{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to Monocle 24, The Entrepreneurs episode #45\u00a0(forward 32:40-42:14). 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? Quite simply because Castel ended up in Hong Kong by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,651],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-community","tag-retail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-GL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}