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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Whenever I visit the US, one question mobile entrepreneurs always ask me is ‘How can my startup break into China?’. The biggest mistake most US entrepreneurs make right off the bat is in thinking of China as one market. The right partners.

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. Emerging Markets: Five Markets To Watch.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. In the U.S.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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The Most Important (and Often Overlooked) Success Factor in Emerging Companies

Growthink Blog

public stock market long-term woes would be comical if they weren’t so tragic. We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. and the “West” to the BIC – Brazil, India, and China – and their brethren.

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The Most Important (and Often Overlooked) Success Factor in Angel Investing

Growthink Blog

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. public markets at least, the last 11 years have represented a “reset” of values that had gotten way ahead of themselves in the 80’s and 90’s. For the U.S.

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New Book by Professor Mannie Manhong Liu and Pascal Levensohn– Venture Capital: Theory and Practice, published by the University of International Business and Economics Press, Beijing

Pascal's View

I never expected to have my first book published in China, much less in Mandarin, but that goes to show how much the world continues to change. Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. In 2006, China’s total venture capital investment reached $1.78