The SOSV Chinaccelerator has been a successful Shanghai-based VC in China for a decade. Managing director William Bao Bean, explains to Russel Flannery of Forbes how they re-invented themselves and started to export their China strategy to other emerging economies as Orbit startups and stopped investing in China.Read More →
Tech investor William Bao Bean, managing director of Orbit startups, shares the major stories he learned from the tech revolution in China, at a Pakistan conference. “The government chooses to go out of the way of change,” he tells his audience. Why startups do not need to be squeezed between China and the US.Read More →
China’s crackdown on its tech sector in the past few years might have loosened, but the fallout is still hurting its development after the government has loosed its grip, says business analyst Shaun Rein to AP. “The crackdown was deep and cut far to the bone, probably more than the government expected it to,” said Shaun Rein,Read More →
Domestic tourism in China saw a jump, and consumer sentiment is improving more slowly after the zero-Covid policies ended, says consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok at CNBC. Brands are relucted in spending their marketing budgets. Dudarenok said that heading into 2023 and the Lunar New Year, some smaller brands had turned more conservative on China and cut their marketing budgets for the country in half.Read More →
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok looks at steps to take in 2023 for the digital marketing of your brand in China. How are we doing, what is our vision and how do we get there, these are the key questions Dudarenok dives into in her vlog.Read More →
China’s annual Single’s Day has been in 2022 relatively lackluster, and Alibaba and JD.com even did not release figures this year. Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok presents for brands new ways to measure their performance. Four metrics she explains at her vlog for brands to prepare for the next shopping events in this fast-changing consumer market.Read More →
President Xi Jinping pushes the concept of “common prosperity to diminish China’s grasp between the poor and rich. China’s 49 richest tycoons have donated US$14 billion for that purpose, according to the Hurun China Philanthropy List 2022. “The top three on the list each donated around 15 billion yuan and came from internet companies,” says Hurun’s chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf in AsiaOne.Read More →
Tech entrepreneur Winston Ma explains how tech is shaping the competition between China and the US, where China is likely to play the key part, despite the current leading role of the US.Read More →
A tech war is raging between China and the US, but financial analyst and innovation expert Winston Ma sees enough synergy between both countries to allow investments in tech to go forward, he tells at the Ben Grahan IX annual conference.Read More →
The double 11 (11/11) festival has changed from a singles event to a significant marketing happening for everybody, but especially Gen Z. Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains how companies can prepare for a successful double 11, at her vlog.Read More →
Leading VC William Bao Bean, partner at SOSV and managing director of Orbit Startups explains how he started to develop startups in Pakistan, using his Shanghai experience as a stepping stone.Read More →
China has become a leading force in consumer trends with e-commerce and fintech, first followed by other Asian nations and now the rest of the global market, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok at Martechseries. Global brands are taken notice, she writes.Read More →