Comments on: China Outsurfs US – What It Means For American Startups

By: Brody

Brody — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:20:15 +0000

I wonder if that trend will keep true with Youtube being blocked in China.. Perhaps with their downtime, more startups will emerge. I saw that Sun Microsystem’s extended their outreach for startups to PRC and other parts of Asia. Is that being utilized?

By: China Internet Usage Growth and Corporate Social Media : deswalsh.com

China Internet Usage Growth and Corporate Social Media : deswalsh.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:19:57 +0000

[...] but being overlooked? One blogger thinks so. Tarun at TechBanyan says American startups are surprisingly ignorant of what is happening: However what is extremely surprising on the part of American startups is, [...]

By: Tarun

Tarun — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:38:13 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with you here Des.

From my own experience in recent days, I thought of new web 2.0 apps that I recently started indulging in. One was Mint (online money manager) and Tweeter.

I know for the fact that Mint doesn’t have any presence outside US.

I don’t think Twitter has any Chinese language support as well.

(Though Mint trying to take it easy is understandable as they are in very delicate vertical of bank & finances but if they should keep trying to scale appropriately).

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:23:21 +0000

I’ve been reading up on this today. After wading through various posts, some on “prestige” sites, which basically repeat the BDA report – giving them lots of traffic no doubt – but add no pertinent comment or opinion, it was a relief to find this post with your very relevant observation in the second last para. I’m amazed at how little commentary there is in the blogosphere. Just take the one statistic from the CNNIC January report – 15.05 million new Internet users in Guandong province alone last year. Does that say Opportunity, or what?