This will be a longer than usual video blog. Truly insane and intense back to back to back events, business development, and growth of teams and people and skillsets. Let me run down some of the highlights of this massive breakthrough return trip to Shenzhen, China from May 27 to June 5, 2024. Arriving – straight into logistics learning and …
Flashback! Meetup with Startup Weekend China organizer OG Crew
Blast from the past! Sunday June 2, 2024 – 12+ years since we all came together to host some life changing Startup Weekends – the key organizers all got back together. Wilson was in town and I was in town – Nik and Kawai both based here in Shenzhen – and luckily all could get together for lunch to share …
Hong Kong Bitcoin Asia Hyper Networking
Back in hyper Hong Kong! 550am departure from Chiang Mai, Thailand – arriving a bit over 9am local Hong Kong time – but super smooth immigration, Airport express, and short taxi ride right into the mayhem of Bitcoin Asia. Started the trip with Forked, https://frkd.io/ a founder’s networking and VC speed dating full day event. And wow, – talk about …
Forked Event Hong Kong: VC / Startup Matchmaking
Had the pleasure of attending the Hong Kong Forked event, May 8, 2024 – right off the plane! From their site, https://frkd.io/ FORKED is designed as a combination of activities happening concurrently, focused on helping founders’ projects to grow: from industry leaders sharing insights on stage to Founders & VC networking in the matchmaking zone, facilitating the birth of new …
Bitcoin Asia Hong Kong Event Recap
Had the pleasure to attend an epic Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong May 9 – 10, 2024. A massive event with booths, and speakers from around the world – speaking all things Bitcoin. It was a bit out of the way at an old ferry terminal- yet still thousands of people in attendance. Was able to reconnect with my …
Ordinals Asia Hong Kong Event Recap
Intense Ordinals Asia Event in Hong Kong The third and final event on my first time back in Hong Kong since covid – saving the best for last here – is the Ordinals Asia event. Organized by my old friend Jan who is now CSO at Xverse wallet and some of his colleagues there – this event did not disappoint. …
From Bangkok to Hanoi: Blockchain and Innovation
On the road again, as my late Uncle Bill would say (rest in peace). And I take the camera with me, as always! This trip was a 2 city destination, first down to Bangkok for Southeast Asia Blockchain Week, and then the main event – Hanoi for the first ever “in person” Handshake hackathon. SEABlockchainweek was epic, the pre-events were …
Reviving Original Ecomm Site, Photo Shoot, and more!
Saturday afternoon and the hustle and grind never stops – we have been preparing for a photo shoot for one of our main brands on Amazon – Esatto Products – and made it a fun little event at the same time. As we keep plowing through the ecommerce “gladiator” arena on Amazon, we realize we must go to multi-channels, and …
Oman Trip To Speak on Decentralized Domains & Community
First time to Oman or anywhere in the Middle East for that matter (not counting a layover in Dubai airport!) Have to say, this was not what I was expecting! Right on the Gulf, beautiful beaches, high-end hotels, malls, and shops. Yet I can imagine not the entire country is on the beach with high-end hotels and malls, but still …
Won Top Prize at Web3 Spring Ideaton
Been quiet lately on socials, just building and creating for the Loadpipe web3 ecommerce ecosystem – but felt it would be good to get out and network a bit so joined the pitch event at Spoke about the “Next Blue Ocean: Blockchain Ecommerce” and how Loadpipe and our first ecommerce marketplace on it, Hamza, will open the floodgates for a …
Speaking at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) by Bitmain in Muscat, Oman
Excited to announce I was invited as a speaker and influencer at the upcoming Bitmain WDMS (World Digital Mining Summit) on March 28, and 29, 2024 at W Hotel Muscat, Oman Will be sharing about how community building in a decentralized environment has been and leveraging what you can to make the most! Maybe I can catch some of you …
Quick Taipei Trip For Handshake
On the road again, as I stamped out of Thai customs I realized I hadn’t left since October 2023! Half of me wanted to stay – saying goodbye to 8 and 9 year old children is really hard – every day with them is precious. Yet I am back on the road- this time typing up in Taipei, Taiwan for …
Welcoming 2024 for Handshake: HandyCon Pre-Event in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Was an intense time at the 2024 kickoff pre-event for HandyCon 2024 – grabbed some clips on my vlog camera An intense time doing it both ONLINE and OFFLINE with a great turnout on both channels. What a way to kick off 2024 than the bring a bunch of amazing innovative people for the future of the internet together. HandyCon …
2024: The Year Of Letting Go & Empowering
The screenshot in today’s blog choked me up. For years (I’d say since 2020 covid lockdown) been actively working to take our Shadstone agency and build leaders and managers that can grow and operate without my “pushing”. Our team members are code named “ninjas” – yes Shadstone ninjas. There is a whole story about it and even made custom hoodies …
Elephant Sanctuary Group Trip & Experience
Wrapping up the Cross Border Summit 2023 a few high level speakers and guests joined us for a Sunday morning trip to the Elephant sanctuary. Bright and early at 630am we met at the hotel lobby to take a 1 hour drive up into the mountains of Chiang Mai. Arriving approximately 8am, a welcome speech from the elephant sanctuary manager. …