I know most people outside of China aren’t aware of the Chinese holidays but the past couple weeks have been back-to-back holidays Mid autumn festival (mooncakes) was 2 weeks ago (went up to Beijing and then Shenyang) Workweek started again last Sunday for 3 days and then back to another holiday starting Wednesday Wangxia and I had a trip to …

Passport visas!!!! I remember I didn’t even know what a passport visa was until I came to China – as a US passport holder I’m spoiled traveling to Europe, Mexico, Canada, and other countries without needing to file a passport visa. But in China, I learned to file a passport visa to enter the country. I have had this blog …

Pushing the envelope. I’ll be flying up to Beijing next Sunday September 15th and stay for a few days until the Mid Autumn Festival (Chinese holiday) starts. As always, jamming as much as I can in just a few days. Here’s the current agenda: Sunday, September 15th – fly in from Shenzhen, not making any plans as anticipating delayed flights …

Really excited for Shenzhen’s first Barcamp, there have been many in Hong Kong, I’ve attended a couple, as well as some in Shanghai and Beijing and Guangzhou – now its Shenzhen’s time. I’m glad Zhiyuan and Carrie from SZstartups have stepped up and taken the responsibility to organize such an amazing event! I’ll be there as a speaker too – …

man, its been almost 24 hours now since the party ended and Im still wondering how that happened. A few weeks ago from the “peer pressure slide of Paul Orlando” where I set the launch date of August 10th with a beach party in Shenzhen til today, my team and I were worried we would even fill 1 bus of …

Its been one heck of a year, and I’m gonna use Paul Orlando’s Farewell speech night public announcement of Social Agent’s 3rd pivoted product to formally launch on Saturday August 10th. It was at the end of his speech and Paul had people from around the room (of about 100 people) choose to stand up and give themselves some peer …