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JANE LePAWAH
Market Developer, CEO and Foreign Direct Investment (FDi) Advisor of E'Or SOLUTIONS, Inc.™ (ChinaMarket & AfricaMarket)
..."Business leaders today face daily challenges and crossroads where critical decision making about how to grow businesses, cut costs, define future investment allocations, and enter or leave foreign markets happen regularly.
Often those decisions require deep expertise that in-house teams cannot build fast enough, or an external, independent perspective (like ours) that can identify overlooked risks and opportunities"...
MY STORY
It was 9 years ago, just before this whole 'entrepreneurship' hyped craze (we live in today) and during Jack Ma's $22bn Alibaba IPO (the largest IPO in history till date) in the United States;
that the world and China hadn't recovered from and (especially with China's newest title as the second largest economy out of the blues)
That I also was, in late 2014, a 4-month old freshman in business school (Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou) majoring in International Trade ...
There I was seated at the very back (next to the exit door) in Mrs. Lu's IT lecture, bored to death (dying for some little bit of stimulus & excitement). Or really, just waiting to slide out from the exit door before the bell sounded off ...
When suddenly she announced she had hacked a couple different softwares (Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc) online and wanted us to try doing creative projects with them against our Christmas class presentations.
Ugh finally! Something thrilling (outside of studying Chinese Language, which by the way, I' m smitten by) had come along for me since I arrived business school.
JANE-LePAWAH-Zhejiang-University-Science-Technology 2015
My boredom was first and partly because I was tired of endless slides defining business concepts (for the past 4 months from all our lecturers) that I could just google or research them on my own).
It is freshman year, Dah! (What in the world is wrong with me? Haha!)
And second, this was my 3rd round in college. I had dropped out twice before. Simply because I always wanted to be involved in my own learning, instead of listening, to then regurgitate my lecturers.
So some how my Dad had managed to talk me into getting back into college, this time some place faraway that I couldn't runaway from completing.
He convinced me saying, "Pikin (Child in broken English), China is the future and you should go there to stay relevant in the future" ...
Oh well, turns out 9 years ago, Dad had great foresight and was right (now 2022, as I write this, China's rise is upon the entire world), just this once (evil wink).
But, yes after Mrs. Lu's announcement, I ran up frantically to her, handed over my flash stick and she input Dreamweaver; for that right there was the challenge I had been waiting for. Something as hard as coding, with a 5 day time crunch to deliver? Everything, to snap me off my boredom.
So, a big shout out to Mrs. Lu! I feel very indebted to her (she doesn't know this but) she changed my life forever, and set me on an entrepreneurial journey in which I had to risk everything (including my stay in China) just for my creative class project (see videos on the top left, and mid right accros) to become a business.
I mean, I was ready to literally die for this classroom project! (oh la la, how romantic ?).
Although looking back at the presentation and feeling very embarrassed at my coding skills that look very much like my future's son's, the IDEA, noteless was incredible.
The IDEA (I had conceived and prototyped, which I talked about in details in my book, "3 Years in 3 Months") was called "nostalgiaz" ~ it was a country-specific marketplace offering homeland goodies for foreigners in all of Southeast Asia.
JANE LePAWAH & Zambian IT Team Zhejiang University Science & Technology, 2014-2015
Therefore, for the next couple months after pitching this IDEA in class (earning Mrs. Lu first prize), other school campuses' (positive feedback and change of name from 'nostalgiaz' to 'emoH') and my business teachers said to either onboard Chinese investors (for equity) or give it up (focus on why I came to business school in the first place - study) as it was too gigantic.
I decided it was preferable to be personally involved in bootstrapping my IDEA and to hire my first staff (two Zambian gigs on the right). Yay!
But who later on abandoned ship because they were not on payroll (bad boss needing sweat equity) and had as their end goal to graduate college with a 'papered' certificate.
Unlike me whose end goal was to graduate with an actual working business (Come on now! I was in business school, only made sense to roll out with a business. Is this too much to ask as my tuitions' ROI?) and lucky enough my IDEA was my way to it.
An even perfect excuse to quit (business) school yet again! (Tongue out!), hire professional marketplace designer (Eak, an elite Hong Kong-based webmaster) and launch my own tech company legally.
Unlike me whose end goal was to graduate with an actual working business (Come on now! I was in business school, only made sense to roll out with a business. Is this too much to ask as my tuitions' ROI?) and lucky enough my IDEA was my way to it.
HOMAGE and EULOGY to my late Dad, Dr. Chuala Joseph N.
emoH Marketplace 2016 featuring different foreign countries
I know you already passed and wasn't a witness to this. But sorry Dad, I couldn't resist not quitting this time around.
You know? I just wanted to DO international trade and not STUDY it. Big difference right there Daddy!
And besides Dad, can you imagine our Chinese lecturers were not teaching us all the secrets and formulas the Chinese had used to become the second largest economy in the world, out of the blues?
No way, right? So ...
I quit! Got on the streets (the real business school, if you ask me!) and learned those secrets and formulas hands-on, face-to-face, whilst interacting (guan-xing, which is the key to actually succeeding on the China Market), learning and DOING International trade with the Chinese.
And although it took me 3 years to get the business license for my tech company, and sadly I was out of luck with the local Shanghai Government granting me the IT permit (see on the left designed by Eak) after spending lots of money designing the marketplace ... hard lesson I learnt.
It was indeed one hell of ride! And a really, really hard ride of days with no food, burst shoes to meetings, breakouts on my face from the stress of purchasing a second company (see video on the left), got terminally ill with breast cancer too. The stressors, the sacrifices, the heartaches, the costs, years in, the exhaustion, the fears & tears, the unrelenting effort and commitment ... but all worth it.
Now 9 years and I have never looked back to what is today E'Or SOLUTIONS, Inc.™; my second ChinaMarket company, majoring in international trade and movement of capital resources globally.
Dad, I wish you had seen this, I wish you had seen what your baby girl had become and her interactions with the world. I humbly think, I fulfilled your China-wish for me and you'd be so proud!
Rest well Daddy! I love you! And thank you for everything you did when my eyes were too young to see and unreasonable to appreciate you.
I quit! Got on the streets (the real business school, if you ask me!) and learned those secrets and formulas hands-on, face-to-face, whilst interacting (guan-xing, which is the key to actually succeeding on the China Market), learning and DOING International trade with the Chinese.
It was indeed one hell of ride! And a really, really hard ride of days with no food, burst shoes to meetings, breakouts on my face from the stress of purchasing a second company (see video on the left), got terminally ill with breast cancer too. The stressors, the sacrifices, the heartaches, the costs, years in, the exhaustion, the fears & tears, the unrelenting effort and commitment ... but all worth it.
Now 9 years and I have never looked back to what is today E'Or SOLUTIONS, Inc.™; my second ChinaMarket company, majoring in international trade and movement of capital resources globally.
Rest well Daddy! I love you! And thank you for everything you did when my eyes were too young to see and unreasonable to appreciate you.
THROUGH DROUGHT & FAMINE
NOW CELEBRATING 8 YEARS OF BUSINESS ON CHINA MARKET
... "I am very grateful foreign entrepreneurs, global export brands, investors and governments still choose us as their trusted partner after 8 long years.
We have had a storied past of servicing clients from over 4 continents ... start ups, mid cap companies, legendary firms, SMEs, MNEs, SOEs ... within following the following industries:
√Trade & E-commerce√Professional services√Education/NGOs√Healthcare/wellness/beauty√Entertainment & sports√Manufacturing/Construction√Food and Beverage√Government/High Tech/Fin-Tech√Mining/Agriculture/Energy
We are severely committed to making your China Market entry legal and your growth exponential" ...
ABOUT JANE LePAWAH
The decision to purchase/acquire a distressed German Foreign Direct Investment (FDi) firm based in Shanghai/China, was gut-wrenching. But, has by far become one of the most rewarding business risks JANE ever made.
JANE was able to flip over the company (now known as E'Or SOLUTIONS, Inc.™), restructure management/operations, re-design overall strategies, inject working capital ... etc.
Today, E'Or SOLUTIONS, Inc.™ has performed dozens of Foreign Direct Investment deals within China; is also scaled to Africa (as a Private Equity fund called E'Or Holdings, Ltd.™) and equally works with Accredited Weastern Investors.
JANE LePAWAH is also the founder of food'atWORKS.™, a disruptive Health/Wellness lifestyle brand); the author of 2 books - "3 YEARS in 3 MONTHS: How to Go from IDEA to BUSINESS Without Years Wasted in Trial & Error" and "No-Hospital Guide to Breast Cancer Healing: How I Reversed Stage 3 on 4 Breast Cancer".
She's thrived entrepreneurially on the China Market for the past 8 years and is also the founder of another China-government registered business called Yisuo (an end-to-end import & export company for China/Global procurement and supplies).
Today, her opportunities have doubled to mentor, to guide many others through their own entrepreneurial journey (via WOOMBATOR.™) and to offer rigorous management consulting to corporates seeking new markets (China Market and Africa Market).
She is a woman serving from her heart and her head.
She's thrived entrepreneurially on the China Market for the past 8 years and is also the founder of another China-government registered business called Yisuo (an end-to-end import & export company for China/Global procurement and supplies).
Let's go, WORK with JANE LePAWAH already!
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