From the program: Mr. Graylin is the CEO of mInfo, the leading Mobile Search Service in China providing natural language search services to users throughout China via SMS, WAP, IM and embedded client applet.  Mr. Graylin is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and business leader with over 15 years of management experience, seven of which are in Greater China. Mr. Graylin co-founded mInfo in early 2005. He is intimately knowledgeable about the wireless search and mobile marketing space in China.

Started off with his background, moved to US as a kid, top of class in high school, uni, grad school, says it doesn’t mean much and you should tell your kids you don’t have to work that hard! Moved back to China, spent a few months looking for a good team. Make sure you have a complementary team.  He brought in a good CTO (Derek Huang).

Know your market. Mobile subscribers are growing at 5-7 million users per month!

Make sure it’s scalable.

He saw that Google had no mobile solution in China and neither did Baidu. They knew they’d be successful in China because the successful companies are all locally owned in China. Foreign management practices often hinder growth, and local management leverages local know-how/ingenuity.

Know the industry 1G –> 4G

Handsets are not just phones anymore. Open/rich OS platforms. Faster networks / unlimited data. 95% of people in China use SMS, and they use it a lot more than they use voice. Mobile ubiquity/dependence, and mobile ads are becoming a real revenue model.

More, but I had to run out! 

And now the day is over — how fantastic was that?!?

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