[VIDEO] Marc Co-founder of Tudou advises foreign entrepreneurs entering Asia

So, a few videos interviews I did at DEMO Asia 2012 two weeks ago mysteriously disappeared and now have reappeared on my (i)phone. This short interview with Marc van der Chijs, Dutch founder of Chinese video-sharing site, Tudou, is thus a bit delayed but nevertheless still relevant.

In here, he talks about the diversity of ideas but yet how some of the companies he saw at DEMO Asia — a launchpad for emerging technology – had small visions, but “it’s okay, you can start with a small vision but still build it up to a bigger company eventually”.

Watch out also for his advice to foreign entrepreneurs trying to enter Asia. Read more

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Here are some interesting startup news from China, not only in its capital, Beijing, but also other startup hubs such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and many more. Read more

TWIA #63: The End of Friendster

The TWIA crew is back this week with a laser focus on acquisitions that are spreading across Asia, with Transfer-To and Unoh being the biggest beneficiaries, and what’s more with Temasek investing in Tudou, one of the top video sharing sites in China. Of course, we celebrated the final end of Friendster as the company MOL who acquired them, sold the set of social networing patents to Facebook with an exclusive deal of distributing FB credits in Southeast Asia. If you think that news of that nature, what about hearing our friend and guest on the show, Brian Wong has successfully gotten venture capital of $200K with Tru Ventures for his new company Kiip.me and, also possibly one of the youngest entrepreneurs funded in Silicon Valley. Read more

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Temasek Holdings Invests USD 35M Into Tudou

Singapore’s Temasek Holdings has invested S$46.3m (USD 35m) in popular Chinese video sharing site Tudou. This is part of a Series E funding round that includes another USD 15M from existing investors, to make a total of USD 135M raised over Series A to E since going live 15th April 2005. Read more

TWIA Episode 25: All about Tudou

Finally, we hit the first milestone for This Week in Asia (#TWIA) – our first 25th episode landmark, right before the coming live show in Barcamp KL this Saturday, the crew sat down to talk about new happenings for Echelon 2010, the differences between China and US markets in the area of video content sharing, how VPNs are helping to crack the Great Firewall of China, and last but not least, we get breaking news during our show that Mobinode TV (from our friend Gang Lu) is now a content partner with Tudou as well. If that is not enough, we also talked about the Facebook F8 conference and how the new Open Graph APIs will affect Asian users. We share some details about the coming live show happening in Barcamp KL this Saturday. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more

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TWIA Episode 12: From Cracking Firewalls to Nexus One

The TWIA crew starts off the new year with the story of the Great Firewall of China breaking down for a few hours and talk about the new legalized video service from Baidu starting up soon there. While Google’s new phone “Nexus One” has taken the whole world by storm, the crew examines how the Asian market views this new phone and the adoption of Android operating system. Finally, the crew ends with a discussion on the seven technology incubators selected by National Research Foundation Singapore and how it will change the landscape in Southeast Asia as a whole. You can check out the podcast here. Read more

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