by Paul Lepa | Dec 4, 2009 | Growing Business
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...
by Paul Lepa | Dec 2, 2009 | Growing Business
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...
by Paul Lepa | Nov 30, 2009 | Growing Business
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...
by Paul Lepa | Nov 26, 2009 | Growing Business
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...
by Paul Lepa | Nov 25, 2009 | Growing Business
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...
by Paul Lepa | Nov 24, 2009 | Growing Business
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...