Here are the presentation files from the 2nd meetup. (note, we have to wait permission from some before uploading to the internet) Michael Michelini, seo for b2b china factories (english) , Chinese ppt here Huck Liang, RMB/USD trade settlement. soho importing into china Alex Hornstein – Incubators, hackerspaces & coworking (pile of junk) the pile of junk Jeff Wang – …
Thanks For Attending the 2nd ecommerce meetup
Thank you everyone for coming to the 2nd Shenzhen ecommerce meeting. Great attendance with over 100 people, we are excited there is such interest for these types of events. We will soon get: 1) the presentation ppt files uploaded to the site – we just need to get permission from each of the speakers. 2) Survey – we are working …
Photos for The Venue of the 2nd meetup
Getting lots of questions about how to get there, the size of the room, so I took some photos.
Putting it up on the block, for real this time, newyorkbarstore
Kinda have played with the idea in the past, blogging if people wanted to buy / partner with newyorkbarstore, mentioning it to a few close friends or business colleagues in the bar products industry. I have listed it on a domain selling website flippa – 6 Year Old Bar Products, Supplies Ecommerce Site Page rank 5 domain, decent google rankings. …
Exciting Grand Opening of Five Islands Ecommerce Center!
For those of you following my blog (life), you saw I got another crack at doing business in China – but this time I have the 3 plus years of getting my ass kicked to know how it goes, went through “initiation”, was a white mouse in a maze for a few years….may have not gotten to the end of …
Building Up Interest for This Saturday
We definitely have a lot of interest in this upcoming saturday event – having promoted it on the 3 most popular Shenzhen English websites below. We also have a crowd from the Chinese internet community coming as well, from Ushi. hearing shenzhen TV may come. Getting calls daily. Will be a lot of fun. Check out the advertisements below http://www.shenzhen-standard.com/2011/03/01/2nd-shenzhen-internet-marketing-meetup/ …
Wrapup from BootUp 2 Weekend – More Exciting Startup Energy
more #bootup writeup, I just am so happy to finally have connected with like minded people…..and the idea that you can RAPIDLY create something from nothing…. RAPID DEVELOPMENT. I had been to a Startup pitch event in New York but still, I want to be in ASIA! This is where the action is, this is where the MONEY IS. Yes, …
Reflecting on My Experiences at my first Tech Startup – Kozmo
Taking a #bootup break (I’m at boot hk startup camp weekend) to reflect on my personal experience with kozmo.com. It was a summer intern during the dot com bubble – the year 2000 – what a great year. Magical – my freshman summer at Stevens Institute of Technology, studying computer engineering, living at my newly joined fraternity chapter house – …
2nd Shenzhen Internet Marketing Meetup
Since we had such a great turnout and positive interest in continuing the regular meetings, we are currently looking into the best date and location for the next events. The 2nd meetup is coming after Chinese New Year, on March 5, 2011, still at Kingdee Software Park. We will have these to speak and one case study this time. – …
Do I Need Money To Be Successful?
Is Money Really Everything? Its kind of a second post in a series, yesterday I talked about do I need to be a programmer to be successful in a startup, today do we need money to be successful in a startup? Maybe its because am I a middle man in this whole process? Is my role not as valuable as …
Do I Need To Be A Programmer To Be Successful?
This has to be something we all think about when considering a startup, especially as technology and the internet continue to be the center of most startups. Over and over again, I get people coming to me asking for development companies to make their idea….and I have to kind of worry. Outsourcing scares me…its putting your money into the hands …
Spending Time Inside a Dongguan, China Web Company
These are the times I get some of the most “real” perspectives of business and life in China, those times I spend a day or two inside an operating company. When I first was assigned to the new five islands ecommerce project here in Dongguan, I quickly looked up for people I already knew in Dongguan. I found my Chinese …
More Americans Wanting to Move to China!
It seems at least one per day now, either email, facebook message, twitter DM, or random add on skype and a chat. Phone calls and I don’t know where they got my number. MORE AND MORE AMERICANS WHO WANT TO RE-LOCATE TO CHINA. Some want to teach english, others want to start a business, some who want a fresh start …
Common Question – What Products To Sell Online?
I love hearing people who want to have an online business. I have been answering questions on all experts for years now about ecommerce and online businesses. It gives me perspective hearing about other people’s questions, problems, and confusions….and makes me realize I’m not alone when it comes to the massive and confusing jungle of the online world! Finding the …
FINALLY Social Media formally in Google Search!
Today Google announced something BIG for all those social media people out there…..we have been blessed today! Us social media guys, who have been kinda joked as social media just “playing games” and not really making money by our pure-play SEO link guys……welll…. WELL – now those tweets and blogs will feed into GOOGLE social search. So….like Monamie commented on …