Everywhere governments are looking for ways to encourage innovations. For super-innovator William Bao Bean the solution is pretty simple: get out of the way. And give visas where possible. Compensating VC for possible losses, like Shanghai wants to do, is certainly the wrong way. Singapore on the other hand does a good job.Read More →
Ann Rutledge, an acknowledged expert on dynamic structured credit modeling tools, has joined the China Speakers Bureau.Read More →
China has seen a wave of new internet companies, actually succeeding. A surprise after Google, Facebook, Twitter saw them locked out. Business analyst Ben Cavender tells in Quartz what the trick is: complying with the Chinese government. Names? Evernote. LinkedIn. Uber.Read More →
The longstanding ban on the sale of video game consoles and games to Chinese consumers might be loosened at the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, but that does not mean everything goes, warns lawyer Mark Schaub in Mondaq, although the new opportunities prevail. Read More →
Shaun Rein, one of the leading voices on China´s economic change, will be in the United States, most of July. That means he will be available for lower costs for audiences in the US. He is the author of The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia and quoted regularly by mainstream media.Read More →
Since William Bao Bean took on a new role as managing director of ChinaAccelerator early 2015, he also stepped into the limelight in a rather public role, compared to his earlier VC-activities. And people have noticed that change, as the demand for William as a speaker has spiked over the past few months.Read More →
Raving reviews are coming in from Shaun Rein´s The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia, this time from the Financial Times. “An intriguing book, with many interesting anecdotes, mini-case studies, and interviews.”Read More →
As their professional life develops, China´s Young Urban Professionals, are looking for food products that make their lives easier, says retail analyst Ben Cavender in the China Daily. Products like Barilla´s Italian pasta´s are one of them, when they play their cards right.Read More →
Premier Li Keqiang will visit Germany this week with the largest business delegation ever. Business analyst Shaun Rein explains why China has a rather weak economy, and needs Europe for support. With some advise on German business how to treat Chinese competitors.Read More →
VC William Bao Bean started as managing director of ChinaAccelerator, one of China´s most active breeding place for startups. ChinaAccelerator offers an international bridge for those mostly overlooked starting, smaller tech firms, he tells TechinAsia.Read More →
China is fast becoming an innovative economy, and one of the key changes is the improved climate for start-ups, tells author Shaun Rein of The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia. Especially in mobile, China is leading, he tells Knowledge CKGSB.Read More →
Two years after author Shaun Rein published his book The End of Cheap China, the country´s manufacturers start feeling the pain from export moving to cheaper countries. This painful adjustment might take another 3-5 years, he tells Bloomberg.Read More →