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An Apparel Company Manufacturing in China Grows with its Values

February 14, 2012 by Jason Simms
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Five years ago, Jasmine Fullman's husband, Mike, was a marketing director for a technology company. She was a stay-at-home mom, but began to notice black bags of scrap materials outside of textile factories and decided to design some clutches that could be made from the fragments she found. “It was huge for me as an artist living there where you can have any kind of a sample made within 24 hours,” she says. [read more]

Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs are Abandoning America

April 28, 2011 by Daniel Kehrer
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In years past, millions of smart, skilled immigrant entrepreneurs – including many from the world’s two most populous countries, China and India – came to the U.S. to get educated and start their own businesses.  Now the turnstiles are rotating the other way.  New research just revealed by the entrepreneurship experts at the... [read more]

Microblogging in China Demystified: Five Differences Between Sina Weibo and Twitter

March 4, 2011 by Gaurav Mishra
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My Eastwei MSL colleagues Johan Bjorksten, Stephy Liu and Charlotta Lagerdahl have written an insightful whitepaper on microblogging in China (PDF). Stephy also wrote an article for Campaign Asia explaining how Sina Weibo in China is different from Twitter: Sina Weibo is integrated with the very popular Sina portal and blogging platform... [read more]

Competing Against Global Demographic Trends

January 21, 2011 by Manju Bansal
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At the end of December 2010, the US Census Bureau released its update indicating that the total population of the country was now about 309 Million, up 9.7% since the last count in the year 2000. Most of the news outlets focused on a couple of themes (a) the political rise of Hispanics (accounting for 51% of the population growth in the... [read more]

Doing Business in China: ‘Going Global’ Profiles Jihong Sanderson – Top Innovative China Brand Woman

June 1, 2010 by Margot Heiligman
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In ‘Going Global’ the series focuses on what it takes for small and mid-sized businesses to leap into new markets, achieve global reach, and potentially improve current business processes and outcomes by extending beyond domestic boundaries for both scale and expertise.   Bird's Nest Stadium, China, [photo by Andrey... [read more]

The Business Climate in China

March 12, 2010 by Jeff Nolan
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I just spent a week and a half in southern China visiting a range of manufacturing facilities and meeting with senior executives, and the learnings were significant, some of which I want to share with you today. This is the kind of information that is really challenging to get from analysts and journalists simply because analysts and... [read more]

Find Your Customer in Asia’s Social Set: How Can You Get the Buzz for your Brand in Asia?

November 12, 2009 by Margot Heiligman
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Social Networking Asia, What could be more complex?  It is so diverse country to country.  And since social networks are a reflection of culture, and cultural nuances are dynamic in nature, how is a marketing strategist able to get ahead of the trends swiftly enough to make inroads? Although Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia,... [read more]

#13: Here's a thought...

June 14, 2009 by BrianRoger
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An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on MyVenturePad reveals the following nuggets:Aha!The big aha of the social web is the democratization of content, both creating and sharing it. The consumers to whom we want to sell have become producers, or so the liturgy goes, who insist on participating in our businesses.... [read more]

Steven Noble, Forrester Research: Interview

March 19, 2009 by Des Walsh
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One of the best things to happen last year for research on social media in my part of the world - i.e. Australasia and more broadly the Asia-Pacific - was the Forrester Research appointment of Steven Noble as a Senior Analyst. As well as being a very clear and disciplined thinker, Steve is a blogger - both as one of the worldwide group... [read more]

The Future in 5 Minutes

March 16, 2009 by Tim Berry
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Consider these predictions. They're all based on identifiable trends. Ask yourself how this affects you, your business, and your business future:In 10 years, the number one English-speaking country in the world will be China. By 2011, 90% of all the engineers in the world will live in Asia.In 20 years, two thirds of the world's middle... [read more]

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