NICE! Welcome Doug Pierce, aka Mr. Doug Unplugged to Shenzhen, China! He found me on this blog a while back and we had been emailing back and forth. When I announced I was taking a trip to America Doug saw I was going to be in Hoboken, NJ (nearby his place) and we arranged a meeting at a cafe to …
Keep on Rockin! Techcrunch in Shenzhen – Friday November 4! w/ @johnbiggs
Seriously on a roll lately with networking and community building! Wish I could make it to Techcrunch’s Disrupt Beijing! conference this week, but luckily one of their editors, John Biggs, will be in Shenzhen visiting for a few days and planned a quick, informal meetup for this coming Friday, November 4th: John Biggs Today, 8:48 AM Saturday Thanks to Michael …
Learning About Startup Team Building, Business Partners from China Accelerator
Apologies in the delay since last post…so many things going on this week! Definitely think this past Tuesday was the best startup Tuesday we have had here in Shenzhen! Cyril spent the whole afternoon solid from 3pm til the event started at 7pm to sit one-on-one with different startups in Shenzhen, about 30 minutes each. I could see (and hear …
Week Plan – Connect, Innovate, Build Teams, Startups
This past Saturday’s startups HK saturday inspired me even more…meeting more innovators, more investors, more mentors. TO SUCCEED To not lose sight in what I love to do….international business, cross border connecting. Enabling people. This Startup Tuesday in SZteam we’ll have Cyril Ebersweiler Venture Partner @ SOSventures Int. and Founder of China accelerator speak on incubators and seed stage investments. …
Recap of Startup Saturday Hong Kong 2011 #sus2011
A very impressive turnout, the guys at startups hk have done an awesome job building out the startup and entrepreneur community in Hong Kong! I would say over 200 people came to today’s event. Doing my best as a blogger, for those who wished they could go and missed it, I took notes from the keynote speaker, Dave McClure from …
Startup Tuesday Discussing USA coworking + Startup communities
Had been back in Shenzhen only a few days, but needed to come up with a presentation for Startup Tuesday. What better than to review the USA coworking and startup groups I met while on my travels! (slides here) Trip To America! USA coworking spots Startups Shenzhen …. Bringing Together Shenzhen’s Startup Community! Today’s Agenda Intro – Round the room, …
Back in Shenzhen, Hanging at the newly upgraded SZteam coworking space
Back in Shenzhen, China and ready to ROCK now more then ever. It 100%. I am back, and I am here to stay. Monday morning I woke up at 7am, still a bit jet lagged, and rode my folding bike to the shenzhen team coworking space ….ready to start the week off and crank out a full day (its 12 …
Reflections + Summary of 3 Weeks in USA
Traveling to a different American city every 2-3 days over a 3 week span is extremely exhausting…but it was again eye opening and ever expanding in my “life calling and purpose”. I now more then ever feel I belong in China. I want to bridge Chinese and American internet and ecommerce…its such a challenge…and I love challenges! Here are some …
My twitter friend Zee, self published author, airport book signing!
Another blog I’m typing up on my 15 hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing, I just finished reading Zee Gorman’s book “Snowdrops and the Night Warriors” book two of the Altethlon Chronicles. I met Zee on twitter maybe a year or so ago, and we chatted about my being in China, and her being a Chinese now living in …
Remembering Why I Became An Entrepreneur, Thanks Greg!
While I wish I could visit and see all my friends in America …this country is massive and as time passes friends and family move to different parts …..hometown friends, college friends, coworkers from NY, family moving to florida, roommates in California…. One of my entrepreneur friends I have always looked up to, Greg Schwartz, unfortunately I wasn’t able to …
Finding Acceptance Being In China, Quality Visit with Mom + Dad
Many of my friends ask me, what do my parents say about me being over in China. It has been a bit of a transition, honestly when I first came to China, as I have said in previous blogs, my parents had a hard time…..I left a quality highly sought after job on Wall Street, and I moved to China …
Walking Through a Shopping Mall …Market Research For Chinese Factories
Man….its hard to shop in America after spending four years in China! Everything I look at I try to calculate the manufacturer’s price and landed cost! One of the things some of my friends and business colleagues in China asked me to do was to go to a shopping mall in America, snap photos of products along with price tags, …
Reflections On Steve Jobs Death….Losing a Great American Entrepreneur
I have blogged about looking in the mirror every morning which is from Steve Jobs….we have to live each day like it will be our last, we have to look into the mirror in the morning, when we are washing our face and thinking about what we will do that day. I still try to force myself to think that …
USA is making me focus, and realize –> I belong in Asia, feeling…guilty
Coming back to America always is a reflecting point for me, meeting my friends and family, seeing where they are in their life, their goals, dreams ….and of course they always ask me “what is it you do, exactly”? And I have been lectured to, as a friend, to get a focus… some read this blog (Ken!), and they do …
Hustling NYC, Too Much, Too Little Time
Seriously, I overextend myself and then get all crazy (emotional roller coaster) . This year’s USA trip was much more organized and planed than *** last year’s mania. But still, I overbooked myself, and feel like I let a bunch of people down….rushing through meetings and trying to get too many people together at the same time. Here is a …
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