by Tamara Lucas | Mar 4, 2016 | Hong Kong |
Prevention of heart attacks thanks to Internet of Things (IoT)? The end of the morning snoozze? A better hearing thanks to a external device? It’s been only a couple of months since we had the opportunity to speak with some of the teams in Brinc, the hardware...
by Tamara Lucas | Feb 2, 2016 | Hong Kong |
We had the opportunity to assist to the Startup Weekend Hong Kong and there we met two young men who had just launched to the entrepreneurial world. With very different business ideas, they shared the desire to do things, the enthusiasm for a growing sector and the...
by Tamara Lucas | Jan 13, 2016 | Hong Kong |
It is not the first time we hear that “hardware” has the word “hard” for a reason. However, I have not met anyone who talks about IoT and the challenges of hardware startups with more energy than Bay McLaughlin, co-founder of Brinc, the main...
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 16, 2015 | Mongolia |
One feature that makes Asian markets different from others is the importance of local differentiation. From outside (and please, do not misunderstood me) all countries may seem “equal”, but it gains special relevance the Country brand above the Asian brand (as I could...
by Iván Fanego | Oct 9, 2015 | Mongolia |
Regarding our research about startups in Mongolia The New Media Group has been our first experience interviewing a entrepreneur in Asia. With a 80 people team, offices in USA and headquartered in Mongolia, they are a great example of entrepreneur spirit. Mend-Orshikh...
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