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Remember Dangdang and Youku? Both companies (respectively the “Amazon” and “Youtube” of China) succesfully went public in the US last December.

They seem to have opened the door for a number of other Chinese Internet companies IPOs - 15-20 Chinese companies are rumoured to have US IPO plans in 2011. Among them you can find Qihoo 360 and NetQin Mobile: both companies offer software security.

The latter may also exemplify what the future generation of Chinese technology companies may look like: headquartered in Beijing and funded by Western venture capital firms, most of its employees are involved in R&D between their Hong Kong, Beijing and Silicon Valley offices. Last but not least, the firm can count on a strong partnership with the world’s largest telecom operator (China Mobile) to take its market segment by storm.

Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post by Euromed Management's Michel Gutsatz about rethinking business schools.

"Here You will See the World through Different Eyes"

The Euromed Management signature was chosen a few years ago because we wanted to tell the business world that our responsibility was to open new perspectives for our students. We stand for diversity & for complexity, we mix globalization & localization AND we train international, responsible leaders & entrepreneurs.
This vision has led us to develop within the School an Innovation School - where students can learn, exchange virtually. It led us to partner with numerous Business Schools abroad and offer our students the possibility to work & learn throughout the world.

It now leads us a step further, to questions like:
- can we imagine a School without walls?
- can we build a School where students spend most of the time in corporations or NGOs or any place where they wish to build their professional career?
- what place for technology in this project?

These questions have led us to Lift, the first brick in the wall of this Business School 2.0, maybe a school without walls?!?

I'm often asked: "Don't you think putting all the videos online is shooting yourself in the foot?". No no, the free videos are part of our public service mission, and they don't replace one of Lift's biggest added value: the quality networking. Nothing beats face to face, whatever technology you have. Attending Lift brings concrete returns as shown in the Lift08 post conference survey:

Did you get any new business at LIFT08?”

Of the 145 attendees that responded, some 20% confirmed that they did get new business at LIFT08 and 45% responded that had established interesting contacts at LIFT that could perhaps generate new business. The remaining 35% said that they did not get any new business at LIFT08 but with many commenting that this was not their aim in attending LIFT or was not part of their current professional role.

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We should get together even more in hard times. Network is the new job security after all!

David Marcus, serial entrepreneur now founder and CEO of Zong, talks about the new business models created by mobile channels.