Been hustling like never before, and I thought years ago I was “making something happen outta nothing”. But seriously this week has been non-stop all action and I know my buddies keep asking me how things are going with the Chinaccelerator demo day,...
Feels like I’m graduating college again or something! And wow, its been 90 days already since I started this Chinaccelerator program. Its been a wild rollercoaster (yes GOAT – geeks on a train, but also generally w/ the startup highs and lows) and...
As part of my trip to Beijing, this coming Monday Sept 17 I will speak at a Chinese SEO + SEM internet marketing conference. I have been asked to speak about how social media affects SEO, and integrating the 2 to optimize your search campaign.
This will be a...
As expected, this GOAT (geeks on a train) trip has been a whirlwind – over-packed schedule of events and meetings. We arrived to Beijing Friday morning, about 8am after an 11 hour overnight sleeper train from Dalian. A group of over 20 entrepreneurs, we...
Trying the weekly blog post while I’m working like a madman in the Chinaccelerator. Sunday evening in the office, preparing for the week ahead. Have a few days here in Dalian, China and then we are going on “Geeks on a train!”
What is geeks on...
This is a great example of how you need to have guan xi (good relations) in China. Even in the digital age, its important to have strong relations with government agencies and high power internet companies here in China…let me show here below. (breath...
been exactly 2 years since my first and only trip to beijing. not sure how it always ends up that i come here in the winter….for those not familiar with the location of various cities of china- i live in southern china (guangdong province, city of shenzhen)...
check out the girl’s shirt badge…won’t type the word…
The factory worked I talked to but she had NO IDEA what mo-fo’r meant…in english…thought it was a cool shirt!
Been a wild couple days….. well worth my extending...
As the end of my China trip approached…I kept on meeting more and more people- this more and more places to go, people to see, connections to make – yesterday I got in touch w/ Mainland China Trading & Consulting I work with from Texas, Murray...
at the base
Friend I met on the Walk up
BIG fishie I saw at a pit stop before the great wall
one hell of a day of some tour company saying 50RMB to get to the great wall, just get there at 8:30am – hahah didnt get to the Great Wall until 4:30pm!!! so...
Day 3 in Beijing…making it alright solo – had a nice guy – Mr. Law – friend of my friends in Hong Kong – show me around for a couple hours yesterday morning so I had to get to a 5 star hotel to get an English version map –...
so I ventured out of my hotel solo last night to take advantage of the Shanghai halloween festivities….usually I go out at least w/ a supplier, friend of a friend, or random dude from the hotel, but no dice this Halloween night and i’m not one to sit...