5 things you need to learn before doing business in East Asia

Many people think you have tolive in California to build a billion-dollar business, but it should be obvious by now that this isn’t true. I’ve always believed that Asia provides a unique opportunity to aspiring entrepreneurs, ever since I moved to South Korea in 2010. However, one thing is undoubtedly true – business in Asia is different from other parts of the world. But if you know how to approach it, you’ll be quick to grow....

8 min · 1590 words · Julie Brown

5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Arianna Huffington

AOL’s recentacquisitionofThe Huffington Posttook the Internet world by storm. The new editor-in-chief of the media conglomerate, Arianna Huffington, completely stole attention from the recently concluded Super Bowl XLV on many popular news websites and now, we here at TNW want to share some interesting facts about the woman behind it all. Arianna Stassinopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in a family of four with one sister. At sixteen, she moved to England toattendGirton College at Cambridge University where she got an M....

3 min · 438 words · Joshua Smith

5 things you probably didn’t know you could do with Twitter

Oh sure, Twitter is useful for breaking news, conversing with friends and the like. But what about pushing it beyond the limits of simply 140 characters? What if you wanted to find new and exciting ways to make your life easier, all without ever having to leave Twitter? Here are 5 ways that you can, and we think you’ll like them a lot. 1 – Plan Your Meals You have some ingredients, but you have no idea what to do with them....

3 min · 573 words · John Duarte

5 tips for an ethical investment in tech stocks

5 tips for an ethical investment in tech stocks Growth of tech stocks According to investment advisersMorningstar, technology stocks account for 24.2% of the top 500 stocks in the United States. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet (which owns Google) dominate the market, with a combined value ofmore than US$4 trillion. Tech stocks also take center stage in Australia. We’ve seen the rapid rise of “buy now, pay later” companies such as Australian-owned Afterpay and Zip....

4 min · 736 words · Nicole Jones

5 tips for global software sales my team learned the hard way

5 tips for global software sales my team learned the hard way Trial and error can teach you a lot — but it’s more time efficient if it’s someone else’s trial and error. 1. Start small At JetBrains, we had organic growth across the entire globe, which means our tools were being used around the world before we started local market-specific activities. In Mainland China, which has been one of the most challenging markets to expand on, our software was used and sold prior to our local activities launch back in 2015....

6 min · 1271 words · Lisa Johnson
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