Back in Beijing

Arrived back in Beijing yesterday.    Was a  cool trip back.   Went through Germany, and had a lot of quite airplane time.   I’m finding I’m quite enjoying the airplane time lately (in right conditions) as its quite a little...

Peaceful fighting and Canadian beavers

It matters not how well things are planned, execution still takes time and energy. This week was that week, except it was my personal life that consumed the week. And I have to say I’m tired. This week plan A called for me being deep in the mountains by Boston...

Pets in a bag

Insane article today about Chinese manufactures selling live pets in sealed bags as key chains.   Made me thing when I saw it about our policies for RedStores in terms of what/if we will have to regulate things such as this.  ...

Devil in the details

And so, as I’m preparing for the pitch, I’m running over and over the business plan and asking myself questions that I would be asking someone else should I be investing in them. Having done the pitch a few times now to a couple of friends, the details are...

Art of business building

As I am now working on finer details of the RedStores ventures plan I’m finding the work to be very thrilling, exciting and rewarding. As I was think about “why is that?” I have come to realize that the part I truly love about is is the...

Holiday Week

Last week and a good part of this week has been a Chinese version of Halloween (but without the candy and and parties). For big part of the week, I spent a lot of time on getting the pitch for RedStores Ventures polished up and tightened up.    ...