Hanging out with Rue this rainy Thursday afternoon. He is really excited about his business promoting local music via Shenzhen Local Music – going through some wordpress training and backup FTP techie jargon. He and I want to work to bring together foreigners + Chinese in South China, he’s more focused on the music and artist industry, while I’m more …
Planning Quick Canton Fair Meetup, Guangzhou China Monday April 16
Foreigners come to China for the first time normally based around a trade show. I took my first trip to China in 2007 to attend trade shows. I ended up only going to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai trade fairs – not making it to Canton Fair that year (I didn’t realize how complicated it would be for me to …
Considering Creating a New Shenzhen, China Incubator
I remember reading an article when I was younger about Bill Gross and his idea factory….a place where all kinds of new ideas were dreamed up and built into a reality. I still vividly remember reading that business magazine article and getting excited about it. And many, many of my friends say I am destined to run some kind of …
Shenzhen Startupweekend – Say it outloud! Passion overflowing!
Words cannot describe how I feel this Monday morning….the passion, the emotions, the excitement from this past shenzhen startupweekend was surreal. Its about the sponsors, the mentors, the judges, and most importantly, the entrepreneurs who came out all weekend took risk and time to build something! We had some mobile apps made in a weekend! We had database driven websites, …
Inside Chinese Entrepreneur Community – Day 2 Shenzhen Startup Weekend #swsz
Its saturday afternoon here in Shenzhen’s 2nd official Startup Weekend! We have 12 ideas / startups / teams going strong and I’m going to be the first (in English at least!) to write about them: Team #, Team Name / Idea (if no name) #63 – Business Capital Bridge – a platform for capital matchmaking #18 – Good Try online …
Shenzhen Maker Fair, Demo Products Designed in Shenzhen!
Currently typing this at Shenzhen’s startup weekend! This weekend is definitely a defining time for the “critical mass” to get Shenzhen’s startup and entrepreneur community on the map! Also this weekend is the Shenzhen Maker Faire which my friend Eric Pan and others from Seed Studio and Chai Huo hackerspace are organizing. He invited me to speak at the afternoon …
Startup Madness! Pushing for this Weekend’s Shenzhen Startupweekend
Been tons of action happening with this weekend’s upcoming Shenzhen startup weekend. We have Caidy, from the Shanghai startupweekend team, flying down tomorrow, we have lots of visitors from all over the world stopping by. Its at the same time as the Shenzhen Maker faire, but like people have been saying, its all making sure Shenzhen is on the map …
Great time attending my 4th Xiamen, China SEO conference
Been attending this major Chinese internet marketing conference since march 2009, have met so many people, and learned so much during these 2 short days…I can remember how nervous and anxious I was when I attended my first conference here…now I see familiar faces and know how it will go so am now I’m completely prepared. Presented on a panel …
Inside a massive chinese government ecommerce summit
Its true…my friends tell me this time of the year….so many conferences, trade fair. March and April I will be better prepared for next year…..back to back awards speeches (still working on that blog writeup from last week), product trade shows in hong kong and guangzhou, and tons of events and visitors in town. Doug has been here a few …
Business Tour Guide? No, I’m a Chinese E-commerce Consultant
Have had my ‘tour guide’ hat on the past couple day, and expect to keep it on for the rest of March. I was tour guide of the year at my university, being one of the first tour guides to start during my first year enrolled there. I enjoy showing people around new places and giving them insight and advice. …
Trip to Guangzhou, TV Interview on GDTV Facetime
Seriously things have been happening so quickly in 2012. Over the past couple weeks Amy and I have been talking to Halley at GDTV (Guangdong TV) located in Guangdong province’s capital, Guangzhou This TV show is called FaceTime, which is a series of interviewing foreigners living and working in China. It is not actually aired inside China, but instead its …
First Impressions of Shenzhen, China to an “Outsider”
This is my blog’s first guest blog post, written by Nick and Tim from TEL (The Elevator Life) American friends of mine living and working over in Guangzhou, China who spoke at last week’s Startup Tuesday. So here we go! Let me clarify the term “outsider.” I live in Guangzhou, a neighboring metropolis less than 1 hour by train. I’d …
Canadian University Visiting China, Recruiting more Chinese to enroll!
Gotta love the photo with me and all the beautiful Chinese women today at lunch! It got a bunch of feedback on my Chinese weibo, some sarcasm but overall laughter! As China develops into a larger and larger economy by the day, with upper class families still respecting the Western university over the domestic Chinese college, Western Universities are noticing …
Startup Fever! Pushing upcoming Shenzhen #SZSW @startupweekend April 6-8
1:30am here and I’m forcing myself to get this blog out before crashing. “I got the fever”…startup fever. And though many of my “trusted mentors and advisors” have tried to slow down my “NGO” work before I starve (haha, yes in a way some have said it to me this directly) but I do have a passion for connecting and …
Excited for next 3 topics at Shenzhen Startup Tuesday!
Worked over the past couple days to queue up speakers and topics to keep the Startup Tuesdays rocking after an awesome Boyd Jones talk last tuesday, Rachel + Henry from comfortworks home decor australian ecommerce startups, they have some experience in the Australian startup weekends and event management – taking a huge load off my shoulders updating the Shenzhen Marketing …