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Bold Predictions For China Tech Over Next Decade

By on Monday, July 19th, 2010 | 3 Comments

During the next decade, we will find out if China can become rich, on a sustained basis, before it grows old. This has special implications for tech investment over the next decade.

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The PR Problem for Chinese Online Public Relations Firms

By on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | 11 Comments

Several days ago, Sam Flemming of CIC, a Shanghai-based online reputation management company pointed me to a news article on Business Week called “Inside The War Against China’s Blogs”. The article specifically highlighted a company called Daqi.com (in Chinese the name means “Big Flag” which has a certain nationalistic appeal), and cited a case in [...]

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What’s Wrong with C2C?

By on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, Twitterdom in China was on fire with the news, first published on TechCrunch, that Facebook clone Xiaonei had raised US$430M from Softbank, which is huge, even by current Web 2.0 bubble standards. Immediately on Twitter, there was almost an uproar, especially from users in Taiwan, who said that it was ridiculous that a Facebook [...]

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China Marketing: Think Deep, Not Big, and Add A Twist

By on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments

One of the things which I frequently hear from first-time visitors to China is that “It is so big!” Sometimes, I hear this even from Texans, an American state which takes pride in being bigger than almost any other state, with the exception of Alaska. Westerners are not the only ones to fall victim to [...]

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What’s Wrong with China’s Internet Developers?

By on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 | 9 Comments

In the course of my work, I’m often asked, based on my experience living and working in China, “What’s wrong with China’s Internet developers?” Unfortunately, I have never attacked the problem in a systematic way and organized my thoughts, even though I should. Today, I was visiting the Signals vs. Noise website which is maintained [...]

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