Our mission at Giantnerd is to be the web’s best outdoor social shopping community and we have received a number of prestigious press mentions for Giantnerd’s progressive and innovative social commerce platform. It seems as if Giantnerd has been consistently “in the news” since we launched into beta earlier this year. Mashable, Facebook, and Techrunch to name a few have all reported postively on Giantnerd Social Shopping.

Just yesterday we were honored to be featured in a major business magazine. Entrepreneur Magazine listed my top 5 Twitter feeds to follow to stay on top of new and emerging trends in e-commerce. If you use twitter like I do this list is pretty invaluable. 

In a relatively short amount of time Giantnerd continues to exceed expectations for disrupting the large retail market for outdoor sporting goods by integrating social networking with ecommerce best practices. Here is a big Powered by LOVE thanks for the loyalty and support of the Giantnerd Members, The Nerd Herd, and our strategic brand partners. As it is written in our founding description, “Giantnerd  is a coalition of product-savvy members, passionate vendors, and a small group of caring employees dedicated to serving the needs of the Giantnerd social shopping community.”  We wouldn’t have experienced the success and growth without your Love and we are forever grateful!

Now for the fun stuff. We couldn’t be more excited, driven, and hungry to continue to enhance the Giantnerd platform and our members experience in 2011. We have a laundry list of exciting new features and partnerships we will proudly unveil in the upcoming year. Think more social integrations, more ways to engage and interact, and more of the world’s best outdoor gear.  Our 14 core values have served The Nerd Herd well allowing for cooperative progress revolving around the best interest of our members. The Nerd Herd is passionate, determined, and nothing short of obsessive to deliver a fun and rewarding social shopping experience. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. Here is to a Giant and Nerdy 2011 Powered by LOVE!

With Love,

The Head Nerd

Randall Weidberg

@GiantnerdCEO

It’s not easy in this day and age of uber competition to lead a company with the #1 Core Value of Powered by LOVE.  You can’t sit on the sidelines or be out the door at 5 or 6 or even 8pm. You need to successfully guide a team of dedicated and smart individuals who embody, believe sincerely in, and execute day in and day out the core values that make Giantnerd best in class. I take pride in our core values and try to lead by example with a hands on approach. 

The reality is that no CEO or Head Nerd can do it on her own. She must have faith and trust in the team to execute and be accountable each day, each hour, and on each decision made to reflect the spirit of the mission statement. It takes true sacrifice by the Nerd HERD to ensure Giantnerd is the leader in online social shopping and making our member experience a memorable one Powered by LOVE.

Sometimes late at night I reflect on how far we have come and how much further we plan on going and I couldn’t imagine doing it with any other group of Nerds. At the end of the day, we control our own destiny and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Giantnerd Core Value #6 We Control Our Own Destiny: We will be faced with many challenges. It’s how we overcome these obstacles that are important. We are accountable and take ownership for all things Gianternd® and act accordingly with our solutions. We understand that when we collectively put our heads together we can solidify our success. Accountability and responsibility among our team, both individually and collectively, will lead us to great things. As a company, we’ll never run out of ways to improve—mostly because we’ll never run out of problems that need solving. And in that lies the inherent beauty of what we do: in a world of unlimited challenges, we have an unlimited list of successes that await us.

With Love,

The Head Nerd

Randall Weidberg

@GiantnerdCEO

New Giantnerd icons representing our love and commitment to the Giantnerd member community.  

Community may be the most important word on this site. Because when we talk about community, we’re talking about the nuts and bolts of the whole operation. 

The community determines which products we sell: if demand for a certain item becomes overwhelming, we’ll find it and make it available at the best price anywhere. The community helps design the evolving look and feel of the site itself: if something needs to be adjusted, it’s because you said so. And the community drives innovation across every arena of outdoor sports imaginable through collaboration and ideation among peers, with help from members of the Giantnerd® HERD team. 

This is a community of people who are all deeply engaged in the outdoor sports world. Every member has a voice; and at Giantnerd®, every member is given the tools and the platform to express his or her nerdiness as loudly as they want! So join the community and experience the true power of teamwork. Your participation will not be forgotten.

In order below:  Powered by love, 365 Day Returns, and Nerd Dollars.