by Iván Fanego | Dec 14, 2015 | China |
We were with China Accelerator in Shanghai, the main startup accelerator in China, where we had the opportunity of talking to Todd Embley, its Program Director. A brief introduction about startup accelerators: they… Accelerate. In exchange of a stake in the startup...
by Iván Fanego | Dec 5, 2015 | China |
Zhou Wei is one of those people who have things pretty clear. 41, he studied International Law in Beijing and at the London School of Economics. In 2000 he began working in strategic consulting at the prestigious Roland Berger in China. Before entering in the startup...
by Tamara Lucas | Nov 28, 2015 | China |
If we talk about “smart products”, cars – along with smart watches – could be widely accepted by the mainstream public. News about the Google car or about the car that already made autonomously the Vigo-Madrid route are examples of this trend....
by Tamara Lucas | Nov 15, 2015 | China
To understand the existing ecosystem in China in terms of tech disruption, the first thing to understand is the BAT or, as it was called by the Wall Street Journal, the Kingmakers of China’s Internet. China’s Internet is now divided into three powerful kingdoms:...
by Iván Fanego | Nov 8, 2015 | China |
We are not in the business of building games for 100 days, but building a brand for 100 years When we started 2geeks1city one of the things we wanted was to have the chance of meeting interesting and passionate people. We just finished our first month and we can say...
by Tamara Lucas | Nov 6, 2015 | China |
“20 years ago was my first time in China, over the years I have witnessed the rapid economic development of China. It has been very shocking” Eric Schmidt With these words Eric Schmidt began his talk at the TechCrunch Beijing 2015. I have to say that I was not...
by Iván Fanego | Nov 3, 2015 | China |
Yesterday we spent the day in the TechCrunch event in Beijing: Discover the Dragon’s Web. Chinese Internet is not very well known in western countries. Most of us have a biased or partial perception and (I think) we are not really conscious of the sofistication of...
by Iván Fanego | Oct 29, 2015 | China |
We have been in China two weeks and we have to say it is more than we expected. Bigger, more modern, more developed and… More different. As some of you know (and we will explain deeper in future posts) Internet in China is a (almost) paralell world: here you can’t use...
by Tamara Lucas | Oct 26, 2015 | China
Undoubtedly one of the characteristics that distinguishes China from other countries, Asian and non-Asian, is its capacity to create domestic products. This ability together with the fast technological growth experienced in last decades has brought a new wave of...
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