T-Shirt Competition Websites
The following is an excerpt from t-shirttalk.com.
T-Shirt design contests are all the craze. It was threadless.com that really got t-shirt contests going on the internet starting in 2000. Skinny Corp founded Threadless.com with less than $1000 and zero loans. The founders Jake Nickell (26) and Jacob DeHart (25) met online at a design competition forum called Dreamless (doesn’t exist anymore). Nickell won a t-shirt design contest and then decided to start Threadless, an ongoing design contest in 1999-2000. When Threadless started they paid winning designers in T-shirts and quickly increased the prizes to cash. Threadless has done zero advertising and has been purely word-of-mouth (see Skinny Corp FAQ). It was not easy though, during the first two years of Threadless, the founders did not take salary and continued to work full time jobs. All of the proceeds in the first two ears were reinvested back into the business. — more at t-shirttalk.com.
