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2014-03-20

A factory worker in a factory I cold-emailed Have you ever found a list of 10 factories on alibaba, sent out a bunch of emails, and gotten basically...

2014-02-01

You’ve done the hard work of finding a factory to partner with. You’re a few orders in with the factory and most things seem to be running...

2014-01-22

Even Apple fights an uphill battle against reverse engineering I received an email from Mark from ProgressForge last week. Mark is pumped about going...

2014-01-09

I’ve had a lot of emails lately from people asking how to judge the quality of products they find on alibaba. All of the other issues with alibaba...

2013-12-23

oDesk and Elance are awesome secret weapons for expanding your reach in this world. These websites allow you to contract work out to people all over the...

2013-11-27

I learned a lot of my China sourcing chops by doing- ordering lots and lots of product. I learned the ropes as I went. I got a lot of good advice- and...

2013-11-21

Hiding something? Earlier this week I wrote about how to find factories- and my #1 trick is to backtrace the factories of my suppliers via customs databases...

2013-11-19

Just hanging out with some scrap steel One of the most common questions I am asked is how to find factories. Here’s the method to my madness. ...

2013-11-16

The wine refrigerator looked like this, except evil Mistakes… I’ve had a few (a ton, a lot, a million). One that always stands out is the...

2013-11-15

This lady is confused. Or angry. Or maybe constipated. Just like most disciplines, product design and sourcing people talk in their own arcane lingo...