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Chinese Companies Going Out, And The New Patent Wars

By on Monday, October 29th, 2012 | 1 Comment

For the past five years, the Chinese government has been encouraging Chinese companies to set up a foreign presence. In Chinese, this policy is known as 走出去 or “going out”. There are several reasons for this: Chinese companies are predominantly low on the value chain, and are mainly in manufacturing. There is comparatively little value [...]

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Useful Skills For Remote Workers

By on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Here is an article which will show you how to become a productive member of a virtual team.

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Has China Embraced An Outdated Version of Corporate Capitalism?

By on Monday, August 23rd, 2010 | 14 Comments

China’s government has limited the growth of its private business sector by not making capital readily available. It is time to change this policy and actively help it to grow.

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Let the Mapping Wars Begin!

By on Friday, June 25th, 2010 | Comments Off

As location-aware applications become more core for mobile services, especially with the launch of the new iPhone 4, location and mapping services become ever more important. The Chinese government has made clear that non-Chinese owned mapping companies will not be able to provide basic mapping services and AutoNavi is filing for an IPO. Will be [...]

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The Value of Independent Statistics for Online Media in China

By on Friday, August 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Victor Koo, CEO of Youku, recently wrote an article, Internet Measurement in China: How to Get Out of the Dark Ages, where he highlighted the major challenge for Internet companies in China: the lack of reliable metrics for performance measurement. In the article he talks about how even some VCs in China still rely on [...]

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And Now For Some Tech Talk Of the Apple Kind

By on Monday, April 14th, 2008 | Comments Off

If you are interested in the kinds of social networking applications Chinese are now using today, David Feng offers some ground-level observations in this article. I’m a great fan of first hand research and observations and David offers some excellent observations. Maybe it’s been a reaction to some of media coverage of everything which has [...]

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Paul Graham Article on Large and Small Organizations and Happiness

By on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 | 2 Comments

Paul Graham has just published an excellent article called “You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss”. He talks about many of the same ideas I have talked about on this blog, and why it’s best to work in small organizations if that is what most appeals to you, and works for your personality. This is [...]

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Asking the Right Questions Before Diving In

By on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment

A good way to find out how sharp a person is to listen carefully to the questions they ask. Smart people ask very sharp questions which cut right to the core of an issue, while less astute individuals kind of dance around the edges. Smart entrepreneurs ask the sharpest questions because often the success of [...]

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China-India Software Outsourcing Podcast

By on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | 2 Comments

I was recently interviewed by Christine Lu of the China Business Network re the issue of China-India software outsourcing which I had earlier published a white paper about. If you would like to download the white paper, you can get it here . You can download and listen to the podcast here. This article touches [...]

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Has The Tipping Point Tipped?

By on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Comments Off

Ever since its publication, The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, has captured the imagination of marketers and PR people all over the world. Basically, the book argues that ideas are spread by different groups of people, and that some have more influence than others in helping an idea to spread. For marketers and PR people, [...]

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