{"id":2651,"date":"2013-02-01T00:41:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:41:47","slug":"spotting-retail-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/02\/01\/spotting-retail-trends","title":{"rendered":"Spotting retail trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to Monocle 24, <a href=\"http:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/the-entrepreneurs\/45\/\">The Entrepreneurs episode #45<\/a>\u00a0(forward 32:40-42:14). Short interview with Arnault Castel. He&#8217;s the man behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ka-pok.com\/webshop\/\">kapok<\/a>, a brand gaining traction in Hong Kong. I think they just launched in Malaysia as well in the Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this interview interesting? Quite simply because Castel ended up in Hong Kong by accident (from France), worked in banking (a French bank doing stuff overseas &#8211; he didn&#8217;t want to do military service after his business studies), built up Lomography Asia, continued his expansion to bringing in Moleskine\/Rhodia\/etc, and now does kapok. Key points to note? He did Lomo&#8217;s in 2001, Moleskine in 2004, and so on. He&#8217;s a retail trend spotter.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also a bootstrapper: all his ventures started out of his home office.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of frequent travel is probably brought up a lot in this interview too. Helps with the spotting.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about building community &amp; community marketing for Lomography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behasso.com\/blogs\/behasso-com\/5732812-informal-interview-arnault-castel-hk\">Further reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Spotting%20retail%20trends&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F02%2F01%2Fspotting-retail-trends&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Short interview with Arnault Castel. He&#8217;s the man behind kapok, a brand gaining traction in Hong Kong. I think they just launched in Malaysia as well in the Gardens. Why is this interview interesting? 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