Two years ago was our last Ninja team retreat. The ninjas are the code name for our amazing team at Shadstone. Special forces team. This was the longest retreat by far – with 3 full days of activities and an arrival day and a departure day. This was to make sure the most time could be applied to having good …
Recap of the last few months (Roadshow, Canton Fair, Cross border Summit, Mastermind)
What a wild few months – and I definitely tested the relationship with my wife, kids, business partners, and many in my network. I consciously decided to push the limits and try to pull this off: And not even mentioning where I type this now – in Devcon With another trip – Ninja Retreat in Philippines with our amazing Shadstone …
Cross Border Mastermind 2024 (Phuket)
Thursday, Nov 7 Friday, Nov 8 Saturday, Nov 9
Web3 tokenomics design workshop (& spa) for Hamza Market
Still recovering from epic amount of business trips on the road the last few months, but we squeezed in a team meeting at Loopers in Chiang Mai to decompress about what we have learned – with a focus on the “web3 element” of Hamza decom market. Beau on the team lead the workshop day – discussing what kind of token …
Devcon Bangkok Intensity
What a year 2024 has been – getting towards the end now and just finished an amazing Devcon – side event edition! Straight after the Cross Border Mastermind in Phuket, we had a flight right to Bangkok and into the Devcon pre-event insanity. While the core Devcon event is Nov 12-15, there are pre-events , side events, morning events, afternoon …
Ice Bath: Wrapping Up Amazing Cross Border Mastermind in Phuket
What a wild ride – wrapping up a best-ever Cross Border Summit and first-ever Cross Border Mastermind. We have 400 gigabytes of footage that we are going through – so expect a recap video and much more. But while that is processing, want to highlight the ice bath we had on Saturday Nov 9, 2024 morning – a rather small …
We Did It – Amazing Cross Border Summit 2024 (Sixth Annual)
Amazing we are able to level up each and every year – our sixth annual Cross Border Summit was epic – and even while the event was happening was able to record this vlog – from leaving Canton Fair in China to the after party, enjoy!
More Time at Canton Fair (Longest Time at Canton Fair)
Though I have lived in China for over a decade, and been to Canton Fair dozens of times – this trip “hits different”. I am living in Thailand and a “Visitor now” And I have been here for 2 phases and stayed in Guangzhou for the entire 10 days (normally would go back to Shenzhen and do quicker 1 – …
Speaking at China / USA Seller Forum Experience
Bringing me back to the pre-covid days again! Memories of our previous Cross Border Summits and Cross Border Matchmaker events – the good old days when we could bring different cultures together and have them share and network. It is happening again, people are opening up – and I joined Amy Wees and her co-organizer during the Canton Fair trip …
Keeping China Connections: Reconnecting with Slan
Here in Guangzhou for a 10 day Canton Fair trip and had to make a trip out to see Slan. Slan is a friend I met at a Xiamen SEO conference in 2009! We have various blogs with him over the years here And had to reconnect – talk business, talk Amazon, ecommerce – Temu, all of them. He had …
Arrival at Canton Fair October 2024 & FBA4U
Just arrived to Canton Fair for a long trip here in Guangzhou. Join me as I bump into Cam, a Canadian seller at the Chiang Mai airport, fly – delayed – direct to Guangzhou China, and do a walk through of the Canton Fair. We also attended the FBA4U meetup at Happy Monk which was an amazing way to kick …
Edge City Day Visit 2! Chiang Mai, Thailand Popup City
Back from Bangkok and straight back to a day pass at the Edge City Lanna – 9ish-AM arrive and welcomed with such friendly and good vibe people. Right off the bat saw Sophie again, who I enjoyed a drawing session with last week. Chatted about China, business – she even had heard of our startup Hamza already and was interested …
DCBKK Experience – 2024’s Annual Pilgrimage of Digital Nomads
October and November each year, I just gotta block off everything from my calendar and say it is intense events. And of course a big highlight is DCBKK annual conference by the Dynamite Circle community. Each year in Bangkok, we get to gather for multiple days of meetups, round tables, masterminds, and speaker sessions. I try to share at meetups …
Popup City Experience – Day Visit to Edge City Lanna, Chiang Mai
October is an intense month here in Chiang Mai – and there is a ton of popup cities forming for the lead up the Devcon (devcon.org) in Bangkok in mid November. A village formed of like minded people who spend a fixed amount of time (in this case about 1 month) to have events / gatherings / team building / …
Last Preparations for Cross Border Summit (and Family Help!)
Mike, Wendy, Snook + the kids are doing some checking out for the upcoming Cross Border Summit! Back in Chiang Mai, and hit the ground running with hotel and after party venue checking for the sixth annual Cross Border Summit. Kids are on a week break from school so Wendy and I took them with us! Snook on our team …