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Chris Osborne

Personal Blog

How I travel the world with my family while building a tech startup

My son is now 1 year and 3 months old and since he was fit to fly at 6 months; myself, my wife and our son have been traveling while I grow my startup non-stop. We’ve had a blast so far visiting Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Turkey, Spain […]

Playing Poker in Macau

I’m typing this on the ferry heading to hong Kong after a week in Macau playing poker, taking my son swimming, eating far too many oily carbs and constantly being amazed at the wealth I’ve witnessed at the casinos in Macau. I venture to Macau on a fair regularly basis to play Poker, although I […]

Lessons learned building a business that relies on advertising revenue

For those who don’t know, I’ve been updating a newsletter for the past 3 years and for a long time the sponsorship revenue generated from this newsletter represented a large part of my income. I’ve learned a lot about dealing with sponsors and in particular building a lifestyle business that relies on advertising revenue. What […]

Let’s not take that call

“Let’s take a call” Reading these words in my inbox brings shivers down my spine. I know what’s in store; we’ll go back and forth trying to figure out dates and times that work for us both to schedule a call. We’ll finally get the call scheduled into our calendars, only for one of us […]