HSAY 010 - Joshua Allan - Entrepreneur | Traveler | Technology Developer
Background:
- "Social Media is a great source of procrastination"
- "Be genuine and don't cram a bunch of promotions down people's throats"
Joshua is the owner of Smart Theater VR headset a Virtual, an US ex-patriot living abroad in Uruguay and running his business virtually. He loves social media and how it allows him to keep up with the world as well as curate information he's interested in.
Highlights:
- Living in Uruguay, Costa Rica, Latin America
- Living abroad over 5 years uses social media a lot
- Wanderlust is probably the main reason, had the travel bug since he was a kid. Traveled to over 20 countries.
- Virtual business thanks to the Internet Manufacture in China, business run out of LA and Uruguay with many partners in
- They have been selling the product through traditional reseller channels. Only using social media for promotion of the brand over the last few month.
- Be genuine and don't cram a bunch of promotions down people's throats.
- www.Gab.ai was where we met.
- The kick-starter for the Oculus Rift VR goggles was where the inspiration came from.
- 3-4 year product development process
- You can find Smart Theater VR headset on Amazon as well as at Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Toys R Us and most major retailers.
- Joshua's main use for social media isn't his business although that's part of it. Living abroad social media allows him to keep in touch with developments in the world he left behind.
- Curating information based on his interests.
- Joshua merges his social media and work life. "Social Media is a great source of procrastination"
- He sees value in the ability to interact with the people you are with and the people who aren't there. He doesn't see social media a barrier to personal interaction.
- He makes a great point about social media training us to filter out the bad and only share the best images and experiences.
- We can curate the information we are interested in but we can also curate ourselves, what the outside world sees.
- He sees the future of VR as a platform and its impact in all areas including Augmented Reality - curating life experience itself.
Resources:
Connect
- You can find Joshua Allan and his company at www.SmartTheaterVR.com and on Facebook and Twitter.
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