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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. New Rules for China. All the usual caveats apply. business models.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. New Rules for China. All the usual caveats apply. business models.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Finding: Sales Oriented companies tend to start and do well regionally and not globally] E.G. Brandtology, Stream Media (Movend), FlightOffice, Identifi etc. Most if not all Enterprise companies are sales oriented. Consumer Facing B2C.

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Starcount.com: Charting The Stars In Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Measuring Your Popularity On Social Media. Starcount , he explains as he demonstrates the site via his laptop projected on a large TV screen, is a social media measurement engine that aggregates and measures social media popularity on a global and local scale across any genre. The interview proper begins.

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Instead of Asking AI Companies to ‘SLOW DOWN’ We Should Encourage Them to Move Even Faster

Hunter Walker

For example, model owners must: Transparency : for a given publicly available URL or submitted piece of media, to query whether the top level domain is included in the training set of the model. And some sort of transparency statistics on these issues in aggregate. Whatcha think?

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang. Uber lost its battle in China to Didi Chuxing, a battle that allegedly cost them over 2 billion. You can find Samar on Twitter and LinkedIn. .

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30).

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