Mar 8, 2009
Calvin Chin is the CEO of Qifang.cn – a Chinese student finance and support website getting the support of both business and government. He was previously CEO at Two Contradictory Ideas and worked in Shanghai for Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, which we all agree should be just known as SMIC. Chin was born in Michigan
Jul 27, 2008
Interesting posting by Joi Ito about why companies need a local partner in Japan. His examples: eBay went it alone and had to leave and now don’t exist in Japan having lost net auctions to Yahoo Japan and Rakuten. Friendster and now Facebook who have launched “localized versions” are not getting traction. Mixi, the Orkut
Jul 15, 2008
An A330 pilot and entrepreneur, Nick Swanson started the Hong Kong-based Internet radio station HKGFM in July 2007 out of frustration with the offering over the airwaves.
Jun 30, 2008
When I pitched this business idea about a week ago in a blog post, I received numerous emails of encouragement and some with helpful suggestions. This is a refined version of the business plan presented on video and set to drumbeat. Would you want this service?
Jun 26, 2008
Vivek Wadhwa is a Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University who specializes in studying innovation in business. He was formerly a tech entrepreneur who founded two tech companies. His studies, published at Globalization Research, have included looking at the level of innovation in China, the relative gap
Jun 24, 2008
While William Bao Bean said in a recent interview that we should Expect More Digital Garages in China, Vivek Wadhwa disagrees, asserting that China is not innovating and has still has not moved beyond copycat status. “China is simply unable to innovate,” said Wadhwa, a Harvard fellow and Duke University professor. A former technology entrepreneur,
Jun 17, 2008
Long belittled for ripping off Silicon Valley’s successes pixel-for-pixel, China’s web entrepreneurs are now starting innovate, argues William Bao Bean, former analyst at Deutsche Bank and now partner at Softbank China and India Holdings. Why? 1- Ecosystem – For the first time China now has the large crop of bloggers, VCs and entrepreneurs necessary for
Jun 13, 2008
Had a great day hanging out with entrepreneur Inma Martinez this Sunday. In addition to being one of the few people I know with a favorite pet dinosaur, Inma founded and CEO-ed a number of tech start-ups, often in relation with 3i. Time magazine named her one of the top people in European technology and
Jun 12, 2008
The Business case for selling a new type of digital TV box in Taiwan Having left journalism to take up business development with one of Asia’s more successful serial entrepreneurs, I’m always on the lookout for new business opportunities. This idea strikes me as quite complex to accomplish alone, but too compelling to drop. For
Jun 9, 2008
Alexis Bonte, who today announced a 550,000 euro angel investor round of funding for eRepublik, has a unique reversed-entry strategy for his online strategy game. Players in eRepublik collaborate to develop their own countries. Described as a Massive Online Social Strategy Game, all citizens (active users) are real people who interact with each other as
May 31, 2008
Inma Martinez founded and CEO-ed a number of tech start-ups, often in relation with 3i. Time magazine named her one of the top people in European technology and she is currently business development strategist at Associated Northcliffe Digital.
May 13, 2008
Three veteran tech entrepreneurs with global experience – Martin Varsavsky, Loic Le Meur and Joi Ito – discuss with me whether it is better to start a tech company in the US, Europe or Asia. All three have strong links to Silicon Valley, but only Loic is currently launching a company there. Loic moved from
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
