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Sam Ross

@spamross

Founder @NumeralTax (YC 23): Ecommerce Sales Tax on Autopilot // Prev: Fling (8-fig brand), Airbnb, Teespring

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If you think DTC is hard now, you have no clue what’s coming. When I started in ecommerce, getting a site, product photography, and product production in place could cost upwards of $100K before you made a single sale. Today: → There are almost-perfect out-of-the-box site

If you think DTC is hard now, you have no clue what’s coming.

When I started in ecommerce, getting a site, product photography, and product production in place could cost upwards of $100K before you made a single sale.

Today:

→ There are almost-perfect out-of-the-box site
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My Y Combinator Expansion Pack (for scaling) 🧡 Startups need a few more tools to support growth as they scale. Here are a few of my personal favorites: - Numeral (W23): Sales tax is a pain. I spent about 5 hours the other day trying to figure it out. I'm pretty hype that

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Attribution tools are overkill for 90% of DTC brands. Here’s the fact nobody seems to consider: To this day, attribution is still unsolved. Yes, certain brands are getting close — and that’s great. But still, a lot of the time, getting attribution right is like trying to

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My 8-figure DTC brand got a massive CRO boost when we added one element to our PDPs: (outside of good product photography) References to studies. If you sell anything health and supplement-related, they’re must-haves for building trust. But you can’t just cite any study—they

My 8-figure DTC brand got a massive CRO boost when we added one element to our PDPs:

(outside of good product photography)

References to studies.

If you sell anything health and supplement-related, they’re must-haves for building trust.

But you can’t just cite any study—they
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I have two rules for growing a DTC team. They helped me scale Fling to 8-figures with less than 5 full-time people: 1) Contractor First, FTE Second Certain roles may not entail a full-time salary. They may require 40 hours of work this week, but what about each week after?