Friday, April 27, 2012

Majamba will be launching at Paleo'12



Now it's not everyday you get a call - inviting you to launch your start-up at one of the biggest festivals in Europe that welcomes 230,000 fans every year! That's exactly what happened on Tuesday and today we signed the paperwork. It's official, we will be launching Majamba at the Paleo.

We have done the Majamba technical launch, the commercial launch, and other test launches to see whether the platform holds up. Now this is the real thing. We are ready for the BIG TIME. We will be going live with the Swiss launch of Majamba. The festival will start on the 17th of July 2012 and we will be there rocking with the fans.

If you are lucky enough to have a ticket already, we will see you at Paleo. We are cooking something special with Enea, Mattia, Maya, Fed, Diego, Nico, Rajiv and with Jeannine and Alex's guidance. We will be announcing something new soon...Free Hugs and Much, Much More...


Sunday, April 22, 2012

An Awesome Sense of Accomplishment

Compassion: Norbulingka Institute, Dharmsala, India 

We have just completed a giant roller coaster trip of Northern, Central and Western India. Here is the route we followed - La Sarraz-Geneva-Zurich-Delhi-Dhramsala-Delhi-Jabalpur-Delhi-Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Delhi-Zurich-Geneva-La Sarraz. We met new friends, thanked old friends, received blessings from elders and reconnected with cousins. Overall, we are blessed with an awesome sense of accomplishment and here is why?

1. In every city, we received re-confirmation that what we are doing is something good: Building a global market for handmade goods is clearly seen as a positive thing. And building a platform where anyone can discover good people, projects and products is very challenging because creating the human network of social enterprises, advertisers, Majambassadors, developers, designers, marketing experts and support teams (lawyers, accountants) and early adopters takes time & perseverance.

2. We met with three incredible people in Dharmsala, Mumbai and Delhi, who have agreed to become Majamba Ambassadors (Fellowship Track). We will be announcing their names soon.

3. We met with five social enterprises in Dharmsala and Ahmedabad that will be publishing a part of their catalog on Majamba.Me

4. We thanked the development team in Ahmedabad for their hard work and valuable advice.

5. We were blessed by our family in Delhi who took the time to visit us for a dinner honoring my mother who also enjoyed the first of a kind party.

6. And we sat down with my Uncle in Mumbai who advised us to tweak the business model; create a sharper value proposition and complete the foundation (team and platform) before launching the marketing campaign. Currently planned for October 2012.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Wandering in India

Wandering in India!
In the next three weeks, we will be meeting people who are doing good around the world and are based in India. Looking forward to sharing some good stories with you. Our goal is to boost our fair trade catalog with more products. As well as meet people who can provide leadership to build a community of members who do good and get goodies.