Warby Parker donates its eyeglasses in 24 countries around the world (5% are donated in the U.S.).
Some examples of business built by Wharton students include Warby Parker, Baby.com.br, Milo and Invite Media.
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Companies like Warby Parker now have pop-up stores in demo-targeted locales like The Standard Hotel in New York.
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Warby Parker responds to support questions via YouTube videos, with each video receiving from hundreds to thousands of views.
Since launching in February, Warby Parker has been profitable since day one and donated over 20, 000 eyeglasses.
With six new showrooms opened just last year, keep your eyes peeled for a Warby Parker appearing near you.
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The New York Times says Google is negotiating with the trendy online eyeglass seller Warby Parker to design frames.
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The company was co-founded by Jeff Raider, a Wharton Business School grad, who is one of the forces behind Warby Parker.
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The firm was an early investor in Warby Parker and helped the company put together its most recent round of financing.
Three of Warby Parker's founders worked at investment banks or private-equity firms.
The favorite eyeglass frames among Warby Parker office co-workers is the Preston.
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If you have a laidback, informal brand voice, like Warby Parker, you might be able to effectively make a joke about it.
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Basic stuff to those who design glasses for a living: maybe Google should have called Warby Parker earlier on in the development process?
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An example of this is eyeglass company and Forerunner investment Warby Parker, which is primarily an online store but has some retail presence.
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In addition to Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare, Spark has invested in companies such as Gdgt, Warby Parker, RunKeeper and OMGPOP, which was acquired by Zynga.
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Just as Warby Parker stylishly disrupted the sunglass industry with its smart-priced, high-quality eyewear, new grooming line Harry's is poised to upend the business of razors and blades.
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JustFab is one of a number of new e-commerce or fashion web start-ups such as ShoeDazzle, BeachMint, Trunk Club, Bonobos and Warby Parker.
It took 10 minutes more for her to measure my pupils, register my account information on the Warby Parker website, and photograph my prescription as required in some states.
Warby Parker is doing for global vision what TOMS Shoes did for bare feet: For every pair of eyeglasses the company sells, it gives a pair to someone in need.
Previously an equity analyst and a portfolio manager and investor at Montgomery Securities (now part of Bank of America Securities), Green became an angel investor in start-ups such as Warby Parker and Bonobos.
After all, as these Warby Parker or Ray-Ban-designed devices become more fashionable (ie: innocuous), most of us won't even know if we are being filmed when gazed at by a bespectacled stranger.
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The Chocolate Factory has the technology for its Google Glass locked down in a patent but it has to collaborate with fashion retailer Warby Parker to make its artificial eye tech look cool, says the New York Times.
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Startups are the extensions of the mom-and-pop corner store, both in how they enable brick-and-mortar businesses to operate more efficiently and more profitably (Square, Evernote), and also in how they are reinventing offline businesses for an online economy (Warby Parker, Everlane).
To promote itself in reality life, online glasses retailer Warby Parker launched the Warby Parker Class Trip, an old yellow school bus retrofitted as a Warby Parker show room and taking a six-month cross-country road trip to nine cities.
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