I’m not much of a prophet (if I was, my portfolio would be considerably larger), but I’m going to go out on a limb and make some predictions regarding 2013. Come January 1st 2014, you all have a right to heckle me for being so terribly wrong. (This should have gone up yesterday, but I’d just flown back from HCMC and didn’t feel like writing.)
Crystal Ball 2013
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Categories : China, Consulting, David Brin, Economics, Finance, Neal Stephenson, Politics, Science Fiction, The Future
Why China Will Eat Your IT Company For Lunch: The Kingdom of Mao Bell, Two Decades Later
21 11 2012“It works in the West, the Chinese must want my service!”
“I can outperform a Chinese competitor. I am smarter than they are and have more money.”
“My product is globally accepted, the government won’t have a problem.”
Famous last words, says Hult guest professor and e-business entrepreneur Toine Rooijmans. The Chinese ecommerce space is famously littered with the corpses of foreign companies that thought they had it figured out, only to find themselves a smear on the pavement of China’s crowded information superhighway. And we’re not talking about small-time entrepreneurs here- eBay, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Groupon and, most notoriously, Google, have all found themselves shut out of- or crushed by- the Chinese market.
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Categories : China, eBusiness, Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Hult, Neal Stephenson, Politics, Science Fiction
