Why I keep on buying Chinese shares – Jim Rogers
2020-12-28
Singapore-based super-investor Jim Rogers explains at the Sixth Tone why he bets on Chinese shares to improve his fortunes.Read More →
Fintech: a fast-moving subject – Sara Hsu
2020-12-21
Financial analyst Sara Hsu discusses her book China’s fintech explosion, at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and how this fast-moving subject she captured in her book.Read More →
From teenage Chinese girls to Donald Trump: the Tiktok story -Matthew Brennan
2020-12-14
China internet guru Matthew Brennan summarizes his bestseller Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance and explains how Tiktok developed from a successful domestic tool for millennials into a short-video platform that even caught the attention from US President Donald Trump.Read More →
What is the reason for Tiktok’s success? – Matthew Brennan
2020-12-07
Bytedance’s Tiktok is a very successful global video-platform, and one of the few with a background in China. China internet watcher Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance, explains what makes Tiktok so successful. Getting feedback from its users is one of the key differences with other platforms, he tells in Explica.Read More →
The retail ecosystem: China’s biggest change – Ashley Dudarenok
2020-12-01
China’s biggest change over the past two years has been the development of its retail ecosystem, says marketing veteran Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog. Not only by thinking it out, but by implementing a change that has affected retail profoundly.Read More →
The Tiktok playbook – Matthew Brennan
2020-11-19
Douyin – the Chinese name of Tiktok – became a runaway success as a short-video platform in China. Tech watcher Matthew Brennan looks in his book ‘Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance’ at the playbook Bytedance used for their lift-off before they took the platform global. An excerpt from Techcrunch.Read More →
China believes it will produce the alternative for Tesla – Rupert Hoogewerf
2020-11-16
China’s electric car makers saw their value rise over the past post-corona months, as they believe they can produce an alternative for US-car maker Tesla, says Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman of the Hurun China rich list to the South China Morning Post. Read More →
How TikTok became a runaway success in the US – Matthew Brennan
2020-11-10
Most Chinese tech companies tried to figure out what US consumers wanted before they entered the market, but Bytedance did not care when it launched Tiktok in 2018, says internet veteran Matthew Brennan in his book “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance.” The lack of strategy almost backfired, but after some hiccups, the company became a runaway success, Brennan writes in an excerpt in Technode.Read More →
New trends for IT startups – William Bao Bean
2020-11-09
Seasoned Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean, general partner at SOSV and managing director of Chinaccelerator and MOX, sits down with Asian Pioneers to discuss his background, upbringing, and early career. In this snippet: what are the new trends in his industry, biotech and AI?Read More →
How China proved to be a winner in innovation – Shaun Rein
2020-11-02
Only half a decade ago Silicon Valley thought China becoming a force of innovation was preposterous. Now, under Trump, China has proved them wrong, says business analyst Shaun Rein in a wide-ranging interview with state paper Global Times. Also: China’s successful fight against Covid-19 and decoupling economies.Read More →
Learning how to fail in China – William Bao Bean
2020-10-28
Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean explains that entering a new market means leaving behind the experience to collected in the past, leave behind your cultural baggage, and learn from your mistakes. William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV – The Accelerator VC – the #2 most active angel and seed-stage investors in the world 2019 with US$700m under management.Read More →
How COVID-19 accelerated live-streaming and changed online retail sales – Ashley Dudarenok
2020-10-19
COVID-19 has changed life for sales professionals, says marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok. The early coronavirus crisis in China has accelerated online retail with live streaming at its core and will do so also as the rest of the world comes out of the corona crisis.Read More →