Is China Innovating? Innovation Semantics

Cultural bias, incremental changes and stereotypes about innovation and entrepreneurs come in the way of finding innovation.

Sorting Failure From Success in Social Networking | The Tencent Case

Failure. Success. When do we cross the line between the two?

Tencent’s 2009 Annual Results | US$1.8B and US$765M Net Profit

Tencent made 3 times more money than Facebook in 2009 and could buy one MySpace with profits. How?

Morgan Stanley Quotes Our Inside Tencent Report

Great Morgan Stanley report on Mobile Internet and Tech trends. We helped them a bit.

Replicating Tencent’s Model? Forbes Quotes Our View on Vietnam’s VinaGame

Our view on Vietnam’s online gaming leader VinaGame and more generally on how to look at developing Internet markets.

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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Inside Tencent | Key Facts Presentation

We are glad to announce we got over 100 downloads of the free sample within 48 hours of our “Inside Tencent” report launch. Based on this free sample, we created a short slideshow to highlight some key facts.
Learn about:

How Tencent compares to some other key SNS
How Tencent compares to other Internet leaders in China
Tencent’s revenue
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Inside Tencent Report 2009 | US$1 billion can’t be wrong!

Dear +8* readers,
Following our post on Tencent’s 1H2009 results yesterday, the +8* team is delighted to announce the release of the 2009 edition of its “Inside Tencent” report.
Over a year has passed since the first edition and many things have changed:

GROWTH | Tencent grew from US$500 million to over US$1 billion in sales. It is
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Tencent makes a killing in Q2 again + “Inside Tencent” report on its way

The 2009 edition of our our popular “Inside Tencent” report will be released in the coming days! We will have a promotion for the first orders. Contact us if you would like more details.
While the economy is slowing globally and advertising dollars are drying up, a few companies are still doing pretty well. One of
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Celebrating 100,000+ views of our presentations & some thoughts

A few days ago while exchanging ideas with our friends at Slideshare (“the YouTube of presentations” that is possibly going to monetize better than YouTube and certainly cost a lot less), we thought about making a count of the views and downloads we had over the 20+ presentations we put on there. All those presentations
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