Cool Day

Very cool day today.  Turned 42 and went out a bought a cane and a pair of reading glasses!   Yea – right! It was a great day because today we sold one of our first TaoBao to Amazon products.  We had pulled in and listed some 30 products to do a...

Big Picture Thinking

Inspirational day today.   Was actually quite exhausted today – and running on low energy.  But, despite that has a very inspirational conversation with Gerry.  One of the things that I have been doing poorly on is that I have stopped thinking...

30,000 ft view

We did good. Spent 4 hours today looking at where we where,where we are and where we are going. Financial systems are almost there. I will be sleeping better at night. Running a multi-million dollar company on cash-flow basis is bloody scary. And it doesn’t...

Two steps forward, one step back

I had a very interesting day today. The day started with getting up a little bit later than usual. But I quickly reviewed all the emails and basically planned out the day. Earlier in the morning I found out that my CFO, Carsten, resigned abruptly without any notice....

I needed that

Our Amazon Offer of the Day, blew our expectations out of the water.   At 5AM on Saturday, Amazon called and asked if we add additional stock to the offer as our pre-shipped items sold out early.   Jessica committed to additional stock – and lo and...