Between Meetings

The process is the key to getting a lot of things done My mission is to save the world Shut up and do something Problems are real in China  If you can make the entire market smarter you are going to get a much larger pie that you can all work off of Driven by the belief that change begins with a single step, Richard Brubaker has spent the last 20 years in Asia working to engage, inspire and equip...

People looked at the website and they didn't know what to do with this I burned out before the industry burned out Communication is very important for sales Interner consultants are bad programmers that are just good at talking  Automation in the small and medium-size factories is what's gonna happen next Rasmus Rasmusson is an experienced entrepreneur and product developer with 20+ year...

Asia countries are more competitive, people work much later hours Fung Group has one of the best connections with academia It is crazy how many business leaders do not even know what their customers want Gaming is a hard industry Manufacturing is always the toughest part We were on the chain working literally with factory workers Eddie Tsai is focused on designing and launching innovative products...

I saw a huge opportunity for 3D real-time technology The markets are already stable, it is hard to innovate and penetrate  In 2017 over 50% of smart cities were developed in China Only China and Saudi Arabia are the two countries that are starting cities from nothing A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical world Manufacturing and smart city are the pioneers of digital twins Carbon...

I had to leave a keyboard and go out to look for investment, people, and resources I was a pure tech nerd Security is the biggest challenge If we keep going like this we will be shut down again Picking the right co-founder is really really important In the future, digital assets will be more and more important Video production will be booming 13 years of experience with anything you can throw at s...

Real Estate developers were changing rapidly because they are all in such pain, that they would cut the entire executive board Deals with NetEase and Formula One were both signed during the coronavirus outbreak I see it as the future of spaces, especially new retail In China copies come really quick you gotta move fast We are in that value chain to supply people that want to copy us Eric Oetting ,...

It takes about two years to transition from a corporate person to an entrepreneur.  Too much money was put on bureaucratic things which are unnecessary for an early-stage project.   I need culture shock.  I witnessed how 30 million got burned for nothing.   No payment option was a stopper.   If you go to a new city and you know nobody you just say you are an entrepreneur.   Step out of a foreigner...

💡 Put a phone away. 💡 China is a fairly friendly place for foreigners as long as you are not doing things that the government does not want you to do. 💡 China is a super interesting market because over the past 30 years they built up this incredible asset base - the factory of the world. 💡 Technology adoption is a big issue. Erik Walenza-Slabe is a long-term resident of Shanghai where he runs...

💡 China is undergoing huge growth. Exponential opportunities are very attractive to young professionals. 💡 In the US, you work at a job in a high-pressure environment, you deliver, and a lot of your passion you build outside of your job. In China, it's a creation of things like WeChat, where it totally blurs personal and professional lines. 💡 We train and invest in people, not the ideas....

In China, you can get anything done in no time. If you cannot resource a team of champions within a corporation, then the relationships with startups are superficial. The number one KPI is the incremental revenue we drive for Intel. Graduated from Stanford, worked alongside incredibly talented people on designing multiple generations of Apple products, Kapil Kane , a co-founder of Intel® GrowthX c...

The first episode of In China Between Meetings, a series of video interviews where we talk about innovation , technology , and entrepreneurship . Join us for a ride with Sunny Ting , Digital Innovation Scout at BI x Digital Labs and Co-Director at Startup Grind Shanghai. Born in Taiwan, grew up in Hong Kong, Sunny is on the frontline of the Shanghai innovation ecosystem bridging the startup and co...