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I still remember, it was not too long ago, how much I could not stand the stiletto heel pointed-toe shoes. They looked so “nineteen seventies” and old fashion. I could never imagine myself wearing things like that. Last year, those shoes made a huge come-back. All of a sudden, they appeared on the shelves of […] “Search is the crown jewel of the Chinese Internet market.” Thus came China’s search engine war, fueled by the outpouring money from foreign investors and the overwhelming number of competitors in the market. Shortly after Baidu’s phenomenal IPO last August, Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested $10 million for 28 percent […] At Churchill Club’s Top Ten Technology Trends Debate, Silicon Valley’s leading visionaries John Doerr, Steve Jurvetson, Roger McNamee, Joe Schoendorf, and Ann Winblad were once again gathering together, predicting and debating the top ten technology trends that will fly for the year ahead. The predictions included energy such as solar power, wind power, bio-fuel, wireless […] At SVASE main event “Where the Hot Money Will Be Going in 2006,” the panelists from Onset Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson talked about the innovations they see that are coming to reshape the landscape of software, semiconductors, Internet, telecom, energy and bio-tech industries. There are many things happening in mobile/wireless space, Web […] Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, was nominated as one of the 25 most influential business leaders in the world along with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan, etc. In an interview with Nightly Business Report, Muhammad Yunus said poverty is unnecessary. Human beings are quite capable of taking care themselves. but we have […] The biggest problem facing micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries is the inability to access the larger public market and its market information. They do not have efficient channels to reach customers. This creates a significant barrier for the working poor to rise from poverty. Yet the world’s poorest people are rushing to embrace mobile phones because […] One of the reasons I came to this country is because “America is a land of opportunity and a country of freedom.” It sounded so romantic. At the time, all I wanted was to be in this great country! It must be true, in some sense, to make America a great country as it is […] After “Google Base,” a beta testing site, was quickly launched and taken off last month, there are many speculations about Google’s intention to get into online classified advertising business. Today, Google Base is officially live! This marks another step of Google’s ambition to organize the world’s information on the web. It seems to me that […] There are several challenges of e-commerce in China. The most quoted reason is the poor credit and payment systems. Credit cards are still new to most Chinese people. There are about 650 million bank cards in circulation, but the majority of them are debit cards. My friend in Beijing asked me about the benefit of […] At one of the entrepreneurial seminars at Stanford early this year, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a premier Silicon Valley VC firm, said very clearly that KPCB was not going to China any time soon, simply because they didn’t quite understand the capital market there. Today’s blog post by Matt Marshall on […] |