Written For the Entrepreneur Coming to China
Interested to move to China and start your business? Maybe already here and looking for inspiration and an adventure to read. Destination China is a story about a transition from working on Wall Street in New York selling on eBay part time turned into quitting the day job a trip to China that was supposed to be 1 month and turned into seven years and counting!

This book was written to the "Mike in his early China days", the entrepreneur venturing over to China to start his or her own venture and make it big. To strike gold in China. I wish this book existed when I was first coming to China - it is written by a young entrepreneur for a young entrepreneur. Each chapter I share the story and adventure, then to close up each chapter I write a few tips and recaps for takeaways you can plug into your toolbox when coming to China for your business.

Not an entrepreneur wanting to come to China? It’s still a fun read where I hold nothing back and share the the challenges, highs, lows, and horrible mistakes I made when coming to China. Keep you on the edge of your seat and ready to laugh at my ignorance, hope it is entertaining!

Also I hope professors and teachers of business and entrepreneurship can take a good read at this to understand their younger generation students. We learn by doing, but listening to stories and case studies. Theory only gets you so far from the classroom, but actually going out there into the wild, a student of entrepreneurship & business can blossom.

A parent and your child has decided to move to the other side of the world to grow their business? This may be helpful for you to come to grips on why. I remember my mom crying in confusion when I told her I was moving to China, this helped her understand better.

What’s Covered In Destination China

Chapter 1 Leading Up To China
Wall Street
Get An MBA?
Find a New Job?
Do My E-Commerce Business Full-time?
Start a Franchise
Saw China as the Future
New Opportunity Sourcing from China

Chapter 2 Take a Trip to China Arriving in Hong Kong
Cross Borders - Going to Mainland China
Day in Shenzhen
Confirming Which Cities In China To Visit
Which Cities Did I Cut?
First Taste of Internet Filtering
Head to Shanghai
South vs North factories
Finding Chinese E-Commerce Sellers
Learning About Agents and Factories
Halloween in Shanghai
Wall Street Connection
Culture in Beijing

Chapter 3 Where to Live in China?
All About Getting Things Done Faster
Departing Flight to China
Where to Live
First 6 Months Living in China
One Night with Mr Wang
My First Hire
How To Incorporate my China Business?
Chinese New Year Caving Kick Off New Lunar Year With Shanghai Trip
Start Building Internet Marketing Team Chinese E-commerce
Creative Warehousing
Watching the Olympic Torch
Setting up Chinese Company Better Investment than an MBA
First Online Sale in China
Ningbo Trip & Chengdu Earthquake Sticking To Business
Beds and Foreigners New Product Idea

Chapter 4 That Feeling When You Go Home
Hardest Is Leaving Family & Friends

Chapter 5 Rocky Road - Keep Pushing
Back to the China Hustle
Hiring and Firing
Fallout with an Employee
Am I Just Profiting off Cheap Labor?
Understanding Grey Chinese Business
Quality Control Nightmare
Emotionless Factory Owner
Starting a Blog in Chinese
My Passion Is the Internet Matchmaking
Visa - Business or Work Permit?
Trip to a Chinese Hospital