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Why The Next Wave of China Startups Will Be Based Outside China

By on Thursday, November 1st, 2012 | 11 Comments

Most business people think that having a presence in China to reach the Chinese market is necessary. Not necessarily.

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China Telecom Shapes Up As Leading China Mobile Competitor

By on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | Comments Off

In an earlier article, I talked about my take on the telecom shakeup in China in May. Three months after, it looks more like China Mobile is being slapped down by the State Council for growing too big too fast and being overly aggressive and dominant in the growing Chinese mobile market, which is now [...]

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Chinese-Language Search Grows, and the Mobile Internet…

By on Monday, January 28th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Everything else being equal, it is safe to assume that human language-specific search should closely map to populations. For example, the US population is 300M, Canada’s is about 30M, the UK is about 60M, and Australia is about 15M and New Zealand is about 4M. These are the main English-speaking populations, and they total about [...]

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Biz Opportunity: Rolling Up and Franchising China’s Internet Cafes

By on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 | 15 Comments

In my previous post, I talked about the dark side of China’s Internet cafes. I was surprised at how quickly I got responses to the posting; there were more than six comments in less than two hours. Now, I would like to talk about a business opportunity in China’s Internet cafes. One of the biggest [...]

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Digging Deeper About China’s Internet Usage Data

By on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 | 46 Comments

Jeremiah Owyang has published a good report for beginners who know nothing about China’s internet market. I questioned the wisdom of going to Hong Kong to cover the Chinese Internet; to me it seemed like visiting Toronto to understand the UK market. However, he does have some good takeaways for people just starting out in [...]

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