YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

A bank wire is not always a convenient mode of payment, especially for customers in China who do not use internet banking. If the party knows they will be pestered by automated emails, they are more likely to keep your receivable at the top of their mind. Offer multiple payment options. Automated reminders. Collection methods.

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Singapore Asia Management China 176

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sure, it may be fun to imagine having the population of China as customers, but let’s keep things realistic! Are you planning on communicating daily via email, Slack or another platform? Keep it straightforward, understandable and engaging for maximum results. First off, determine your primary means of contact.

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Technical Review Business Plan America Hiring 112

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I run a consultancy where I advise organisations on commissioning artists – often within new build projects but also exhibitions and cultural strategy across the UK and China. This is a good example of how you can be busily working away in China. When it comes to working in China, my five top tips would be: RELATIONSHIPS MATTER.

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China Curation Startup Hosting 65

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

There’s a good chance I’ve missed something — if you feel that way, by all means, please share your point of view on Twitter (or email) and link to the post. China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China. During the opening address, it was noted that China and the rest of Asia was poised to leapfrog their Western counterparts’ several generations of IT hardware and software, and moving more directly to mobile and service-based models. Your Security is Only As Strong as Its Weakest Link.

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Asia Cloud Software Review China 200

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If your small business will have elements of e-commerce, do put some thought towards website security; this becomes even more important a consideration with regards to customer data that your website might be collecting such as email addresses, phone numbers and credit card information.

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Asia Mobile China Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

When we went to meet Hillary Clinton in China he wore a t-shirt and sandals. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. Brawling (metaphorically). I doubt he owns an item of clothes worth more than $20. Not the Dave I know.

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China Incubator Email Portfolio 309

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). Sounds harsh but when you think about it that’s what email really is.

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China Asia Email Technical Review 374

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In the very beginning focus on attracting visitors to your site for email collection, with the goal being to build an email database of interested, qualified candidates that can convert to sales when your campaign launches. The biggest driver of success is also the hardest to measure. Don’t overlook “hidden” product costs.

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Campaign San Francisco Technical Review Flash 122

VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

A lot of the world of work is based around text: documents, email, content, media. As Justine’s timeline shows, the big players in this space are the large tech platforms: Google, Meta, Nvidia in the US and in China, Bytedance, Alibaba and Baidu. Visual generative AI made strides as well.

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Generative AI Video Intellectual Property Artificial Inteligence 139

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I find things like the Johns Hopkins CSSE data set and coronavirus map to be much more interesting than these articles so I sent an email out to our hardware companies last night to see what they were hearing and thinking to collect some quantitative data from startups. Another problem at this point is movement into and out of China.

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China Startup Global Web 141

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This budget definition includes website development and content, email marketing, search engine optimization, online advertising, social media community management and advertising, amongst others. Budget constraint is also a key factor in not being able to get the right skilled talent.

Singapore 167

Singapore Asia Marketing India 167

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2020

You are judged by what you write – from business docs and resumes to emails, school papers, social media posts, and even dating profiles. This tool deserves its place among the best Google Chrome extensions available for users in 2020. If English is not your native language, even small mistakes can make a bad impression.

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SEO South Africa Hungary Poland 264

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

Pakistan 150

Pakistan Technical Review Iran Russia 150

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 18, 2011

Because my partner and I lived in different countries, we decided to do our sampling and production in Hong Kong and China. Since then, I have been to China and Hong Kong more times than I can remember. Production In China Basing all sampling and production in China made sense given the special characteristics of our products.

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China Los Angeles Product South America 107

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

An email is a unique identifier. The email field is straightforward. Seeing something irrelevant is not reassuring—especially Chinese text when you’re not in China. The next few steps are about email verification. After I’ve entered my email, password, and store name, the segmentation starts: The “Are you already selling?”

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Affiliate Email Technical Review Registration Rights 116

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Anything from the company’s website and brochures to business cards and email campaigns should be professionally translated by an agency specialising in business translation services. China, one of the fastest growing markets in the world has a rather specific audience. Here, a great attention is paid to symbolism and culture.

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Asia Social Media China Technical Review 100

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

China has one-fifth of the world’s population. The map above divides the world into five regions, each with the same population as China. The Impact of Gmail’s New Tabs Feature on Email Read Rates | MarketingProfs – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Avoid email templates like the plague. Those contacts are already rubbed raw by unsolicited emails and phone calls. For example, Alibaba was called “the amazon.com of China.” Have an extremely good quick video or a one-page summary and send that as the follow-on email when you talk with a VC or get an introduction.

Software Review 124

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Elevator Pitch 124

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

Keeping up with news is a struggle for the enterprise, and most still rely on individuals to find stories on their own and share them via email. A news curation dashboard for teams and organizations. Think of it as a Google Reader for your organization. Material Wrld is an exclusive online fashion community for shoppable personal closets.

Curation 114

Curation Japan Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 114

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. There’s powerful segmentation, email autoresponders that are ready to go, great reporting. It seems crazy in Seattle, but it doesn’t seem crazy in China at all.

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China New York City New York Technical Review 64

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Derek Capo , Next Step China. . In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab , a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library and email lessons. . Agencies excel at one-time projects.

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Hiring Developer Startup LLC 145

Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Cybercrime encompasses phishing attacks , stealing credentials, monetary fraud, ransomware campaigns, email spam, malware, and more. These organizations have warned organizations about scammers that have been engaging in phishing attacks on emails and social media that are related to coronavirus.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

For example, suppose that a corporation designed a widget and outsourced manufacturing of the product to a plant in China. Therefore, these other companies looked for manufacturers in China, replicated the design, and then added an offer on Amazon claiming that they also provide the same product.

Intellectual Property 104

Intellectual Property China Widget Security 104

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Millennials in China, because of Internet restrictions and preferences, use a wider variety of local social networking sites with Webio and Youku the most popular. As for Internet use, email, surfing and searching for information are the most popular uses for computers and mobile phones.

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United Arab Emirates Asia South Africa Indonesia 219

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

in India and China) The region has an exceptional talent pool: Eastern Europe was the first country to send a man into space in 1961 and has a very strong network of universities. Here are a few examples: 247B emails are sent every day (and the scary bit is that 80% is spam!) mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs.

Czech Republic 99

Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] It’s easy to find someone to quote a size of market estimate. The “Gloves in China” syndrome. We call that the “gloves in China” syndrome when analyzing assumptions within business plans. My story of creating a number for market size.

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China Metrics Business Plan Demand 62

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

our product is manufactured in Shenzhen, China … along with most of the high-tech electronics in the world, so we had to locate a factory, we had to find the right partner to build this product and work with us …. Certain big brands and large companies that would never return my phone calls were all of a sudden emailing us saying, “Hi.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2017

When I reached out to long time friends at SVB, including Pamela Aldsworth and John China, they immediately were supportive of the idea of Global EIR. Email me and let’s talk about how to partner together in this work. The post Global EIR and Silicon Valley Bank Funding Match appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Silicon Valley Matching Global Boston 187

Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2017

” Ryan and I have been trading emails like this with Eric, the CEO of Mapbox, talking strategy around the SDK since last Summer when Pokemon Go launched. Using our traffic endpoint, we see all the walking paths in the park, so when you land the ship, it spins so the door faces the paths where people walk.”

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API China Green Matching 152

ithacaVC

MARCH 20, 2020

I wrote an email yesterday to someone that one “light” from yesterday was that China had reported no new infections overnight. Tomas Pueyo , who is a leader at Course Hero, has been quite prolific in his analysis of the virus and what/why we need to do do to address it. A fact-based presentation.

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China Email Startup 67

BeyondVC

APRIL 28, 2005

I recently caught up with my friend Derek Sulger, founder of Linktone (Nasdaq: LTON) and current founder and CFO of Smartpay , a Paypal-like play in China (I really like what Derek is doing with this one-no credit in China, use the mobile phones for debiting from bank accounts). His thoughts make a ton of sense.

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Venture Capital China Intellectual Property IP 60

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Advocates for the feature then ran a simple experiment by emailing a number of customers, asking them if they were interested in asking and answering questions to and from other customers, and directing them to a mockup website. The classic example of this is Amazon’s customer Q&A feature. I also took on some key strategic projects.

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Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 42

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These files can include storage files for email storage and data sharing files. For example, China has strict Internet access laws. One of the most important reasons to have a VPN is to minimize data sharing between colleagues, business associates and other people outside your business entity.

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Networking Small Business IP Security 104

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

When you use the internet, it doesn’t matter if you’re calling someone down the road or in China; it’s free both ways. Turn Your Mail into Emails. If you use the best virtual mailbox solution , you can have your mail forwarded to you via email. Think Outside the Social Media Box.

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Social Media Startup China Analytics 100