Derek Scruggs

As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m exploring business opportunities in China. I’ve been informally learning about the country ever since I met my wife three years ago. Over the last 10 months or so I’ve been more serious about it. On August 11 I leave for a month-long trip to China see it up close. I […]

After last week’s huge IPO of Baidu, fueled partly on speculation that Google will buy them, it’s not a surprise to come across Baigoo.
Hat tip: Danwei

I never watch TV, at least not since I moved to Boulder in 1999. I own a television, but I don’t have cable because I know it would be such a distraction that I would never get anything done. (“Oh look, an old Bulls game is on ESPN Classic.”) And because I live near the […]

Friend, business partner, noted writer and all-around great guy Dave Taylor has just released The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Growing Your Business with Google and it looks to be pretty comprehensive. I had the good fortune of reading some of the drafts as Dave was writing it. Dave’s knowledge of Google as a business tool is […]

From the “WTF!?” department. I learned today that Hooters is in China.

Wal Mart, which all by itself is China’s eighth largest trading partner, is often the butt of jokes and not a little anger in the US because they are basically just a giant conduit for cheap Chinese products.
Try telling that to the Chinese. Wal Mart just opened a showcase store in Shanghai. “Only” 100,000 […]