The term “Industry 4.0” is supposed to display the fourth industrial revolution. The first Industrial Revolution was driven by the steam engine and mechanisation, the second by Henry Ford’s assembly l… More

We have seen a trend of corporate investing in the Chinese TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) sectors where large companies such as Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent invest not only in their own… More

George Kohlrieser’s hostage rescue stories will make you sweat, but you will be impressed by the composure this psychology expert showed in those situations.  As a famous hostage negotiation expert, a… More

In the recent wave of Chinese investors going global, it is remarkable how much goes into real estate and other businesses that have a large element of fixed assets. These investments reveal a lot abo… More

Let me acknowledge that my views are not entirely unbiased because as someone who lives in China I am aboard what some, like Soros, say is a sinking ship; if the ship goes down I will definitely be hu… More

Entrepreneurs today have a diversity of venture financing sources they can try to tap; each has different benefits and risks. Independent venture investors (IVC), who have been around for decades, are… More

Mr. Luo Zhenyu [one of the investors in Papi Jiang] seems to be impatient to immediately monetize Papi Jiang’s popularity. This business is not yet mature enough for that – Papi Jiang has not yet esta… More

In China, female and male leaders who do not fit into age-old gender stereotypes are called 女汉子 (tough woman) and 暖男 (sensitive man). Which one gets better results at work? Who has more success when i… More

My research on dancing with gorillas – how startups partner meaningfully with large multinationals – in India and China, suggests that highly innovative startups in these vast emerging markets, have m… More

In China everything is planned – where you sit, and after whom. So in that sense the words ‘debt-equity swap’, which were spoken by the translator during Premier Li Keqiang’s press conference at the l… More