David Sifry, Founder of Technorati and Offbeat Guides shares his thoughts on what comes to mind as a tech entrepreneur contemplating expansion into the China market.
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About David Sifry
Dave Sifry is an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the I.T industry. His latest startup is Offbeat Guides. David also founded Technorati, the largest blog search engine in the world, and was CEO from 2002-2007. He is Chairman of Technorati’s Board of Directors. Dave was a co-founder and the CTO of Sputnik. Prior to Sputnik, he was co-founder, CTO, and Vice President of Engineering at Linuxcare, Inc, having built Linuxcare’s services infrastructure.
Dave is a recognized expert on leadership development, blogs and the massive changes in the digital media environment, Open Source development, and the Linux operating system. He is also the creator of Projectdocs, an online document management and collaboration service, and Hoosgot, a lazyweb service. He served on the founding Board of Directors of Linux International, the Advisory Board of the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Technical Advisory Board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement.
He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Dave lived and worked in Kobe, Japan for Mitsubishi Electric, and speaks Japanese in a rusty kansai-ben. While he now lives in foggy San Francisco, one of his top travel destinations is Yosemite, in his hometown state of California, although the lure of London and Paris frequently beckons.
on Oct 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I like Dave’s emphasis on personal relationships; the digital tools are great, and they can start relationships that were not possible before, but in the end it all comes back to “caveman/cavewoman-level” instinct, gut reactions and connection.
Hey, Christine, you should have called him out about finding “the guy” with connections in China.
on Oct 26th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
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