Between Meetings

Takeaways

• Looking at the economic situation, the speed, and the drive that China had, all I could see was an opportunity 
• Our focus is on creating great client experience and understanding this fast-changing market
• We work with Western brands to identify how they can stay true to the core and at the same time be sensitive to the local market
• Our job is to absorb the differences and to facilitate productive collaboration and cooperation.
• We have to be intentional about collaboration, intentional about diversity. 

Ferdinand Klauser is an international brand strategy and marketing consultant serving clients in automotive, sports performance, and lifestyle products. He is passionate about collaborating with KISKA’s multidisciplinary teams to deliver relevant experiences that move people, shape brands, and create impact.

Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stories, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success.

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Takeaways:

💡 Through technology you can create little tools to enhance a creative expression. 

💡 I am not educated to educate other people. 

💡 When you are a retailer you grow either by acquiring new customers or by making existing customers more profitable. And those two things are becoming harder to do for home furniture. 

💡 Everything that surrounds us has the opportunity to be better. 

💡 Here you are able to launch things that may not be hyper polished. But you can launch them in a spirit of learning.

Momo Estrella is an advocate for human-centered design, change agency, and neurodiversity inclusion.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. In partnership with Startups Gear which connects startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

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Other activities:

Founders Breakfast

Weekly meetup connecting startups & founders to the entrepreneurial ecosystem via expert talks & trustful connections.

Startups Gear

We connect startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

TECOM

China's first international technology and innovation conference.

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Takeaways:

💡 Carve your own path

💡 Languages shaped my passion to go and explore different places

💡 In the last few years, innovation has had to lean and point almost directly towards China

💡 Innovation moved from something that was on the edge, things people thought about as something new and different, it moved into the center where everybody should be thinking about innovation

💡 Innovation is a way of thinking

💡 Innovation is a muscle

Anthony Leung, ?What If! Innovation Greater China Lead & Accenture Managing Director.

Anthony is an expert in utilizing consumer understanding, cultural context, trends, and creativity to uncover insight generation, and develop breakthrough innovation and brand positioning for start-ups, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in a range of industries, including technology, advertising, healthcare, retail, and events/entertainment.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. In partnership with Startups Gear which connects startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page

Other activities:

Founders Breakfast

Weekly meetup connecting startups & founders to the entrepreneurial ecosystem via expert talks & trustful connections.

Startups Gear

We connect startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

TECOM

China's first international technology and innovation conference.

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa, and more.

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Takeaways:

💡 Every day we change forever

💡 Working for corporates teaches you processes, how to work with big teams, how to allocate resources

💡 You cannot check for understanding when you share training or communication piece 

💡 We find it difficult to convince Chinese companies that we are a better service provider than domestic companies 

💡 We see a lot of localization in recent years in China

💡 A lot of our multinational clients bring us outside of China

Matt Spriegel's lifelong dream is to bring education and resources to the most remote regions in the world. 

Atiom's vision is to transform workplaces into agile, engaging, and uplifting communities with both people and the planet in mind. 

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights, and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. In partnership with Startups Gear which connects startups to growth opportunities in just one click.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa, and more.

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Takeaways:

• Metaverse allows more fluidity for economic class
• 5% of your customers generate 80-90% of your profitability
• The right timing is key to success
• I‘ve been lucky throughout my career that people have trusted me to execute and to be able to think independently 
• Entrepreneurship is tough
• All the things that we have been seeing in sci-fi movies are going to be a part of our real world soon
• I learned more in that year and a half than I did at all my courses at MIT
• You need to be very careful looking at your legal documents
• We did all the mistakes you could do as a venture-backed entrepreneur

Mr. Graylin （汪丛青） is the China President at HTC leading all aspects of HTC's business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments) and the company’s XR Suite Business globally. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com) with 300+ company members, President of the $18B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR Accelerators (VIVEX.co) in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tel Aviv. Mr. Graylin is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the areas of VR/AR, AI, Entrepreneurship, and doing business in China by events and media globally.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. Supported by Startups Gear, a one-click application tool for startups, and TECOM Conf, China's first tech and entrepreneur communities conference.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa and more.

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Natalie Lowe, Managing Partner at The Orangeblowfish, Creative, Branding, China, Selfbranding, Phygital

• you can't have everything now, you can’t be everything now
• personal branding helps you to better understand what your core values are
• COVID was an enabler of China moving forward with from admiring Western brands right up to incorporating a lot of Chinese culture and design into their creative campaigns that just speak to local audiences
• the new term "phygital" how do you get people into physical spaces
• does your brand resonate with your client's values?
• never lose sight of why you did this in a first place

Natalie Lowe, the Managing Partner at The Orangeblowfish, is a woman who wears many hats. She is an entrepreneur, a mother of 2 beautiful children; a wife; and an active volunteer in the global business community.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. 

This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. Supported by Startups Gear, a one-click application tool for startups, and TECOM Conf, China's first tech and entrepreneur communities conference.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa and more.

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• If you are not creating anything you are wasting time
• China is irreplaceable 
• The only thing I knew was China was growing and there were opportunities
• I was cutting 70% of the staff without really having reasons to do it
• We are adding trust and transparency to the sourcing world

Minesh Pore, Co-Founder & CEO at BuyHive, is a highly regarded global trade expert with over 20 years of experience leading multinational organizations in intrapreneurship, corporate transformation, business development, and strategic planning.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape. Supported by Startups Gear, a one-click application tool for startups, and TECOM Conf, China's first tech and entrepreneur communities conference.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

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• The international moving/relocation industry is a white man’s world
• As an Asian young lady, it was hard to move up into a management role
• 2010 to 2015 was a golden period for the relocation industry
• since 2016 the market has always been going down
• We take good care of you, and you please take care of the clients
• When the market is down, it is the best time for hiring
• Chinese companies go global
• Maybe I fail but I want to see how far I can go

Sophie Chen, CEO at SEA Relocation

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa and more.

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• There are 264 m of people over 60 years old in China and it is going to reach half a billion by 2050
• There will be not enough young people to taker care of seniors
• Most of the initiatives were geared towards the real estate 
• The culture of service did not really exist
• Chinese investors are hesitant to invest in foreign-owned startups without a strong Chinese team

Nayoung Chung, the founder at STIA China, is a senior care industry competence builder. She is an entrepreneur with a track record. Nayoung has a professional and entrepreneurial background from S.Korea, the USA, Norway, Singapore, and since January 2014, based in Shanghai, China.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa and more.

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• Nobody can be part of a startup and then have another startup as a side hustle
• WhiteSpace is a "collaboration" space
• There is just an inherent drive to need to be face to face with other human beings
• Nike "swoosh" recovery
• I want to add tech that really adds value to the customer experience
• The willingness to try things and fail at them 
• If it does not have Starbucks in the lobby it's not really a professional office building 

Barbara Ex, Founder and CEO of WhiteSpace, the world’s first on-demand collaboration space provider. A lifelong interest in the application of cutting-edge technology to open up new markets, enable strategy and transform existing business models. In China since 2005, fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

🚗 In China Between Meetings is a series of on-the-go interviews in which we discuss innovation, technology and entrepreneurship at the speed of China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. We catch them between meetings. In a car ride across town, they share inspiring stores, personal experiences, industry insights and practical advice on how to scale your way to success in China and beyond. This podcast is brought to you by the team of weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth, dedicated to supporting local and international teams as they navigate China’s dynamic business landscape.

Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

Please follow our Linkedin page 

Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn + Alexa and more.

Support the show

🎙 Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

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Thank you for listening/watching.