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Aman Advani

CEO, Co-FounderMinistry of Supply

Boston Area

Member Since January 2014

About

Aman was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and graduated from Georgia Tech in 2007 with a bachelor's in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He went on to focus in operational strategy consulting in Deloitte's S&O Consulting group, where he spent 3 years advising companies on their long term production and operational plans. During that time, he was hit with his inspiration - the stagnant men's wardrobe, starting with men's dress socks. After trying the non-profit world for less than a year (in southern Africa) working for a non-profit consulting group, Aman went on to MIT's Sloan School of Management to pursue his MBA. After less than a year, Aman left to pursue his passion and found his co-founders in starting Ministry of Supply.

Published content

What Businesses Can Do to Stop the Epidemic of Overproduction

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Brands can deliver on green promises without having to pass them onto the consumer.

Why We Ditched A Quarter Of Our Business

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Startups often adapt to fit the existing market, and for a clothing company, that means devoting a lot of your resources to wholesale. Or does it?

Don't Let These Myths About Corporate Social Responsibility Hold You Back

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Most entrepreneurs think CSR is too expensive, too time-consuming, or just plain unachievable for smaller startups. Think again.

Five Tips For Creating A New Market

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A great product isn't enough if your startup is entering a new market -- and one it's responsible for creating.

What It Takes To Win In The Age Of Online Retail

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By Aman Advani Our company, Ministry of Supply, started a couple of years ago out of MIT.  We’re a collaboration between engineers and fashion designers, with an aim to change the role fashion plays in your life -- removing barriers by responding to your body’s needs through technical manufacturing and highly [...]

If You Want Loyal Customers, Find Your 'Inverted Jenny' First

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Stop relying on deep discounts and flash sales to drive engagement -- and borrow a technique favored by the likes of the USPS, Amazon and Zappos instead.

Company details

Ministry of Supply

Company bio

Our mission is to design the best products possible through scientific research and human-centered design, all while ensuring a minimal footprint. Dress clothes are notoriously stiff, high-maintenance, and resource-intensive to produce. Using human-centered design and innovative materials, we design sweat-proof, flexible, and machine-washable apparel. Clothes you actually want to wear, and that flex with the demands of a nonstop workday. We engineer products for people who never stop moving, who never stop making a difference, who want to turn a great idea into a better reality now and for the future. While our peers hacked code, we hacked clothing. Our first prototypes were Frankenstein creations: socks and dress shirts built by sewing fabric from our favorite athletic clothes into business-appropriate attire. Introduced by a professor, we showed up to our first meeting carrying our cobbled-together garments. When we discovered our shared passion, we knew we had something truly special to share. Ministry of Supply, was the cover agency for the inventor immortalized as “Q” in James Bond. During WWII, Q (AKA Charles Fraser-Smith) invented gadgets and clothing to help British soldiers and secret agents succeed on their missions. We’re inspired by Charles Fraser-Smith, and aim to be your real-life Q. We are dedicated to combating waste in the textile industry by reducing our footprint, reusing what we can, and utilizing recycled materials at all applicable stages of our production process. From re-considering our inputs to re-thinking our supply chain, we are constantly thinking of ways we can better reduce our impact on the environment and create a more sustainable world.

Industry

Apparel & Fashion

Area of focus

Fashion
E-Commerce
Retail

Company size

Myself only

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