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Sean Ellis on Growth Hacking: Focus on a number related to your value to customers

November 7, 2018 By Liu Sha

What is the most important thing for a startup? Growing your business by focusing on the value to the customer is the answer given by Sean Ellis, founder and CEO of GrowthHackers, a service that helps 200,000 members with their growth strategy. According to Ellis, “growth hacking” is more than a buzzword in Silicon Valley—it’s a marketing strategy with actionable methods that prioritize business growth.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Marketing, Strategy Tagged With: Growth hacking, Startups

UISEE Finds a Shortcut for Driverless Cars

June 19, 2017 By Liu Sha

As people imagine the future of transportation, the first thing they think of is driverless cars. There are still many questions to consider, however, and not just at the level of personal safety. How will transportation networks adapt? What about laws and regulations? What will be the impact on logistics and employment? Many technology firms and automakers have had their prototypes, but none which could be commercialized for public use. Wu Gansha, a veteran engineer and former director of Intel Labs China, suggests a rapid way to commercialize driverless cars. He claims that the car produced by his startup will commercialize in two years.

Filed Under: All Articles, Automobile Industry, Conversations, Technology, The Chinapreneurs Tagged With: Automobiles, Driverless Car, Startups, Technology

No Easy Rides: DCM Ventures’ Ramon Zeng on How Chinese Startups Manage to Thrive

March 29, 2017 By Deng Yuanyuan, Liu Sha

The Chinese internet industry has developed at an amazing speed with a number of tech firms becoming “unicorns” worldwide. A major force behind those fast-growing companies and young CEOs is the venture capital firms who play a crucial role in spotting and supporting innovative models. Over the past 10 years, VC has evolved from a non-mainstream form of finance to one of the hottest areas in the Middle Kingdom. Ramon Zeng, with a number of successful investments in “unicorns”, talks about his observation of the industry and what the next big trend will be.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Entrepreneurship Tagged With: E-Commerce in China, Intellectual Property, O2O, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital

The VR Kingdom: Is the Virtual Reality Boom in China the Real Thing?

March 22, 2017 By Matthew Fulco

Chinese people love to try new technologies. Over the past year, virtual reality exploded across the country, attracting attention as well as investment from people who see a potential wave of the future: Analysts predict that China’s VR market will be worth $8.5 billion by 2020. But the real-world business of VR, which surged largely on the back of heavy investment, is less solid than it could be. Some people expect the technology to bring revolutionary changes to many industries like gaming, films and shopping but currently a huge portion of the VR market is still for video games and the business model is not yet solidly defined.

Filed Under: All Articles, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Startups, Technology, Virtual Reality, VR

Chinese Tech Startups: The Great Idea Bubble

November 7, 2016 By Matthew Fulco

One of the topics favored most by Chinese tech people is which city, or region, in China will become the next “Silicon Valley”. While observers have not gotten bored of guessing which one will be the next “unicorn” company, those who are really in startup companies have realized the fact that the China startup scene has peaked: many companies have died, using up the money given by investors but keeping no loyal users at all. Read our story about China’s startup bubbles and find how these bubbles, blown up by ambitious yet empty ideas, business plans and investors’ ignorance, finally fall and burst.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Know China, Technology Tagged With: Start-ups, Startups

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