Ep. 67: The Story Behind Technode, Early Beginnings to Now with Gang Lu

Gang Lu is the founder of Technode which is a big website for tech news in Asia. They also organized TechCrunch China.

EPISODE CONTENT:

• Shlomo and Mike plan their next workation, either in the Philippines or Vietnam

• Mike talks about E-commerce experiments

• Announcement: ‘Write a review’ for our iTunes channel

• How Technode started

• Why Gang Lu chose to write the blog in English rather than in Chinese

• How Technode developed into a formal blog

• How the partnership with TechCrunch started

• Technode’s business model today

• Question: Where do you see Technode in the next five years?

• Technode’s difference from other English tech publications in China

• Question: Is Technode being held back at all?

• How people can connect with Gang Lu

Episode Mentions:

Intro

• Mike's E-commerce experiments

• Technode

Interview

• MobiNode

• TechCrunch

• Gang Lu's Twitter Account

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