Sometimes being an entrepreneur is great, other times not so much. I am now 2 hours into a 6 hour bus ride from Shanghai to Wenzhou to sign a contract with a new factory so that they can produce in time for our May 1st launch. The bus, with a less-than-delightful mix of odors circulating around the crowded seats, has very little legroom for your average Chinese man, let alone a 6 foot 2 foreigner. Underneath me in the luggage compartment sits 2 large rolls of linen for our Off the Rack line, which I had to haul through the bus terminal and past endless streams of staring Chinese people, all talking about me with no idea that I could understand every word. "Why would a foreigner be taking so much fabric on the bus," one woman said to her husband while they both shared a bag of sunflower seeds. "He has a big nose, but its not the biggest I've ever seen," said one onlooker.

The snoring guy next to me losing the loudness contest to the atrocious VCD blaring canto-pop. The problem is, I'm the only one who seems to actually dislike this horrible situation, thus further proving my inability to change anything about my surroundings. So, I continue to bury my head in my laptop which is quickly running out of power. What I will do after the battery is gone? I'm not sure, but it will likely involve granola bars and frustration.

I've got a crazy day ahead of me, we're negotiating with a factory to produce our first non-customizable line of blazers in response to some complaints that our prices were a little high. Its our mission to provide a low-cost alternative to the big guys without sacrificing quality and that's why I'm sitting on this bus right now. The factory will produce our products with a low enough cost that we'll be able to undercut just about everyone for certain blazers, all the while giving you a premium product that has every detail you'd expect from a blazer for $500. Connecting the factory floors of China with you the consumer, sans middlemen.

After I sign our contract, and the customary Chinese baijiu has been consumed in mass quantities, I'm getting on a plane at 10pm to fly back to Shanghai. Then, another day of madness in anticipation of our May 1 launch. Over and out from the middle of Zhejiang province.