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6 Ways To Clear Hurdles As An Entrepreneur

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The founder of Joyo.com (which eventually became Amazon China ), now CEO of China e-commerce site DHGate , says she’s flooded with correspondence from people telling her how her business helped them break barriers and realize their dreams. Wang founded DHGate when no one in China understood the value of e-commerce.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

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of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. That’s the good news.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# But you need to think in terms of broader distribution. or “tell us what you’re doing about location-based services?&# ).

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. That world is called China. Even in China. Lock users into proprietary rights management, distribution or consumption models? Our view then (kind of obvious now) was that software would be consumed the way that consumer Internet sites were back then.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.