2003/09/09

Young entrepreneur -- I met him 2 years ago as we are EMBA classmate, after then, I heard some news about him, this few months, we developed a new relationship, via his introduction, I get to know the dominate player in our industry and via him, I know a few of his business links with few of my associates; he is young, 36 years old, controlling 6 company doing Real network, streaming server and content platform business, his forehead had a deep skin line between his eyes-- according to Chinese face reading fortune telling, he shall be a man of ego; but he is mature, sophisticated and efficient, knowing how to handle conversation with governmental body, with elder people and to grant his help leveraging his relationship in Taiwan, I overheard that his family have strong tie with the Prime Minister Yu, maybe this is the reason why he was choose to sit on the board of CHT and vitalize his business in varies industry; Karaoke box is an old trick, it impressed me a little, no matter how savvy the machine is, the key will always be " How many songs you have, how fast you manger to get the newest one and where you locate your machine " I saw a lot of people invest in this business , but all failed, this is not an ideal machine to control the sing along industry -- the derivate from the recording industry and gain its popularity among Chinese / Japanese speaking territories; I always think there's a line between the audience in West and East , people in the east -- say Chinese, love to sing with the song and sing / show off in front of others, western tend to be appreciated with the song -- thy listen, enjoy , participating in concert , but not sing the difficult lines; this is why " Ballad " become so popular in Chinese speaking community, they are simple, easy to learn and sing in the Karaoke bar, this sub-community generate a decent revenue and industry for last 10 years; in the west, it didn't happen yet, culture is one thing, the songs itself is another limitation, unlike Beatles, they are too popular to be lonely, the minus-one is easy to find, for new and coming talent, they have their own identity in the market, how fans can really imitate all the tones and sounds they interpreter in one song ? so, this is a line there, young entrepreneur knows little about it, the machine can be global device, but the content -- will decided the deaf or alive for the initiative.

posted by Roger @ 9/09/2003 08:31:00 上午