... ost start-ups fail. According to a study by Harvard Business School lecturer Shikhar Ghosh, three out of four startups backed by venture capital in the United States fail. Some researchers even estima ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... ost grown-ups who live with their parents pay no rent and generally don't contribute toward daily household expenses such as water and electricity. This is their parents' way of supporting them, Wong ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-30
... ore start-ups and entrepreneurs; wealth creation and incremental domestic demand along with the bull market will be very significant. The Chinese government has to tread very carefully and avert any c ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-23
... market's ups and downs The economic restructuring will be a bumpy journey. Investors will either underestimate or overestimate the economic situation, and they will sometimes be optimistic or pessimi ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-22
Internet giant Google Inc. and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have launched a program to support about 2,800 start-ups over the next four years. Called the 2 Percent Mission -- the target represe ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... ign start-ups and providing fashion design graduates with overseas internships and study opportunities. Given that it is still early April, the start of the new financial year, the budget proposal is ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... out start-ups. So what’s next? First, we need more of everything. More entrepreneurs, more talent, more angel capital, more accelerators, more education and, yes, even more co-working spaces. Second, ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
... such tie-ups can be to strike in such a volatile pricing environment, Whiting Petroleum Corp., a medium-size US oil and gas company, recently aborted an effort to find a buyer. Shell is one of the wo ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
... Youth Groups has granted subsidies to young entrepreneurs in the catering industry for years. In the last decade, up to 70 percent of the business proposals the federation received were about setting ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... such tie-ups with Chinese partners they might have avoided just five years ago. Such tie-ups could give them much better access to China's media market, which is tightly controlled but also has huge ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... re always ups and downs, and the most important thing is, there are still a lot of things that I love about this place.” This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 13. Translatio ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... ive start-ups and young entrepreneurs to fulfill their dreams. However, the finance curriculum offered by local universities mainly covers theory but fails to provide opportunities for hands-on experi ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
Pinterest Inc. said Monday it had raised US$367 million in venture capital, valuing the online firm at US$11 billion and making it one of the most highly valued start-ups in the world, The Wall Street ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-17
... ble start-ups, according to the Journal. For Alibaba, the investment marks its latest foray into both Silicon Valley start-ups and social media. The company had previously invested in video call app ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-12
Major investors have exploited well the market's ups and downs by switching between different individuals stocks and sectors. The strategy works quite well in the current market condition. Equity and ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-10
... o through ups and downs in the future; however, the broad trend will be upward. Lee noted that the United States still has its strengths despite its challenges, as the country has the most attractive ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... the start-ups which have limited resources. Filling a need, it's no surprise that co-working spaces have been springing up rapidly in the city in the recent past. Unwire.com, a local technology news w ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
... gone many ups and downs, and various financial secretaries have been good at pleasing the public. In 1999, when the government ran a deficit of HK$21.4 billion and the local economy shrank by 7 percen ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
Hong Kong plans to improve the ecosystem for local start-ups, especially technology enterprises, by expanding the financing channels and strengthening business support services, Financial Secretary Jo ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
... for start-ups in both the US and in Asia. In 2013, only 10 percent of the total capital invested in EdTech went to companies operating in China. In 2014, that number increased to 24 percent. Given the ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-24
