Virtual meetings with successful entrepreneur in RISEBA. Speaker: Karlis Straumbergs, Straumbergs hats owner

My name is Karlis and this is my story: Up until the summer of 2018 I had absolutely no connection to making hats, or any piece of clothing to that matter. It's hard to tell the exact moment or reason, but an idea came to me: How a hat is made? So I started searching and exploring, watching and reading. But there wasn't a lot of information, so I just gathered bits and pieces and tried to fill in the blanks myself.        

It was June 18th when I ordered my first hat body and piece of strings to block it. Can You guess where I blocked the very first "Hat"? It was on a flower pot!!! But despite the odd shape, it still resembled a hat. After that I tried to work around this problem: I tried different flower pots, but I also knew, that this was just a…