Post: #76

(04-17-2015 02:17 PM)BallsDeep Wrote:  Anyone still a part of this forum? I was thinking of joining but it now seems to be $500 instead of the $99 that it was when the OP was written.

Sounds awfully expensive to join a forum.

For just a forum, 500$ is outrageous. If it was part of a consulting fee, that'd be a different story.

Post: #77

What do you learn in a China business forum? How to hack Western computers? Every fucking day at my job id get 500 hack attempts from China for my geological maps and reservoir numbers. My senior petroleum boss would get well over 1000 per day. On the rigs they would hack Pason (rig site computer network) and try to find our drilling depths. Love the creativity and business acumen!

Post: #78

(04-18-2015 05:06 PM)komatiite Wrote:  What do you learn in a China business forum? How to hack Western computers? Every fucking day at my job id get 500 hack attempts from China for my geological maps and reservoir numbers. My senior petroleum boss would get well over 1000 per day. On the rigs they would hack Pason (rig site computer network) and try to find our drilling depths. Love the creativity and business acumen!

Why would they care? I'm just curious, as I know nothing about drilling. I'd think any data they could extract would be useless, since it applies only to the conditions at that particular physical location. Presumably, the Chinese can't "copy" the actual reservoir along with the data on that reservoir, so how would they use that data?

Post: #79

Yes, still part of the EC. It's bigger and better than ever before. The fee to join is a one time life time fee. Don't have the time to write about it, so read the first page of this thread for reasons and benefits of such a paid forum.

If you're looking to go to China for business, then you cannot afford not being in the EC. As simple as that.

(04-17-2015 02:17 PM)BallsDeep Wrote:  Anyone still a part of this forum? I was thinking of joining but it now seems to be $500 instead of the $99 that it was when the OP was written.

Sounds awfully expensive to join a forum.

Post: #80

For anybody that's part of the EC group, is it still fairly active? I've heard that the Elevator Life guys Tim and Nick have now left China and moved onto pastures new.

Post: #81

(12-03-2015 10:26 PM)betterasianbrother Wrote:  For anybody that's part of the EC group, is it still fairly active? I've heard that the Elevator Life guys Tim and Nick have now left China and moved onto pastures new.

The "forum" itself is pretty dead, however there are still a bunch of threads and guides about product development, forming your business, networking and how to settle into life & business in China, available. We have an active Facebook group with over 100 members and a WeChat group (anyone interested in doing business or living in China SHOULD download that app) as well.

As for Tim & Nick's direct involvement in EC..

Tim is peripherally involved, he's in Cali and focused on building up their other brands i.e. Vincero Collective

However, Nick is in Hong Kong, running a multi-million dollar IoT startup accelerator called, Brinc.io. Even though he's busy as fuck, if you're in the group you have direct access to him via WeChat and Facebook and he always responds within a day. During the Canton Fair (twice a year) he organizes a meetup in Guangzhou, where he'll sit down with the attendees and break down their businesses give advice and invites 2 or 3 other successful EC members to make a speech or have a Q&A.

If you pop over to Hong Kong, you can go meet him and work out of his 10,000sq ft office. I can attest to that as I'm running a sourcing company in Guangzhou and I go to HK on a regular to meet potential & current clients.

A year ago Nick introduced me to my business partner (who's also an EC member) which, no doubt fucking changed my life and I can't overstate the value of being able to get advice on my business from someone who's operating on the level that Nick is.

That being said, I don't think the value of the group at this stage is necessarily Tim & Nick.

I see the new members gaining more day to day value from the community of "seasoned" EC members. It's pretty awesome to land in China and on Day One, immediately have 5 or 10 similar business minded individuals around you, who were in your shoes a year or two ago and know exactly what you need to get settled or set up your own business.

When I joined EC about 16 months ago and paid the 500 bones, my perspective was that if I made $501 from it, then it would be worth it. Considering I started a business with one of the members, we've hired 8 people and our company became profitable within 5 months - I'm pretty goddamn happy I joined.

PM me if you want any more details about the inner workings of the group.

Cheers,

Post: #82

(04-18-2015 05:06 PM)komatiite Wrote:  What do you learn in a China business forum? How to hack Western computers? Every fucking day at my job id get 500 hack attempts from China for my geological maps and reservoir numbers. My senior petroleum boss would get well over 1000 per day. On the rigs they would hack Pason (rig site computer network) and try to find our drilling depths. Love the creativity and business acumen!

Aint that some shit. They hacked the Australian Department of Metereology.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-02/ch...gy/6993278