Getting halfway through this six part, three week road show – The Asia Roadshow has now gone to Vietnam and this Tuesday evening Oct 1 we had our third meetup – this time inside the Amazon offices here on the 36th floor of a very downtown area. Have to say – Vietnam was one of the lower amount of registrants …
The Asia Roadshow 2: Bangkok, Jam Packed Networking
So time for our second road show “The Asia Roadshow” – a co-event with Flippa and our Global From Asia community – as we lead up to the sixth annual Cross Border Summit happening Nov 3-5, 2024 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This one was the one where I started my travel, as the first was in my “home city” of …
First “The Asia Roadshow” in Chiang Mai, Leading to Cross Border Summit
Just can’t help myself- gotta do this hyper networking and hyper travel. This is the first in a 6 part roadshow – “The Asia Roadshow” we (our community at Global From Asia) is doing with Flippa. It started with connecting with Fiona at Flippa about podcasts and Cross Border Summit – which they came through and sponsored our summit (thank …
Integrating Family and Business, Weekend Business Meetings
Family and business, you know I am a workaholic. Typing this up physically and mentally exhausted from intense creating and building. To have your own business is a blessing, yet is also a massive pressure. To add on top raising a family – and many of you know the thought process and challenges. For me, I am trying to integrate …
Business Development Grind – Ecomm Meetup, Encounters, Seller Dinners
Just taking the video camera with me on another “outside day” doing business development. Had our regular Chiang Mai ecommerce meetup – the format people like is going around the room introducing yourself quickly, highlighting who is doing what. Then this time we had a few people come up on stage and share for 5-10 minutes about some of their …
Outcalm Mindmap in Real Life & Big Board Meetings
A few days of intense sessions – both 1:1 and group board meetings. It is about pushing your boundaries, facing your fears and stress head on, and improving. Alex Avanthe, I’m blessed to be connected and working with him. He’s running his practice “Outcalm.com” to help business owners to use calmness as a strategic advantage. In addition, he’s also our …
Speaking to Thai Sellers & Manufacturers at CMU Step Amazon Event
Another day, another sharing. This is what it is about, “hitting the pavement” and making relationships. I was invited by the Amazon Global Selling team in Thailand to share about the seller community and events we are doing (Cross Border Summit + others). During the 20 minute slot, I decided to make it a bit more interactive. Asking questions, seeing …
Pitching Hamza decom marketplace at web3 ICP startup day
Starting the journey of going live on our 1+ year of building a decom (decentralized ecommerce) marketplace – called Hamza. Was invited to pitch at an offchain ICP startup event on Thursday August 15, 2024 at the Yellow Coworking space in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Gotta get yourself out there and have fun with it! Like we said in the last …
Put Yourself Out There – Early “Alpha” Of Decom Hamza Marketplace
The common question – what is the latest on our web3 ecommerce marketplace (decom) Hamza Over a year now in the making, we are pushing out an MVP (minimum viable product) – alpha – code name called “Alpha Ship” – to stop building in the dark and to build in the public. Reid Hoffman at Linkedin has the famous quote …
Featured on Dropship Unlocked Podcast – Cross Border Summit + Blockchain Ecommerce
I got featured on a top UK podcast. The full episode just went live! I’ve had to keep this under wraps for a little while, but now I can finally reveal that… I was a featured guest on the Dropship Unlocked Podcast! This is one of the UK’s top e-commerce podcasts, hosted by e-commerce experts Lewis Smith and James Eardley, …
Visit to Little Forest Chiang Mai Retreat Center
Had a nice visit to Leah’s Little Forest retreat center. Some highlights: Learn more at Littleforestchiangmai.com Also, join us at Cross Border Summit Nov 3 -5! From Leah: I’m opening a little eco-retreat center near Hang Dong in November. We’re building sustainable clay houses and a permaculture farm where people can come and get out of the city for a …
Passion: Meetups and Community Building, the Chiang Mai Ecommerce Sellers
Typing this up the day after the regular Chiang Mai ecommerce meetup we do. Was going to leave my vlog camera home but my smart and amazing wife Wendy said I should take it with me. And glad I did. One of our favorite meetups to date – 25ish people from all over the world, all different levels of ecommerce …
Brussels for EthCC! Path to bridging web2 + web3 ecommerce
Feels like a couple of early chapters in this book – the stage where we have been working so hard and long on a demo for our Hamza ecommerce multi-vendor marketplace on web3 – and are ready to showcase it to all the early adopters and users in the world. And realizing – either we are too early or they …
Dusseldorf! Experiencing Euro Cup Soccer (Futbol!)
Bit of a random side trip – but before Brussels, Belgium for the EthCC blockchain conference, Emily at World First was able to hook us up with some tickets to the Euro Cup match. World First is a major sponsor of the event. So Beau and I took this opportunity to attend just before taking a train to go to …
Family Trip to The Thai Hot Springs
We are in summer! Kids finished school a couple weeks ago, just as I got back from the epic 3 week multi country Southeast Asia trip – and we need to do some family bonding. Wendy picked a local hot spring and we made it a family effort to research, book, and go! Also practicing having my kids more active …