If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. What a wonderful story of an e-commerce company bootstrapping to $12 million from a small town called Horsens in Denmark. When we spoke in 2019, all of the 60 employees working under Trendhim CEO Sebastian Petersen were working out of Horsens. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. What a wonderful story of an e-commerce company bootstrapping to $12 million from a small town called Horsens in Denmark. When we spoke in 2019, all of the 60 employees working under TrendHim CEO Sebastian Petersen were working out of Horsens. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at
What a wonderful story of an ecommerce company bootstrapping to $12 million from a small town called Horsens in Denmark. All of the 60 employees working under TrendHim CEO Sebastian Petersen work out of Horsens currently. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,
Sramana Mitra: I’ll tell you one thing though. You made this comment that outsourcing is bullshit. That’s absolutely false. There are a lot of ways of succeeding. You have succeeded in one way. There are a lot of other people who have succeeded in other ways. We have case studies of virtual companies with 140
Sebastian Petersen: If you want to start an ecommerce company today, it’s very difficult to do it without a lot of funding and thinking big from the very beginning. Today, buying visitors and customers is four times the price it was 10 years ago. You have to think more creatively today. Sramana Mitra: I’d say
Sramana Mitra: What country did you first go into outside Denmark? Sebastian Petersen: Norway and Sweden. Then we started going south into Germany and France. Sramana Mitra: Was there something different that Norway and Sweden wanted? Sebastian Petersen: Only simple things. Once we started moving out of Scandinavia to Germany and France and especially Eastern
Sramana Mitra: Can you tell me how many years are we talking in this mode? When did you move out of your mom’s house to your own apartment? Sebastian Petersen: We only did that for about six months. Sramana Mitra: How much were you doing, revenue-wise, when you moved to the apartment? Sebastian Petersen: I
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. What a wonderful story of an ecommerce company bootstrapping to $12 million from a small town called Horsens in Denmark. All 60 employees work out of Horsens currently. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you