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Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by ePierre »

garrettgrimsley wrote: post #27
ePierre wrote: post #25

My goodness. Their website is made exactly after this article: https://medium.com/slackjaw/template-for-tech-product-announ... As for their story... Well, it's great that they wrote up a summary of their adventures, but I'm appalled at the fact that these three 25-something year old Americans are amazed that in China, people speak Chinese and nothing is written in English... Welcome to the World, I guess!

>three 25-something year old Americans It says that they departed from St. Louis, but I don't think that they're American. For one, their English isn't at a native level. Also, at one point in the article they referred to what the vast majority of Americans would call a "soccer ball" a "football." There are many other terms and phrases that I wouldn't expect an American to use, like "China border." Assuming you are A…

From http://needwant.com/about/ :

> Marshall Haas, CEO & Co-Founder: A Texas native…

> David Myers, Design & Co-Founder: From New York…

> Jason Cox, Head of Operations: Jason was a fashion model in NYC…

The only one who's not from the US is

> Jon Wheatley, Product & Co-Founder: Born and raised on the south coast of the UK…

Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't know how to write in their own language?

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by joshvm »

mdorazio wrote: post #24

I have to wonder if there's a market for people who specialize in helping foreigners do factory tours like this more efficiently. For a few hundred dollars, someone who actually knows China could have easily paid for themselves by preventing ripoffs like the taxi to the border (as others have pointed out, the train is dirt cheap) and the rush visas (you can get them done in HK within 24 hours for way less than $200),…

Dangerous Prototypes run periodic hacker camps which tour the markets in Shenzhen, I think recently they're including a factory tour. The focus is more electronics, but the general principles about navigating the city is probably transferable.

http://dangerousprototypes.com/hackercampshenzhen/

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by garrettgrimsley »

ePierre wrote: post #31
garrettgrimsley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>three 25-something year old Americans It says that they departed from St. Louis, but I don't think that they're American. For one, their English isn't at a native level. Also, at one point in the article they referred to what the vast majority of Americans would call a "soccer ball" a "football." There are many other terms and phrases that I wouldn't expect an American to use, like "China border." Assuming you are A…

From http://needwant.com/about/ : > Marshall Haas, CEO & Co-Founder: A Texas native… > David Myers, Design & Co-Founder: From New York… > Jason Cox, Head of Operations: Jason was a fashion model in NYC… The only one who's not from the US is > Jon Wheatley, Product & Co-Founder: Born and raised on the south coast of the UK… Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't kn…

Oh my.

>Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't know how to write in their own language?

Apparently so.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by johnloeber »

garrettgrimsley wrote: post #27
ePierre wrote: post #25

My goodness. Their website is made exactly after this article: https://medium.com/slackjaw/template-for-tech-product-announ... As for their story... Well, it's great that they wrote up a summary of their adventures, but I'm appalled at the fact that these three 25-something year old Americans are amazed that in China, people speak Chinese and nothing is written in English... Welcome to the World, I guess!

>three 25-something year old Americans It says that they departed from St. Louis, but I don't think that they're American. For one, their English isn't at a native level. Also, at one point in the article they referred to what the vast majority of Americans would call a "soccer ball" a "football." There are many other terms and phrases that I wouldn't expect an American to use, like "China border." Assuming you are A…

They're native speakers, but the style is weird, agreed. I think it's the generally extremely simple sentence structure and vocabulary -- this blogpost is probably at a third-grade reading level. There's also no deep commentary on any of the things they encountered or things they thought about. I couldn't help but feel as if I was reading some kind of picturebook intended for children.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by desdiv »

ePierre wrote: post #31
garrettgrimsley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>three 25-something year old Americans It says that they departed from St. Louis, but I don't think that they're American. For one, their English isn't at a native level. Also, at one point in the article they referred to what the vast majority of Americans would call a "soccer ball" a "football." There are many other terms and phrases that I wouldn't expect an American to use, like "China border." Assuming you are A…

From http://needwant.com/about/ : > Marshall Haas, CEO & Co-Founder: A Texas native… > David Myers, Design & Co-Founder: From New York… > Jason Cox, Head of Operations: Jason was a fashion model in NYC… The only one who's not from the US is > Jon Wheatley, Product & Co-Founder: Born and raised on the south coast of the UK… Are you telling me in addition of not knowing that people in China speak Chinese, they don't kn…

To be fair, we don't actually have any evidence that the four co-founders wrote this article themselves. Maybe the bedding manufacturing isn't the only thing they outsourced. /s

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by idra »

johnloeber wrote: post #34
garrettgrimsley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>three 25-something year old Americans It says that they departed from St. Louis, but I don't think that they're American. For one, their English isn't at a native level. Also, at one point in the article they referred to what the vast majority of Americans would call a "soccer ball" a "football." There are many other terms and phrases that I wouldn't expect an American to use, like "China border." Assuming you are A…

They're native speakers, but the style is weird, agreed. I think it's the generally extremely simple sentence structure and vocabulary -- this blogpost is probably at a third-grade reading level. There's also no deep commentary on any of the things they encountered or things they thought about. I couldn't help but feel as if I was reading some kind of picturebook intended for children.

There are also things like "you wouldn’t be able to breath" that make you wonder if they are typos or actual spelling mistakes.

Re: Visiting Factories in China as an Entrepreneur

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Post by idra »

camkego wrote: post #35

These poor guys, it seems not one nice thing was said about them or their article. I suspect they will think twice before posting to HN again.

The article is poorly written and they seem absolutely clueless, have too much money (most likely from a trust fund set up by daddy) and too little sense. There's nothing nice to say.
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