All Roads Lead to China:

Guest Post from John Solomon, Director of enoVate The fixed gear bike movement has hit the streets of China. Just three years ago, you could count the number of fixed gear bikes here on your fingers (and maybe toes). But spend an afternoon strolling Shanghai’s French Concession, and your sure to see various youth — Chinese [...]

Later that week, while walking from Xintiandi to Huai Hai plaza (roughly 1km) to an event, I took out my iPhone camera to capture one of those moments where I realized that all the good economic recovery news was not translating to the street. In short, over the course of my 1km journey, I captured [...]

There was a time when the only coffee outfit was Starbucks, and its knock off SPR. Along Nanjing Road, the highest concentration existed with 5 stores between the Portman hotel and People’s park, and in total there were roughly 80 by the end of last year (as you can see from the map above). Over [...]

When the doors opened, its marketing managers proved themselves as throngs of people made their way through the store. Both the domestic and international press cores were there to cover the action, and as you can see in the CBS piece below, it is a model that a number of people are studying with interest. [...]

While there are still some reports lately that forge some level of hope that the consumers in China have not been affected by the crisis, and that their spending will help to support the Chinese economy, I have held a very different opinion. It is a feeling/ opinion that has been difficult to prove given [...]