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How to conquer the Chinese market, according to 9GAG’s Ray Chan

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by on May 24, 2018 at 11:23 am
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China is an enticing growth market, particularly for tech companies. But according to 9Gag CEO Ray Chan, it’s also the place where Western tech companies are failing. He likens the Chinese tech market to awkward teenage fumbles with the opposite sex. “Everyone talks about it, nobody knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone clams they’re doing it,” he quipped on stage at the 2018 TNW Conference in Amsterdam. The thing is, he’s not wrong. Companies like Uber and Whatsapp, both giants in their own right, haven’t managed to unseat domestic-made rivals like Didi…

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How Logitech’s CEO used a 40-year-old design philosophy to shape his company

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by on May 24, 2018 at 10:23 am
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While on stage at TNW’s 2018 conference today, Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell spoke about his belief that everyone is a designer while they’re young, and that many companies, including his own, strive to achieve that same attitude again. As he puts it, we’re all naturally designers until we enter school. “Our education system does a great job of coaching us out of design.” Darrell covered his past during his talk, including his work with his work with German design-forward consumer products firm Braun. There he was influenced by the philosophy of designer Dieter Rams, who pioneered the “less is better”…

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StumbleUpon is calling it quits after 16 years

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by on May 24, 2018 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


After helping some 40 million users discover billions of pages with interesting stuff from across the web over since the early noughties, StumbleUpon is shuttering its content curation and discovery platform today. The service was arguably one of the first of its kind when it launched in 2002, providing users with a dead-simple way to find new sites to visit, articles to read, and pictures and video to gawk at. It also happened to arrive at a time when people were graduating from using the internet for essential functions like research and monetary transactions, to killing time and sharing things…

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TNW and Vodafone are building a smart city in just six months

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by on May 24, 2018 at 8:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Building a smart city from the ground up is a complex challenge that requires the cooperation of multiple stakeholders — such as governmental institutions, large enterprises, and small businesses Understandably, this cooperation between different stakeholders isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. Corporations often fight with municipalities over local taxes, threatening to bring their jobs elsewhere. Startups look at corporations less as potential partners and more as Goliaths that need to be brought down. And, in all of this, municipalities must assure that cities remain cities, a welcoming spaces for all citizens, and not tech hubs with unaffordable housing. If it wasn’t…

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The Power of the One-on-One Approach to List Building and Selling Online

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by on May 24, 2018 at 8:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Bryan Harris, founder of Video Fruit, made $8,337 with 575 emails he collected from Facebook groups. Without a sales funnel, website, or advertising. Just by approaching potential clients the old school way, one-on-one. But marketers are too obsessed with scalability and automation. We want more fans, more traffic, a bigger list. We fall over ourselves to deploy the latest automation tools, chatbots, and whatnot. Yet, sometimes something as primitive as one-on-one conversations can bring in as many or even more highly-targeted leads — and without the need for complex tools and funnels. As I always say, in a world of abundance,…

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