how to manufacture 1000+ units of new, custom fabric based product?
I thought about doing this kind of thing as a side business – this is what I have learned from my friend who does this kind of work professionally. Her company produces various kinds of bags for sale on the internet, on shopping channels and in retail stores. They have about 50 employees, which is obviously a lot bigger than you, but I think some of the information may be very useful to you because the process they engage in (and the process that I was considering engaging in) sounds kind of like what you are looking for. The staff in the US designs the bags, reviews samples, coordinates shipping/payment/CUSTOMS (not insignificant)/distribution. They have all their materials produced by contract manufacturers in China – they have a handful of employees who spend a lot of time there coordinating with the factories and supervising the work. I think that they have relatively significant sales, but they also have hundreds of products. For the scale that you are talking about, I think that
