My day started out a mess with a really crappy email …but amazing what a difference a nice email can make in your inbox. I applied last week to attend TEDGlobal and got accepted! I’m thankful for the opportunity to have co-organized the recent TEDxShanghai event as I’m sure that had everything to do with it. I also wrote the equivelant of a novel in answering some of the questions on the application and listed a special someone as my reference that might have helped. I’d like to think it …

“what does it mean to be human if we don’t have a sharing culture?”

*photo in thumbnail: giuli-o / flickr / creative commons

…a preview of things to come. :)

Stepped off a 5 hour flight from Los Angeles yesterday, dropped off our bags at the hotel and headed to the Ezogiku Ramen right behind the Hyatt Regency for a quick lunch with Chris and my little man.
It’s a cute little hole in the wall looking ramen noodle place that’s easy to walk right by and miss if you’re not the type of person who travels to eat and seeks out little hole in the wall looking places to begin with.
My son was pretty hungry after refusing to eat the …

photo: Chris-Seufert / Flickr / Creative Commons

Aloha. Guess what? I’ll be in Hawaii from May 24th to June 4th …working.
What does this have to do with China?
In the short term for the next few weeks. Nothing. In the long term for the coming years. Everything. Before I go into that, let me try and sum up how I got myself in this envious position of spending eight days in Oahu, Kauai, Maui and The Big Island connecting good people to each other so great things can happen.
I’ve spent the …

The China Business Network — which has been in stealth mode since closing its first round of funding — relaunches this month with invitations going out to charter members across various sectors of China business. Each charter member added in the beta phase represents several levels of expertise that will lay the foundation for a vision that’s been two years in the making.
In plain English, we’ve taken decades worth of Rolodexes of a number of great people in our China business circles and built a platform that allows us to …

All I have to say is *wow* what an amazing group of people I’ve had a chance to touch base with over the past few days. Everyone brings with them a positive vibe and shared excitement about getting on a long haul flight together, enduring jet lag and hopping from city to city meeting equally inspired locally based entrepreneurs in a span of 8 days. *whew
I’ll be profiling each of the folks in our group in the coming days. In the meantime, this is going to rock. Dave McClure is …