Virtual Goods in Asia – The US Gold Rush Begins

This is the presentation we gave at the Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco (you can fill the form below to download it). There were over 500+ attendees, it looks like the US market reaching $1bln is now getting a lot of attention.
We received nice coverage from:

Virtual Goods News: “Asia Driving the Virtual Goods Marketplace“
VentureBeat:
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Lessons Learned From Asia | The VC View

Last month Mark Suster from GRP Partners in L.A. invited us to present to a group of Southern California VCs. We made the slideshow available here and Mark posted his take on the presentation on his blog BothSidesOfTheTable. We share it here with our readers.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Mark Suster.
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What We Must Learn from Asia
August 11,
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Event Report | Geeks on a Plane: 30 Silicon Valley Geeks in Asia

In June, our friends Dave MacClure (who handles the Facebook Fund, a cooperation between Facebook and FoundersFund), Christine Lu (24,000 Twitter followers can’t be wrong) and George Godula from Web2Asia (market entry and incubation of web companies in Asia) thought that bringing 30 geeks from Silicon Valley – entrepreneurs, angel investors and media web execs
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Event Report | Cmune Pitch at Infinity Ventures Summit in Sapporo

The Infinity Venture Summit is Japan’s largest web & mobile conference, organized by the early-stage VC firm Infinity Venture Partners, which invests mostly in Japan and China. It takes place twice a year and gathering 300+ Japanese C-level execs, and a handful of foreign guests. The event is invitation-only and combines keynotes, panels, start-up pitches
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Event Report | Building Local & Global Web Companies @ UnConference Singapore

In May we were invited to speak at the UnConference organized by e27 in Singapore. It welcomed several hundreds entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs-to-be, investors and web industry people.
In addition to moderating a panel on “Innovation in Asia” – which focused on highlighting the not-so-straight road and little known ideas, such as how to get your first batch
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If you don’t stick it on the Internet, it did not happen

The past 2 months have been hectic with a number of large projects that kept our team too busy to post! We’ll be catching up with web activity in the next 2 weeks, including reports on UnConference, Infinity Ventures Summit, Startonomics Beijing, Startup2Startup Beijing, BarCamp Shanghai and more!

Presentation on Mobile & Web Innovation in China

This is the presentation we gave to Dutch executives visiting Beijing with the leadership training company De Baak in March 2009. It is our first one focused on “Chinese innovation“. Though people often ask us “is there any innovation in China?” we rarely get the chance to actually present on this topic publicly, and most
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Virtual Worlds in China, Asia, the World and the Digital Third Place

Last week we presented the summary of the research on virtual worlds in Asia (covering China, Japan and South Korea) commissioned by the European Commission via the EU-China Information Society Project, in cooperation with the Chinese Government.
To summarize the summary:

The 2D web of virtual worlds is doing well, while the 3D web is recovering from
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eComm 2009 | Presentation on Asian Mobile & Telecom Ecosystems

Today was the last day of the Emerging Communications “eComm” Conference in San Francisco, CA.
The turnout and talks were great thanks to the hard work of its organizer, Lee S Dryburgh. It was a mix of telecom, design, web stuff and thoughts about the future of communication (who said “Technology, Entertainment, Design“?) so probably the
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Event Report | “New TV, New Era” @ OrangeLabs Beijing

Is the end of the year a popular event season? We joined this week the “New Era, New TV” seminar organized by OrangeLabs in Beijing. Our presentation highlights a few problems identified with online and mobile tv – notably questions the scalability of ad-based revenue models – and introduces some of the most interesting video
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