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Dollar Shave Club backer: We can take on Gillette

When I first saw the video pitch for Dollar Shave Club, I thought it was a joke. The fact that the site was down for a long period didn't help.

But as we know now, this thing is for real. The YouTube video now has more than 1.6 million views. A backer I spoke with said it's all part of the strategy.

At Launch, I talked with Peter Pham, from Science Inc., the accelerator that's been working with Dollar Shave Club. Science has been working on other similar plays, like the underwear company MeUndies and the … Read more

The new online toilet paper business: Alice.com

As start-up pitches go, "Never run out of toilet paper" isn't the most compelling I've heard. But the new online packaged goods store Alice, which is behind that scintilatting come-on, isn't quite the loser Pets.com clone I thought it was at first.

While Alice appears to the end use to be a reseller much like Drugstore.com or Diapers.com (I'm a Diapers.com customer, it's great), it's actually built on a fundamentally different business model. Alice is not a traditional middleman reseller. It takes no markup, CEO Brian Wiegand told … Read more