Influence Matters’ new PR Account Coordinator Kefei selected five articles about Chinese startups that caught her eye in Chinese press and summarized them shortly in English. They cover original content copyrights for WeChat, drone trends, Uber and Didi with an unexpected competitor, O2O veggie for students and characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurship.
Due to rampant plagiarizing among WeChat Public Subscription Accounts, “nocopy.me.com” built a copyrighted library to protect content creators and allow for article trading | 36Kr
Under the country’s push for “Internet Plus”, self-media has become low-threshold approach for entrepreneurship. In order to increase the click rate and follow, many public accounts on WeChat platform choose to copy and reprint content directly from others’ accounts without authorization from the original author. “nocopy.me.com” brings a solution to trade original copyrighted content legally.
Gu Shengzu: Six characteristics of the current wave of innovative entrepreneurship in China | China Economic
The Chinese government is encouraging people to start their own businesses and develop innovation, the authors has investigated hundreds of enterprises in more than 10 rapid development cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc.) and indicated six main characteristics of Chinese new round Innovational Entrepreneurship that are the following: 1. Small and medium Entrepreneurships are highly encouraged; 2. The Government is actively supporting the innovative entrepreneurships by university students and overseas returnees; 3. The new business model, “Internet Plus” is highly recommended in entrepreneurship; 4. Combine innovation and entrepreneurship together; 5. Building a communication platform for the same industry; 6. Building more business circle (such as ZOL) to stimulate both entrepreneurships and innovations.
Besides the popularity, what are the problems, thresholds and trends in the drone industry? | GeekPark
The article investigate the real conditions behind the prosperous drone industry. For example, the repair rate is high, but the efficiency of after-sale-service is quite low; the consumer drone is actually a very complex and highly integrated system which contains a camera, holder, distant figure pass, obstacle avoidance technology, flying control and computer vision, among many other things. The article also predicts the future drones to be smaller, lighter, more intelligent and lower cost.
Xu Xian (O2O fruits selling) is taking over universities in Beijing: How did the company go from 0 to 10 million (orders) in 9 months? | Newseed
You won’t realize how popular Xu Xian is until you take a walk in the universities in Beijing. Xu Han, the founder of Xu Xian has showed his distaste for “comparative adverting, subsidies and concepts” in internet circles. He believes that the real value is that the business can still keep operating although the subsidies has been removed.
Is UCAR the real competitor of Didi Taxi and Uber? | Sohu
Internet Company and B&M businesses used to exist in two completely different worlds. With the emergence of E-commerce, the two business types reinforced each other. We might be heading into a competition between the two types in the China car hiring industry. UCAR which owns vehicles and employ drivers, versus the model of Didi and Uber. The article analyzes the aspects of marketing strategies, operation modes and technology support, as well as predicts the future trends of Chinese car rental industry, believing neither Didi’s subsidy marketing strategy nor Uber’s high technology support could result in a sustainable development. The final winner in car rental industry must insist on providing the real products and services with safety, comfort, convenience and economical for consumers.
