State of the Billion Dollar Startups Held by Mutual Funds
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- 2016年11月24日
- 4 分鐘
A look at Kickstarter: Why Not IPO?
Good afternoon, everyone. We have always said that the toughest challenges an entrepreneur faces is the marketing and sales of their...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年11月14日
- 3 分鐘
Electronic Eyes for You!
Good morning. It is impossible these days not to notice a Tesla on the road. People always ask "When can we enable the auto pilot...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年11月1日
- 4 分鐘
A $100M times X Startup on Internet of Things
Going back to San Francisco, despite the internet age and the temptation to buy everything on line, we always go to a few brick and...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年10月28日
- 3 分鐘
San Francisco programs for Startups Here?
Been spending a week in the Bay Area, supposedly taking a break. Yes, have seen how Uber Eats works, how Zip Car zips along, how apps...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年10月19日
- 3 分鐘
Making Money by Letting People Download for Free? Try GitHub
Readers of this blog by now probably know that we are a firm believer of open collaboration. The technology world has gotten so...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年10月12日
- 2 分鐘
Billion Dollar Startup in South East Asia: They can; Can We?
Just not too long ago, the trick to be successful in this part of the world seems to be To find a business model that works really well...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年10月9日
- 2 分鐘
VR from Taiwan
It has been a back to back holiday in this part of the world for quite a number of us. Most of our acquaintance are on the road. We...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年10月1日
- 4 分鐘
Another Book to Read: GRIT 另一本應該看的書：GRIT(毅力)
另一本應該看的書：GRIT(毅力) 首先，我們要感謝這麼多人對我們博客的意見。雖然我們一般只評論技術領域的創業。但令我們驚訝的是有朋友使勁地回應我們上次推薦的書—Mindset。 很多朋友回應指當他們讀這本書的時候，有一瞬間的激動，他們仿佛突然間明白到一些他們自身和朋友經驗...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年9月27日
- 2 分鐘
The Fastest Growing 5000 Small Medium Sized and Young Companies : What can we learn from them?
Everywhere people are talking about Innovation and Startups. It hardly goes by a day without seeing some cool ideas. And, while we often...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年9月23日
- 9 分鐘
Open Source Software and Growth for All - We cannot just "download" and not "upload&q
Over the weekend, a list of numbers flashed across our screen as we were doing our research. In particular, I was reading through the...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年9月17日
- 2 分鐘
A Book to Read: Mindset
We probably should just stick with the topic of technology development. And, guilty indeed we are to digress. But, we do want to talk...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年9月8日
- 4 分鐘
No more seat on the Mobile Payment bus?
Recently, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, there is a program to help freshman and sophomore students get real life...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年8月10日
- 3 分鐘
China Tech Companies Listed in the US: What Now?
In the last post, we briefly mentioned the enormous size of Tencent and Baidu. Yes, what a cliché. But, sometimes people forget that...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年8月10日
- 2 分鐘
US$550M Investment by Tencent/Baidu/JD into BitAuto
The number is such so huge sometimes. Over the past weekend, a post IPO funding round was announced in which a group including Tencent,...
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- 2016年8月2日
- 3 分鐘
2 Consumer Play: YeeChoo (Hong Kong)/ Carousell (Singapore) 兩間非常有前途為消費者成立的科技公司 。 一間在香港的 Yeechoo 一間
I know most people are probably focusing on the Didi/Uber China deal. Indeed a big deal. Combined the new Didi is worth more than US$36...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年7月28日
- 2 分鐘
Facebook's Profit Jumped to US$2 billion/quarter up from $1B just 6 months ago; and Google,Amazo
When a company is worth more than US$1 billion , we call that company a "Unicorn". What do we call a company whose profit alone is a...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年7月26日
- 2 分鐘
Financial Viability of a Domain/Blog/Website Hosting Agency
Ever since I have started writing this little blog of mine (thank you for reading, this is a small experiment on my part), I have been...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年7月25日
- 2 分鐘
IKEA and Smart Shopping....Really?
Just finished a day shopping at IKEA --- one of my most favorite stores. Have always admired the quality of the product. And, the...
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Jack Lau
- 2016年7月24日
- 2 分鐘
Pokemon Go in China and Lenovo
While Pokemon Go has not arrived at most parts of Asia, people are waiting impatiently. And, the persistent questions people asked are: ...
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