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For Young Design Businesses, Is Bigger Still Better?

Following early aughts private equity deals, designers now are avoiding traditional investment and growth opportunities in favour of new models.
Phlemuns has relied on new kinds of capital to scale the business.
Phlemuns has relied on new kinds of capital to scale the business. (Jordan Douglas)

Last year, Jacob Vargas and James Flemons, founders of the Los-Angeles based label Phlemuns, exited two traditional financing partnerships — ones that offered cash in exchange for equity — in favour of a different kind of investment.

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