Preparing Speech for Chinese Ecommerce Foreign Trade Federation Annual Meeting

Posted by Michael Michelini | Nov 16 2011 | Comments (0)
Talking on QQ now to tons of Chinese ecommerce EXPORT executive on a QQ tree group. They are all so excited for this weekend’s Hero Meets Hero Ecommerce meeting, where I will get a chance to speak …. here is the exciting chat we are having: Aleshia...

End of the First Shenzhen Startup Weekend, Many More to Come!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Nov 14 2011 | Comments (2)
Typing this up monday morning on the hong kong bus, traveling there with ahmed and his wife mona who came to facilitate shenzhen’s first official startup weekend! he gave me a ton of support and feedback on how the weekend went, how to improve and confidence...

Lots of Energy, Ending Day 2 of Shenzhen Startup weekend #swsz

Posted by Michael Michelini | Nov 12 2011 | Comments (2)
An intense, but inspiring weekend here in Shenzhen! Its our first “official startup weekend” (we have the brand behind us now) but still did have a quick and dirty BootUP! weekend a couple months ago. This startupweekend, after taking what we learned...

Trip to a Dongguan Industrial Park, Friends Helping Friends

Posted by Michael Michelini | Nov 09 2011 | Comments (4)
Today I took a trip up to Da Lang district of Dongguan to visit my friend David Zhang (aka @digitalboy) from geekcook. They setup my own desk set aside and encouraged to work here as often as I like. I was going to take Doug and others interested for the day and...

Great Time with John Biggs from Techcrunch in Shenzhen!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Nov 05 2011 | Comments (3)
So many events these past couple weeks, as well as the weeks ahead, but last night (Friday) was a relaxed and effective meetup for the Shenzhen startup and hardware community to meet John Biggs, a gadget editor on techcrunch and share their products and startup...

Scrambling, I mean planning for next weekend’s Official Shenzhen Startup Weekend

Posted by Michael Michelini | Nov 01 2011 | Comments (1)
Maybe I won’t use the word “scrambling” when I post the news about next weekend’s first official Shenzhen startup weekend blog or websites…but here on my “personal blog” I’m gonna keep it real! I’m truly overextended...

Welcome Doug! American SEO Joins the Team in Shenzhen, China!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 30 2011 | Comments (4)
NICE! Welcome Doug Pierce, aka Mr. Doug Unplugged to Shenzhen, China! He found me on this blog a while back and we had been emailing back and forth. When I announced I was taking a trip to America Doug saw I was going to be in Hoboken, NJ (nearby his place) and...

Keep on Rockin! Techcrunch in Shenzhen – Friday November 4! w/ @johnbiggs

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 29 2011 | Comments (2)
Seriously on a roll lately with networking and community building! Wish I could make it to Techcrunch’s Disrupt Beijing! conference this week, but luckily one of their editors, John Biggs, will be in Shenzhen visiting for a few days and planned a quick, informal...

Learning About Startup Team Building, Business Partners from China Accelerator

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 28 2011 | Comments (2)
Apologies in the delay since last post…so many things going on this week! Definitely think this past Tuesday was the best startup Tuesday we have had here in Shenzhen! Cyril spent the whole afternoon solid from 3pm til the event started at 7pm to sit one-on-one...

Week Plan – Connect, Innovate, Build Teams, Startups

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 23 2011 | Comments (3)
This past Saturday’s startups HK saturday inspired me even more…meeting more innovators, more investors, more mentors. TO SUCCEED To not lose sight in what I love to do….international business, cross border connecting. Enabling people. This Startup...

Recap of Startup Saturday Hong Kong 2011 #sus2011

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 23 2011 | Comments (4)
A very impressive turnout, the guys at startups hk have done an awesome job building out the startup and entrepreneur community in Hong Kong! I would say over 200 people came to today’s event. Doing my best as a blogger, for those who wished they could...

Startup Tuesday Discussing USA coworking + Startup communities

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 20 2011 | Comments (0)
Had been back in Shenzhen only a few days, but needed to come up with a presentation for Startup Tuesday. What better than to review the USA coworking and startup groups I met while on my travels! (slides here) Trip To America! USA coworking spots Startups Shenzhen …....

Back in Shenzhen, Hanging at the newly upgraded SZteam coworking space

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 17 2011 | Comments (2)
Back in Shenzhen, China and ready to ROCK now more then ever. It 100%. I am back, and I am here to stay. Monday morning I woke up at 7am, still a bit jet lagged, and rode my folding bike to the shenzhen team coworking space ….ready to start the week off...

Reflections + Summary of 3 Weeks in USA

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 14 2011 | Comments (0)
Traveling to a different American city every 2-3 days over a 3 week span is extremely exhausting…but it was again eye opening and ever expanding in my “life calling and purpose”. I now more then ever feel I belong in China. I want to bridge Chinese...

My twitter friend Zee, self published author, airport book signing!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 13 2011 | Comments (0)
Another blog I’m typing up on my 15 hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing, I just finished reading Zee Gorman’s book “Snowdrops and the Night Warriors” book two of the Altethlon Chronicles. I met Zee on twitter maybe a year or so ago,...

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