Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Entreprenören Björn Söderberg: ”Vi har aldrig tjänat så mycket pengar på någoting”
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Konsten att hantera motgångar
Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig.
Det tror jag är en bra beskrivning av livet i allmänhet och livet som entreprenör i synnerhet. Det som avgör hur bra man lyckas, både i livet och som entreprenör, tror jag till stor del handlar om hur man hanterar de gånger när de inte blir som förväntat.
Jag trivs otroligt bra med det jag arbetar med nu, men ibland kommer ögonblick när jag bara vill gå hem och aldrig komma tillbaka.
Vid såna tillfällen är jag glad över att både jag och Lina har förmågan att först bryta ihop en stund, men sen kan ta oss samman och börja fundera på hur vi ska vända det här till något bra. Hon kanske blir arg på mig för att jag berättar det här. En gång blev Lina så arg på en leverantör att hon gick hemma och skällde ut dem högt för sig själv i en halvtimme. Sen kunde hon åka in till kontoret och ha ett lugnt möte med dem. Ofta är det bra att få ur sig saker, men det gäller att göra det på ett kreativt sätt. Och det tycker jag hon gjorde där.
Vi får ofta frågan om hur det fungerar att driva företag ihop med personen man är gift med. Jag vet inte hur det är för andra, men för oss fungerar det fantastiskt. Summan av våra samlade ansträngningar är större än delarna var för sig. Men vi har bestämt att vi inte får prata om budgetar och ekonomi efter att vi gått och lagt oss.
I Nepal har vi nu äntligen fått fram de ekologiska tygerna. Det har tagit lång tid, men med tanke på att leverantören i Indien var tvungen att färga den ekologiska bomullen med växtfärger och sen låta det torka utomhus innan det kunde skickas till Nepal får vi vara nöjda. Nu har vi 500m ekologiska tyger som väntar på att bli skjortor.
Idag har vi släppt en light-version av vår site. Vi har fått så mycket frågor om man t.ex. kan köpa presentkort innan jul så vi har beslutat att lägga upp en sida där man kan se alla produkter förutom skjortorna. Det ska bli spännande att se hur det utvecklar sig.
Vår facebookgrupp fortsätter att överraska oss. I snitt ökar den med över 20% i storlek varje dag. Helt otroligt! Den responsen är utan tvekan något som gör det här jobbet så fantastiskt.
På söndag ska jag träffa både Tirtha, som är VD för Child Watabaran och Björn Söderberg, den svenska entreprenören i Nepal som blev årets talare förra året. Förhoppningsvis ska jag få till en intervju med dem som jag kan lägga upp på YouTube.
Sebastian Stjern
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
The final stretch
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Read about us in GöteborgsPosten
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Clearing customs
We are currently moving forward towards the launch at a high pace. A luckey few have got the chance to design their own unique shirts at our beta site. Their respons has been very positive and helpful. We are now changing a few things after their tests and opinions.
The website looks great, the IT crew at Monator are doing a great job. I cant let you see the site yet, but you'll have to trust me.
When we launch the site we will have more products than tailor made shirts, we will also sell towels in ecological Egyptian cotton, cuff links made from recyckled circut boards and paper products made from in Nepal from recycled paper.
We are currently planning to move this blog, so that it will appear under our main website www.thefairtailor.com. But we will of course let you know all about that.
Right now the fabrics are clearing customs between India and Nepal. As soon as they get to Kathmandu we will start making the first shirts. Govinda, our employee in Nepal is doing a great job to get everything up to speed.
On Sunday you should try to get a hold of the newspaper Göteborgsposten. They interviewed me this Monday about social media. It's going to be interesting to read the article.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
A stylized logo and a press release
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Fabrics are on their way to Nepal
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
I'm back in Sweden
I have just got fabric samples of Egyptian cotton fabrics from India and the quality is so good. Much better than I had expected and I had high expectations. We have maybe 500 fabrics to choose from and we have samples of them all.
The trip to Nepal was a great succes. It took 15-16h workdays but we pulled it of in the end. But I could not have done it without Tirtha, Govinda and the other guys. Thank you all.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Who brings a granade launcher to the opening of a childrens home?
After we had passed a point on the road, the miltary started shutting the road down, since the president was comming to the inauguration. 300 guests attended and there were 1200 military/police guarding the event.
The Maoists are threathening the president, hence the big security detail.
I can understand why they could find use for M16s and sniper rifles,
but I can not really understand why they brought granade launchers to the event.
Did they plan to shoot granades at the childrens home if something would happen there?
Anyway, in the last minute the president canceled his visit due to security reasons.
Despite the fact that the president didn't show up it was a nice ceremony and it is amazing to see the result
of all the hard work put into this project.
For The Fair Tailor things are going really well.
We have finished the 20 sample tailor made dress shirts that I set out to get with me back to Sweden when I fly out tomorrow.
Govinda is doing a great job and we are soo lucky to have found him.
I have had some troubles with YouTube this morning, so I can not add any video right now.
But stay tuned, it will come soon.
There have been something wrong with this post. It looks a bit strange and some of the words are missing. I have tried to fix it, but I may make it look even more strange.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
We have organic fabrics!
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
A meeting with Björn Söderberg
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Cockroaches in the room and ants in the laptop
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Hanging out in Abu Dhabi
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Getting ready to go to Nepal
I have not started packing yet, but I think I know where everything I need is at least. I should be able to make it in time.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
An inspiring environment
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Our website is on it's way!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
One thousand and one things
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Fair Tailor exists!
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Acceleration
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Monday, August 3, 2009
We're back in business
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