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There is a difference in business culture between Asia and the West. Much of the startup related literature are western dominated and there is a vacuum for Asian business strategies related discussions in English. On each episode of CHATS, Old Chang will pick a topic which will interest English speaking founders and professionals by seeking out relevant lessons from Chinese history.
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Episode 6: Learning from Liu Bang (Managing the dynamics between Founders and Professionals)
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Professional Team dynamic issues often happen because there is a difference in expectations or it is an ego issue. Both the founder and the professional need to know that success is about giving a chance to each other to make things successful. Both parties cannot achieve things on their own. Founders need to focus on maintaining unity in the team …
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Episode 5: Learning from Liu Bang (Scaling up beyond brotherhood Managing and Courting Professionals) 齐心聚人
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3 Things Founders need to look out when they try and persuade professionals to join their mission 短期利益的保障 (His ability to Secure their short term financial interests) 长期利益的想象 (To maintain the foreseeability/visibility of the long term pay out interests) 成就感的可期待 (The possibility of attaining personal achievement)…
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Episode 4: Learning from Liu Bang (Scaling up beyond brotherhood Harnessing the skills of professionals 成长阶段，用专家，强力)
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1. Recognise that there are 3 types of roles in an effective team 帅才，将才，相才 -the commander, the general and the administrator. 2. The commander/leader’s stays focus on knowing what to do and entrusting the correct individual to execute it. It is the leader’s role to identify the talents and ensure Unity where people accepting their place vis-a-vis t…
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Stage 1: Starting Up Phase , form with those you trust, your brothers. Unity and Staying together 初创阶段，用兄弟，心齐。 Stage 2: Scaling up Phase, make use of professional talent, to tap on each other’s strengths 成长阶段，用专家，强力。 Stage 3: Explosion phase, leverage on external partnerships to harness scale and resources 完胜阶段，用外协，集势。 Talent comes in many forms, d…
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Episode 2: Learning from 3 Kingdoms (Knowing whether someone is the appropriate talent for your startup 马谡失街亭）
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1. Talents come in all shapes and sizes. 2. Startup is an extreme sport. The skill sets getting into ivy league, a PHD or into a prestigious firm only reveals technical competency. The skill sets requied to get admitted into the above mentioned may not be relevant for the purposes of a startup. 3. Founders need to be clear on what kind of team they…
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Episode 1: Learning from 3 Kingdoms (Courting the talent for your early stage startup 三顾茅庐 )
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Dear founders and listeners, this is Old Chang. Welcome to my new podcast Program CHATSU - Chinese history and Tech Startups, where we draw lessons from history to chart our own future. In this episode, we will explore how Liu Bei courts ZhugeLiang and draw parallel to how Jack Ma courts Joe Tsai during the early day of Alibaba.…
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Hello everyone, this is my try in recording a podcast to talk about Chinese History and some learnings for startup founders. Will like to start with something famous and light today - 三顾茅庐 (San 1 Gu4 Mao 2 Lu 2 Literally which means, 3 visits to the grass hut) Some person takeaways from the story for start up founders 1. Ask what is your current po…
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Today’s Headlines Include:LeEco/Vizio deal falls through, attracts funding for sportsAI bots Alpha Go Libratus make further strides in gaming competitions Alibaba + Tencent further expand payments in SE AsiaMeituan and Tujia both introduce new models in home sharing spaceتوسط China Tech Insights
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Today’s Headlines Include:AI Startup Mobvoi partners up with VolkswagenTencent now one of the world’s biggest companiesFurther rumors swirl between Airbnb and XiaozhuToutiao blows up to 11 billion Xiaomi turns 7 launches new retail storeOfo implements local GPS alternative in new smart locksتوسط China Tech Insights
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Today’s headlines include: Baidu confronted with another executive departureTencent expands investment in e-vehiclesWechat to push further into EU/USDidi considering 6B in new investment from SBSmaller Didi rival Shouqi considering new partnershipBike-sharing startups team up with their backers to upgrade warfare…
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Chinese internet giants go all-in on AI:Tencent’s Go-playing AI bot Fineart picks up 11 wins in at comp in japan;Baidu suffers an important loss of personnel;Lenovo joins the race with new lab under Lenovo Corporate Resarch;Tencent & Alibaba both see content as an entrance point for users taking the lead from toutiao in the midst of slowed smartpho…
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TOP STORIES OF THE WEEKChinese companies made their debut at this year’s SXSW. Heated bike-sharing venture Mobike, China’s Quora-equivalent Zhihu, among others, shared their view on how Chinese technology is establishing new tech trend.Airbnb is said to have received investment from Chinese state-backed firm CIC(China Investment Corporation) in its…
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·Companies featured in this week’s newsletter include Xiaomi, Didi, ofo, Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei, Alibaba, and social media companies Douban and Momo:·Xiaomi CEO says he will launch AI products within half a year·Chinese entrepreneurs are now enabling citizens to rent scooters for their commute·Didi is said to have set up an AI research lab in Silicon …
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All the latest from Didi, ofo, LeEco, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and SF Express!توسط China Tech Insights
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