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There is a difference in business culture between Asia and the West. Much of the startup related literature are western dominated and there is a vacuum for Asian business strategies related discussions in English. On each episode of CHATS, Old Chang will pick a topic which will interest English speaking founders and professionals by seeking out relevant lessons from Chinese history.
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TBH explores how tech businesses got started, how they succeeded or failed and what it was like to work in them. Presenter Charles Miller is a former BBC producer who specialised in documentaries about technology and business. In TBH he continues his research, meeting key people whose stories tell us how technology found its way into our lives. In this first series, he talks to those behind the dot com boom and bust in the UK in the late 1990s.
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Professional Team dynamic issues often happen because there is a difference in expectations or it is an ego issue. Both the founder and the professional need to know that success is about giving a chance to each other to make things successful. Both parties cannot achieve things on their own. Founders need to focus on maintaining unity in the team …
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3 Things Founders need to look out when they try and persuade professionals to join their mission 短期利益的保障 (His ability to Secure their short term financial interests) 长期利益的想象 (To maintain the foreseeability/visibility of the long term pay out interests) 成就感的可期待 (The possibility of attaining personal achievement)…
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1. Recognise that there are 3 types of roles in an effective team 帅才,将才,相才 -the commander, the general and the administrator. 2. The commander/leader’s stays focus on knowing what to do and entrusting the correct individual to execute it. It is the leader’s role to identify the talents and ensure Unity where people accepting their place vis-a-vis t…
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Stage 1: Starting Up Phase , form with those you trust, your brothers. Unity and Staying together 初创阶段,用兄弟,心齐。 Stage 2: Scaling up Phase, make use of professional talent, to tap on each other’s strengths 成长阶段,用专家,强力。 Stage 3: Explosion phase, leverage on external partnerships to harness scale and resources 完胜阶段,用外协,集势。 Talent comes in many forms, d…
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1. Talents come in all shapes and sizes. 2. Startup is an extreme sport. The skill sets getting into ivy league, a PHD or into a prestigious firm only reveals technical competency. The skill sets requied to get admitted into the above mentioned may not be relevant for the purposes of a startup. 3. Founders need to be clear on what kind of team they…
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Dear founders and listeners, this is Old Chang. Welcome to my new podcast Program CHATSU - Chinese history and Tech Startups, where we draw lessons from history to chart our own future. In this episode, we will explore how Liu Bei courts ZhugeLiang and draw parallel to how Jack Ma courts Joe Tsai during the early day of Alibaba.…
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Hello everyone, this is my try in recording a podcast to talk about Chinese History and some learnings for startup founders. Will like to start with something famous and light today - 三顾茅庐 (San 1 Gu4 Mao 2 Lu 2 Literally which means, 3 visits to the grass hut) Some person takeaways from the story for start up founders 1. Ask what is your current po…
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Sally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify the farming business. She converted a couple of the outhouses into offices and Amplebosom.com was born - pro…
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WCities was a London startup that provided local reviews written by a global team of freelancers - a kind of precursor to TripAdvisor. Its young founder, Tan Rasab, jumped on the dot com bandwagon early, hoping that his website could make money with banner advertising. When, along with many other startups, he found that wasn't going to work, he swi…
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Toby Rowland was the co-founder of one of Britain's best-known dot com startups - a health site called Clickmango. He and his partner had no trouble raising £3 million, or spending it as fast as they could, at the urging of their investors, in a year and a half. They hired Joanna Lumley to promote their site but Toby realised, too late, that the id…
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Eva Pascoe came to London from her native Poland to study human-computer interaction and psychology. In 1994, she founded Cyberia, possibly the world's first Internet cafe, which was described by Wired magazine as “the most fashionable cafe in '90s London”. Backed by Mick Jagger, and visited, unexpectedly, by Bill Gates, Cyberia became a hub for fi…
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As a BBC journalist, Rory-Cellan Jones witnessed the brief dot com boom in the UK, followed by the bust. Among the big stories, he covered the birth of Freeserve, Lastminute, Firebox and Clickmango - many of them headed by relatively privileged young people who'd come from Oxbridge or business school. But it was a time, he says, which has shaped Br…
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This week's guest started an online bookshop that was probably the first in the world. He’s not Jeff Bezos but he is, arguably, Britain’s answer to the founder of Amazon. He’s Darryl Mattocks and he was selling books online in 1994 - a year ahead of Amazon. In fact Mr Bezos later came to the UK to check out The Internet Bookshop, as it was called. …
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