Late night – lots of clean up

Started the day with a 3.5 hour video (actually conf call) with some boys from Canada on framing a new venture into China.  NDA in place – so cannot discuss details – but fruitful, interesting meeting.    Interesting synergies. With cash flowing in...

Running the empire in my robe

My nasty cold came back today, so I ended up staying home.   Amazingly (or maybe no so amazingly) we had a record day, operations worked, and I was completely unnecessary in the operational side of business.  Had a brief chat with Mina about state of...

Very busy operational day

I’m writing this blog post from my phone. Off for a drink with a friend. Had a busy day, very, very operational. Started with an unexpected need for large amount for RMB to deal the unexpected sales volume. As the team worked exactly how much they needed i worked on...

Keys to success

I saw a car waiving through the Beijing traffic today.  It reminded me the of the days when I would take my little crazy toy back in Canada and do the same thing.    A few of customers in Canada would comment on my toy and the fact that I was...

Fast track

We are fast tracking ‘SilverDevotion.com’ marketing for Xmas.    My style of communication (in Nov 2009) is here.  Putting it here to see if there is an evolution with time on how I reach out to the teams. I will also follow up on this post after...

Corporate Structures

Spend a big part of the day looking at corporate structure.  I go the ownership done and have in essence created an investor friendly structure.  I can bring in ‘friends and family’ and also institution investors as well.  So, that is done. Now, I’m...