Nora Abousteit from shatterbox on Vimeo.
Check out this fun and informative video from Shatterbox, discussing how our co-founder, Nora, turned her love of sewing into BurdaStyle!
Learn about her beginnings as an intern for Hubert Burda Media, one of Europe’s largest publishing companies, and her journey to building a site that reaches the next generation of sewers, crafters and DIYers!
Shatterbox is a video-based social community for students and young professionals to find inspiration and share ideas about innovative careers. We are so happy that they chose to tell Nora’s amazing story!
- David @ BurdaStyle
May 19, 2010, 12.33 AMby nessys
This is so lovely – I agree with all the comments – Nora, you are an incredible inspiration! Thank you so much for BurdaStyle – it is a wonderful thing. You go girl! xxx
May 16, 2010, 04.40 PMby lrhwright
This is my first day on BurdaStyle.com. The video was very inspiring, informative, and encouraging. I’m looking forward to greater things here. Thank you.
Apr 30, 2010, 05.00 PMby fabricaddict
Absolutely fantastic – Nora you are an inspiration! You and Benedikta have created an incredible site that provides so many of us with so much creative inspiration – we love it too :-)
Apr 29, 2010, 01.07 PMby nuiwida23
Great video Nora, it’s great to learn more about you :)
Apr 29, 2010, 07.16 AMby santaelena
Wow – fantastic work Nora! Thank you for it! I heard you went to highschool in germany – also kann ich Dir ja auch weiter in deutsch schreiben; es ist wirklich bemerkenswert, was Du in solch kurzer Zeit geschafft hast. Respekt! Mein Traum war es auch immer, in die Medien zu gehen. Und wenn sich mir diese Chance irgendwann irgendwo bieten würde, würde ich heute sicherlich auch zugreifen :) Gerade in der Medienstadt Hamburg,
Ist die Seite so auch für Deutschland geplant? Mich wundert es, dass man z. B. den Sewing Club nur auf Englisch gemacht hat – dies wird sicherlich einige davon abhalten, die des Englischen nicht so mächtig sind. Ausserdem kann die deutsche BurdaStyle Seite einiges von Eurer lernen; insbesondere das “Learning” fehlt dort.
Ich wünsche Dir weiterhin ganz viel Freude bei Deiner Arbeit und weiterhin auch viel Erfolg.
Es wäre toll, weitere News von Dir zu sehen oder zu lesen.
Herzliche Grüße aus Hamburg,
Janine
Apr 28, 2010, 11.02 PMby tontondiva
I loved watching the video and glad that Nora had the insight to create such a community! Thanks!
Apr 28, 2010, 02.33 PMby thehouseofhearts
Nora I love your passion, drive and entrepreneurial spirit it’s very inspiring! Thank you for sharing this video with us. BurdaStyle is hands down my favorite social network online (yes that’s right it out ranks Facebook in my books!)
Apr 28, 2010, 09.32 AMby shereesews
It’s nice to know how my favorite social sewing website was founded! Thanks sew much BurdaStyle.
Apr 28, 2010, 08.19 AMby bleuedee
You rock!
Apr 27, 2010, 10.41 PMby forgetfulmare
If only this were closed captioned…
Apr 27, 2010, 09.17 PMby oonaballoona
ich liebe nora.
Apr 27, 2010, 08.38 PMby nora
Thank you guys for all the nice comments!
BurdaStyle is only as great as its members and you guys are truly awesome, we’re lucky to have so many talented and nice people that make this site so amazing.
And now I am a little teary:)
Apr 27, 2010, 01.35 PMby skwarynia
It’s so nice that you shared this info with us. Great video indeed, and very interesting. I love burdastyle too!
Apr 27, 2010, 10.17 AMby gedwoods
I agree with Erin about the teary-eyed, it’s a great video about a wonderful leader and it was fun to get to know “our” Nora a little bit more. Inspiring!
Apr 26, 2010, 09.55 PMby nikkishell
Ich Liebe BurdaStyle too! :) Well done Nora!
Apr 26, 2010, 05.42 PMby stephiaffi
Really interesting video! Thanks!
Apr 26, 2010, 05.17 PMby Erin E
Is it crazy that I got a little teary? What a great video! I love this website. It’s been a wealth of knowledge for me for the past couple years and I’ve really enjoyed watching the site grow and improve. I especially love the genuine passion behind it and the graciousness of the members and staff. It’s been a labor of love and it definitely shows :) Thank you!