Visa Geeza Interviews Daniel Cowen, Co-Founder WobbleWorks
I can honestly say, I have experienced it all…
* The Sino British Joint Declaration
* The Brain Drain
* The Handover
* The Asian Economic Crisis
* The Dot Com Crash
* 2 Gulf Wars
* 9/11
* SARS
* The Global Financial Crisis
At the end of the 90’s, I thought I had missed out on a once-in-history revolution based on the new technology of the Internet.
So much was happening at once back then that I couldn’t comprehend its import but now I realise that the dot com boom wasn’t, after all, the real deal.
Nothing compared to what is coming next.
An era is over. The industrial economy is sputtering to an end with a new type of economy emerging; one based on relationships, sharing and generosity.
It’s called the connection economy and it means everything is starting to change.
These are momentous times, so I have decided to interview entrepreneurship widely in Hong Kong to create a record of modern social history: a video snapshot in time of who is doing what in this great city over the next few years.
We’re calling this ongoing production The Visa Geeza Interviewsand offering the opportunity for entrepreneurs in Hong Kong generally to come and be interviewed on the show.
Basically you get to tell your story, share your experience of doing biz in Hong Kong and comment on how technology seems to be changing everything.
From the in-studio and on-location recording we produce your Visa Geeza Interview and you get to use the YouTube video any way you wish.
For free! (What else?)
If you want to come on the show, you’re welcome to apply.
To qualify, you must be an entrepreneur doing business in Hong Kong.
You must have real skin in your game and you can be in any sector or Startup.
We want all kinds of entrepreneurs to tell their stories so please reach out and apply.
Let’s face it, CNN or the SCMP are never going to pick you to report your life story so here’s an opportunity to pick yourself.
Whilst the show is recorded at the Video Cha Cha studios in Wanchai, the director and producer is my good friend and raconteur Jason Black of Empire Media.
We completed the shooting of 4 interviews today and now we’re planning out the next 12 months.
If you want to come on the show, please email Jason at empire-hk dot com writing VGI & Your Name in the subject line,
Please include a link to your website and also a short bio of your life since the age of 16. Mention particularly your entrepreneurial experience in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
Here’s a piece of Jason’s work on his very own Sizzle and Fry Show where he prank calls Chef Harlan Goldstein and Martyn and I give a donation to Foodlink for the pleasure!
Reach out, apply now and be a part of Hong Kong’s business history.
As you may well be aware, it has been more than three years now since Martyn and I launched the Hong Kong Visa Centre along with our websites Hong Kong Visa Handbook and, of course, this, the Visa Geeza blog (some 12 or 13 months later.)
In that time we have learned a lot. Hong Kong and the west generally has moved firmly into the realm of the connection economy and, in case you haven’t realized it yet, everything has changed!
Over the last few months I have been invited to speak at various events around town on the use of video, our business strategy and experience in building a rapidly growing business based on the concept of giving all of our IP, visa know-how and immigration experience away for free via our three websites.
Starting next month, I will be sharing more, much more, and in quite some considerable detail about how Martyn and I have grasped the nettle of the connection economy and built a professional services business from the ground up that is growing exponentially with more than USD1 million in revenues in just three years.
All this achieved by sharing our expertise and know how with our community, for free.
If you’d like to learn how to do all of this for yourself, then come along to the Paperclip Start Up Academy in Sheung Wan and listen to what I have to say.
And, of course, it’s 100% free but hurry to register as there’s only 60 seats available for each session!
On July 10, 2014 I was invited by the good folks at General Assembly to give an overview talk on the opportunities for their foreign national Alumni seeking to remain in Hong Kong after graduating from their excellent programmes.
