Although only a few hours flight from Beijing, Taiwan has a very different start-up environment. With a population of 23 million, Taiwan has often been labelled too small to have a start-up business that makes an impact on the world stage. Interestingly though, is the fact that there are many Taiwanese entrepreneurs who have been […]
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Your Web Business Targeting at Chinese University Students? Read this 10 Shocking Stats
[Thanks to our reader Tim Handorf from bestcollegesonline who sent me this tip. It is nothing about tech, but when I read through the original post, I found it’s quite interesting. At least for people who are doing or want to do web business with the target at Chinese university students, the following 10 points […]
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MobileMonday Beijing Event: LBS New Opportunities
First of all,, we are quite exciting to announce that TechNode is now official partner of MobileMonday Beijing. We will be reporting & co-organizing MobileMonday Beijing events through 2011. And, on behalf of MobileMonday Beijing, we have the honor to invite you to its first event in 2011. The topic is set to one of […]
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Energetic Entrepreneurs in China, Ed Tsai from DCM VC
I met Ed about a month ago through a friend who has a start-up, and thought he was a pretty cool guy. Ed is a Senior Associate at DCM and is currently spending time in their Beijing office. DCM has a US$2bn fund and works across US, China and Japan. As part of our coverage […]
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Renren working on Quora-like query service
Chinese leading social network, Renren, is working on a Quora-like question-and-answer service and will launch it soon, said an industry insider. Given Chinese internet companies will clone whatever popular in the Sillicon valley, this is only a matter of time. Quora’s online community is famous because it includes such accomplished people as Marc Andreessen, Dustin […]
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Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom's interview in Asia Times
I have finally tidied up my notes on Niklas’ interview and wrote a proper article. Here is the article printed in Asia Times, after professionally edited by their editorial team based in Thailand. Skype head Zennstrom eyes China start-ups Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, who sold his innovative Internet phone-call business to eBay in 2005, is […]
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HongKong Impression I – a Nice Place for VCs for Holiday Not for Investment?
When we talk about web startups, we usually care about two things at the beginning, the ideas and the money. And most likely creative ideas would not make money at early stage, so we need money to grow the ideas quickly. HongKong, if we call it the center of venture capital in Asia, most of […]
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The Current Status of Chinese Social Networks, RenRen Explains
Social Networks is taking the lead place in Chinese digital life, said by Jeffery Zheng, the general manager of RenRen, East China region at Social Media Week HongKong. The following chart given by Jeffery illustrates the user growth rate in each sector of Chinese web service. Although the Music, News and Search take the top […]
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Why Alibaba’s B2B market raise its price ?
Recently, I was discussing with a friend about Alibaba’s B2B market. While its new logistic platform is just a “joke” (see my earlier posting: Alibaba’s US$4.5 billion investment in logistic – just a plan only! ), its decision to raise membership fee can be a real driver to boost its bottom line. It is just […]
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Fun, Fun, Fun! Says PopCap developer Roy Liu
Plants vs. Zombies is a highly successful tower defense game from the highly acclaimed casual game developer, PopCap. If you haven’t heard of it before, the aim of the game is to kill attacking creepy zombies walking across your lawn with an array of amazing plants. Some of the plants are pea shooters that spit […]