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06-17-2013, 01:08 PM
Good read.
What do you know of people who are working with business development of already finished (hard) product?
Most of these "startup" weekends, destinations, etc seem to be based around digital product. I am in the business (for the moment) of hard product.
Anyone here ever make the transition from hard to digital? I am curious as I could use the break in spending while developing my latest business ventures. Vancouver is very expensive.
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06-18-2013, 01:42 AM
What are your thoughts on Taiwan?
I had a family condo in Shenzen that was just sold last week (made a killing) and a cousin still up in Guangdong. I was hoping to be able to use the Shenzen place but he felt the market turning and got out (he is in development). I still have access to a family condo in Taiwan (vacant half the year) and there seems to be a bit of activity there for expats.
I would like to be able to take rent out of the equation for the first 6 months or so that I am there as well as use family connections for business. This limits me to Tokyo, Taipei and a lesser extent in Shanghai and Guangdong.
I would love to make a go of Tokyo, but there are too many barriers there. I have tried, and while fun I could not make enough money to think about it long term.
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06-18-2013, 03:35 AM
HongKong is more about technology, meantime Sz and Gz are surrounded by factories, thus great for sourcing hard product.
Laner, what are you working with?
Some thoughts about Sz, it is technologically still miles away from HK, mainly due to the chinese censorship and pretty unreliable internet. First one is easy to get rid of, thanks to VPN, but the quality of the connection still sucks... In the office I have a pretty strong internet, but it is not uncommon for the skype to drop calls, mail server to crash, sometimes to load a website takes forever and so on. When at home I often can't even stream a movie in lowest quality. I'm sure with the time mainland China will catch up, but some more water has to flow in Pearl River.
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06-18-2013, 04:49 AM
I have only spent a few nights in Siagon, but I loved it there. If I wasn't tied down to BKK at the moment, I would probably be there.