Presentation | Lessons Learned From Asia

During our visit to Silicon Valley this month, we gave a talk to a group of local investors about web & mobile innovation from Asia. Our main target was to illustrate how:

• Our assumptions get in the way of our understanding
• Asia not only innovates, but can be leveraged by foreign companies to accelerate innovation by way of “innovation arbitrage“

This presentation covers China, Japan and Korea with about a dozen examples of interesting service concepts and business models. We recommend checking:

• Our “5C of Innovation“
• Tencent, a billion-dollar web company in China
• Profit margins of online gaming companies in China
• Japan’s mobile advance and various web examples
• Mobile social networks Gree and Mobile Game Town in Japan
• Korea’s web and online gaming innovations

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+8* | Plus Eight Star looks at China, Japan and Korea because we don’t believe 500 million web users and 800 million mobile users in China, Japan and Korea can’t have good ideas.