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Re:Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Su... by scottkduncan on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:42PM (#10089789)
I haven't considered the economics of salons, but not sure they would have the same low variable costs that allow Classpass to succeed in fitness. I certainly wish the team (and all the other YC companies) the best though considering the guts and determination it takes to give it a shot, and you are correct that I am decidedly not in their target market so I may be missing something about the idea that is gold.
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Re:Here Are the 52 Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Su... by rdl on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:08PM (#10089865)
Pretty sure blow drying hair has very low variable costs. Electricity to run a hair dryer.

Everything else is to some extent fixed (including operator). What it doesn't have is SaaS style scalability (1000 users costing the same as 1), and it's not like a yoga class where you can probably do 30 in the same space as 15, but the variable costs are just the electricity.

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