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Mobile Space in China: Richard Robinson

In the second part of our series on the mobile space in China, I interview Richard Robinson, CEO of Dada Asia. Richards makes a case for why entertainment applications are the most compelling.

Aside from Dada and sitting on a few boards of other companies, Richard produces ChopSchticks, which I had the privilege of attending and enjoyed immensely. Definitely highly recommended.

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China Businesscast: The Mobile Space in China: A Primer

If you are like me, you have sat in restaurants and bars nursing your drink in awkward silence wishing you knew enough to join in the conversation about the wonders of things called 3G and TD-SCDMA. If so, then you be pleased about this first of a series of China Businesscast episodes on the mobile space in China. In this episode I talk with industry veteran Sage Brennan of Pacific Epoch. Hopefully, we'll answer some of the questions you may have been too embarrassed to ask.

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Robert Ness keeps a blog on trends and opportunities in entrepreneurship in China’s new media called The China Venture.

The Chinese expression 从无到有（cong2wu2dao4you3), to emerge from nothingness, would be a fair way to describe how traditional and new forms of Chinese media have proliferated in the last decade. In this episode, I interview Graham Earnshaw, journalist-turned-businessman, who has three decades of experience in the media industry in China. He offers his insights on working in this industry, including "working in the grey", what the Sony Reader means for the future of Chinese magazines, how to start a dot.com in China, and the future of how the Chinese consume media.

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Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web

How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, talks about online word of mouth in China. His company specializes in monitoring, measuring, and analyzing the buzz on the Chinese Web. Somewhere in all that noise, people are talking about your brand, and are affecting it for better or for worse.

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Read Sam Flemming's blog to learn more about online word of mouth in China.

Check out Robert Ness's blog on entrepreneurial trends in Chinese media called The China Venture. Contact him at robert(a)danwei.org.

China Businesscast: Interview with Ogilvy

In this episode, I interview Debby Cheung and Yohan Vakidis of the Shanghai office of Ogilvy, the international marketing, advertising, and public relations firm. Having just interviewed Vanessa Seow of PR company Weber Shandwick, this interview should shed more light on the PR and marketing landscape of China. Among the topics covered are handeling PR crises in China, interactive PR and marketing, and viral marketing in China. Special thanks to Helen Shu for setting up this interview.

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Check out Robert Ness's blog on entrepreneurial trends in China's new media called The China Venture. Contact him at robert(a)danwei.org.

PR Expert Vanessa Seow of Weber Shandwick

Vanessa works in technology PR at the Beijing HQ of the well known multinational PR agency Weber Shandwick. She gives deep insight into what makes the Chinese PR industry unique and different from PR anywhere else in the world.

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TongTong.com

In this episode of China Businesscast, I interview Guy and Terrance, two of the co-founders of TongTong.com, a social networking site in China meant to bring globally minded people in and outside of China together. This episode brings insight on the advantages and disadvantages of doing a Web start-up in Mainland China.

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Robert Ness is interested in web and mobile application development in Asia. He has a blog on entrepreneurial trends in China called The China Venture.

China Businesscast: Fritz Demopoulos, CEO Qunar.com

This episode kicks off a China Businesscast series on entrepreneurship in China. Fritz Demopoulos is CEO and co-founder of Qunar.com, a travel-focused vertical search engine. Fritz is a true 'sino'-preneur and has a lot of valuable insights to offer those interested in entrepreneurship in China.

Please offer your recommendations on other entrepreneurs to interview, as well as your comments and feedback.

Also, to all those interested in entrepreneurship in China, send an introductory email Robert@danwei.org. Your interaction will allow China Businesscast to deliver content that better addresses your concerns, and serve as an intermediary for meeting other entrepreneurs with complementary abilities and similar interests.

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First Episode of China Businesscast Published

The first episode of my podcast, China Businesscast is available here or on www.danwei.org. It is an interview with associates and friends of mine at Lenovo. I figured Lenovo was a good way to start out. I don't want to start splitting my feed audiences, so when the suscribe link is up on Danwei, I'll put it on this page. Or you could suscribe to audio and (hopefully in the near future) video content on this page itself, but I'd rather people use the feed.

Here is the link to the file itself.