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Is “Going East” in your 2010 Plans?
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
One of India’s wealthiest business leaders, Anil Ambani, invests $325 million in Steven Spielberg’s movie studio DreamWorks – something unimaginable just five years ago. In turn, Warren Buffett invests $230 million for a 10% stake in Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD, the same investor who shunned technology investments earlier this [...]
So Much for the Cheap 'China Price'
Twitter It!A new study says rising mainland wages and higher shipping costs, among other things, make Mexico a better choice for manufacturing
By Pete Engardio
As purchasing manager for the North American arm of Japanese auto supplier Takata, Fred Heegan used to feel pressure to shift manufacturing to China. But when a customer pointed to a lower-priced [...]
Why China Isn’t “The Next Silicon Valley”
Twitter It!by Sarah Lacy on June 1, 2009
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/why-china-isn%E2%80%99t-%E2%80%9Cthe-next-silicon-valley%E2%80%9D/
Since I got home from China last week, I’ve found myself in a lot of conversations where phrases like “the next Silicon Valley,” or “just like Silicon Valley used to be,” keep coming up. But while China is swimming in capital and littered with start-ups, I’m [...]
Venture capital challenges
Twitter It!India and China aren’t just attracting entrepreneurs who are returning from overseas, but also venture capitalists. At a recent Quality of Management panel discussion at INSEAD’s Asia campus in Singapore, Chan Tze Hoe, investment manager with CAP Vista in Singapore, said that as markets grow in both countries, people who were born there but [...]
Entrepreneurship: Riding growth in India and China
Twitter It!With the rest of the world beating a path to India and China to cash in on the rapid economic growth in those countries and tap low-cost manufacturing (China) and services (India), countless business opportunities have opened up.
As INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Patrick Turner explains, this has attracted two groups [...]