer.
Now with some pesky classes [...]

When Taylor was convincing me to join the Shoeboxed team back in February, he talked about changing online shopping, about improving online security, and about making people think differently about how they can use the Internet.
Bold statements, for sure, especially when made in a college dorm room. But Taylor has had a really detailed plan [...]

Shoeboxed.com has launched! It’s a great day for everyone on the Shoeboxed team, and for everyone who is ready to make their life easier.
From day one we’ve said, “there’s a better way”, and today you will have the chance to experience it. Nobody likes to spend countless hours organizing their financial information. It’s about [...]

Last week we were really excited about being in Zitty magazine in Berlin. But Shoeboxed is moving up in the world. Not only have we been featured in another magazine, but now we are on the cover! Towerview magazine, a publication put out by the Duke student newspaper, has identified us as one of the [...]

Wednesday was an exciting day for us, as Zitty Magazine, a publication focusing on the city of Berlin, featured the Shoeboxed team in its latest edition. They don’t have the article up online, but you can read the German version or our English version here.
Once we confirmed that we had made it in to this [...]

Earlier today I had the opportunity to read a particularly insightful interview with Richard Brodhead, President of Duke University. It originally aired on June 16th on China Radio International (CRI), China’s only worldwide radio station.[link] The interview was conducted by Xing Zong, a fourth year Ph.D. student at Duke University. He had [...]

Consumers have always been hesitant to buy clothes online that they can’t try on or see in person. But in recent months, online apparel sales have continued to grow at a rapid rate — outpacing even the online computer and software industries.
This isn’t all that surprising. I certainly buy more things online than I did [...]

We’ve all headed to our respective homes for a couple weeks before making the big move to Berlin. Taylor is on car #3 and continues to make tracks across the country on his trans-American road trip. The stories are fantastic, and the pictures are even better.

At this point, we’re just excited to [...]

School’s out, the shoeboxed team continues to grow, and the we’ve got a new logo. We’re making some serious progress.
After a rough week of final projects, papers, and exams, the team has bounced back and is working around the clock to make shoeboxed.com bigger and better. In the past, we’ve always had schoolwork and [...]