Frictionless
Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for You
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Publisher Description
Serial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of “frictionless” to beat their competitors.
Based on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commerce—made possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers. Working with bestselling author and journalist Duff McDonald, Lemieux also shares her own story—lessons learned, failures absorbed—at the helm of DwellStudio (which was acquired by Wayfair) and her latest venture, The Inside.
Some founders profiled in the book are reducing friction in their own business models, others reduce friction through improved customer experiences, and still others are revolutionizing their operations to create frictionless organizations. Readers will glean lessons from the founders of well-known companies such as Instant Pot, Bonobos, Hims, and Halo Top—as well as upstarts Billie, Dame Products, and Convene.
Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrow’s mind set and competitive advantage.
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Every successful start-up has helped reduce the "friction," or inconvenience, of day-to-day life, asserts Lemieux (The Finer Things), founder of The Inside, a home furnishing company, in her snappy but thin survey. Lemieux interviewed more than six dozen entrepreneurs and found each one, in one way or another, trying to reduce inconvenience whether in pharmacy prescriptions, shaving kits, customized hair care, or office rentals. She warns that in modern business being frictionless isn't just advantageous, it's necessary digital natives won't bother with products that are anything less. Less time spent on using a good or service means more to spend on family, friends, or oneself, Lemieux writes, and, based on interactions with her own millennial workforce, she believes "found time" is important for younger generations. While Lemieux's tone is refreshingly salty millennial workers are "taking back their time from the people that have been taking it away from the rest of us our whole lives" the concept of friction reduction is overly familiar, and the frequent plugs for her business are off-putting. There's little new here.
