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

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But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. 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?&# It came to me. They may not.

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

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And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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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. Over time brands will realize that marketing into a closed system isn’t good for their long-term customer relationships. Market forces win. Watch the market rally around Android. As was Microsoft.

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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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Loading… Markets. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Welcome, Logout. My Journal.

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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. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? That’s the good news.