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‘The Founder’s Dilemmas’ Book Reveals What Founders Should Know Before Doing a Startup
[Translate] There are many resources on the market to help founders navigate through some of the most difficult life and business decisions they will ever make. However, there are not many that are based on a decade worth of research and learning. Harvard Business School Professor, Noam Wasserman’s new book, ‘The Founder’s Dilemmas’ has studied...
Korean Mobile App Tree Planet, Turns Growing Virtual Trees into Planting Real Trees
[Translate] My friend Sean Park told me about an innovative Korean app called Tree Planet that aims to re-balance the world from deforestation. Many apps are made to make money, but not many are made to save the earth. Tree Planet is a great example of how technology and smartphones can be used to impact...
South Korea, a New Social Entrepreneurship Hub of Asia
[Translate] Tech start-up incubators have sprung up across the world, in a concerted effort to uncover the next Google or Facebook and make a lot of money. But in Seoul, the government is driving a big push towards funding and incubating not just tech start-ups, but also those that have a socially good element to...
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[GMIC] Evernote’s Amazing Success Story with CEO Phil Libin
[Translate] At the G-Startup stage, Phil Libin told of his entrepreneurial journey. Evernote is a way to capture thoughts and ideas and access it from anywhere through a computer or mobile. The five year old company is now valued at US$1 billion and has over ten million users worldwide. Libin was born in Russia and...
![[INFOGRAPHIC] Is a MBA Worth It for Entrepreneurs?](http://technode.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/worth-of-an-mba-290x290.jpg "[INFOGRAPHIC] Is a MBA Worth It for Entrepreneurs?")
[INFOGRAPHIC] Is a MBA Worth It for Entrepreneurs?
[Translate] We were sent this infographic recently from Tony Shin and his design team. The infographic is intended to “to help create discussion about the value and worth of an MBA and how sometimes people are misconstrued by this notion that if you don’t get more schooling, you won’t succeed. This infographic merely sheds light...
Garage Cafe Celebrates First Birthday
[Translate] Garage Cafe, the Chinese cafe aiming at providing open office space for startups we first wrote about in last July just celebrated its first birthday on the night of April 7 with over hundred people – most of whom are currently shaping China’s Interet – crowed in its cozy milieu. The cafe which situated...
Chinese Entrepreneurs are More Positive Now
[Translate] Xinhua News, recently reported that entrepreneurs in China are more optimistic in the first quarter of 2012, compared to 2011. The entrepreneur confidence index, is a gauge of the views and opinions of the country’s entrepreneurs. The score rose to 70.2 percent in the first quarter, up 1.8 percentage points from the fourth quarter of last year. Of the 5,000 entrepreneurs surveyed, 27.3 percent said the nation’s economy is “relatively cool,” up 2.5 percentage points from the previous quarter. Nearly 67 percent of respondents indicated no change in the economy, nearly the same number as in the fourth quarter, while only 5.6 percent said the economy is “relatively hot”, according to the statement. Meanwhile, a sub-index tracking entrepreneurs’ views of the country’s current economic performance stood at 39.2 percent, staying below the good-bad gauge of 50 percent for a third straight quarter and declining 2.5 percentage points from the previous quarter. Since I meet many entrepreneurs in Beijing,...
Shajia – Let Suppliers Bid for Orders
[Translate] Usually, consumers bid for what they want to buy on the web. But on Shajia, an e-Commerce site, incubated by Innovation Works, it is the suppliers bidding for orders of mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, and other consumer electronics. The idea came from the company’s founder, Peng Lin. He had worked for Tsinghua Tongfang,...
Stock Radar – a Stock Analyzing Tool
[Translate] I met Feng Yue, founder of Stock Radar at the ChinaBang conference. The 30-year-old entrepreneur was one of the exhibitors at the event. He demonstrated a stock analyzing app, Stock Radar. Stock trading related tools are rather uncommon among startups in Beijing. I was intrigued and met him the following Monday at his office...
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[CHINABANG] Sarah Lacy Encourages Chinese Start-ups and Investors to Take China to the Next Level
[Translate] Former Senior Editor at TechCrunch and now Founder, CEO and Chief Editor at PandoDaily, Sarah Lacy generously took some time to send a message to us at our ChinaBang event last weekend. Since Lacy has an affinity with the Chinese start-up scene. She was the lead advocate in creating and making TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing...
Early Tencent member develop iTools
[Translate] Recently, I met an early member of Tencent. His name is Feng Linyi, but most people call him, Night Cat, his nickname. He currently is the CTO of Think Speed Group, a company he founded with a few of his friends, including another early Tencent member, Kung Hoising. Early days in Tencent Night Cat...
Should China’s Best School’s Copy Stanford’s FounderSoup and Create FounderHotpot?
[Translate] Last week on TechCrunch I read about a start-up program called FounderSoup run by Stanford’s Computer Science department and backed by Andreessen Horowitz. FounderSoup is an event that allows current students to pitch their idea, with the goal of attracting a co-founder. What better place to find a co-founder than Stanford; the epitome of...
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