Today we bring on Arash Eskandari who is our SF / Silicon Valley advisor for Business development and product management. He is a great guy and I’m happy to have him on the show with us. We plan to have the 2 of us on together more, with updates on the business and sharing knowledge and tidbits along the way!

Topics covered in this episode

• Progress of Social Agent marketplace so far


• The Chinaccelerator experience


• Recommending Chinaccelerator and other incubators to other startups?


• Started in China – lessons learned about internet regulations.


• how long it takes to get an ICP license


• how Websites that get turned off in China


• Opening up to International agent market.


• Focusing on our English website


• Dealing with the Chinese market in the future – more manual process


• Some advisors telling us to go all Chinese – to Chinese


• But we are focusing on English / International market


• Open to feedback from our listeners on this model.

Mentioned on the show

• chinaccelerator


• Geeks on a Train


• ICP license – internet content provider


• Alicloud Chinese hosting


• SocialAgent.cn


• Sina weibo


• UGC – user generated content

My editor thought I was a little negative in this one. It is a special market in China. I love China, work here, married here, and my life is here. Hope I don’t offend anyone, just sharing the real process and being transparent.

Episode Length: 24:21

Download Options

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• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/podcast/social-agent-podcast/id875787627


• Stitcher (android): http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/social-agent-interview-sales-agents-b2b-businesses-on-lead?refid=stpr

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