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Chunyu: The First Mover in Chinese M-Health Industry
Jingui Xie; Haji Suleman Ali; Feiyan Jia; Muhammad Adnan Zahid Chudhery; Bin DingCase IVEY-9B19M044-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyChunyu Yisheng (Chunyu) was the largest mobile health (m-health) application in China. Since its creation in July 2011, the application had focused on providing online medical information and consultations with professional doctors. Chunyu's business model was based on free and premium online health care services. In the first three years, Chunyu gained more experience than profits. The primary concern for the founder and chief executive officer ...Starting at €8.20
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Mobiuspace: Venturing into Emerging Markets
Dai Yao; Xingyu Chen; Li Ji; Ling Jiang; Shijie LuCase IVEY-9B20A040-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn mid 2019, Mobiuspace, a Chinese Internet company, faced a new challenge. As a result of declining revenues from domestic mobile Internet markets, overseas markets offered new opportunities. In 2009, Snaptube, a short video aggregation and distribution platform that Mobiuspace offered as its main product, seized the opportunity to grow in emerging markets by creating localized and personalized video content. Despite the company’s initial succes...Starting at €8.20
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Youliaodao in the Era of Knowledge Economy: Go Big or Go Home
Dai Yao; Xingyu Chen; Ling Jiang; Li JiCase IVEY-9B20A031-EMarketingIn 2016, China witnessed a significant rise in the knowledge economy. Many users, who had been used to consuming information on the Internet for free, had become increasingly willing to pay for user-generated-content (UGC). Recognizing this emerging opportunity, Qiushibaike (QB), a well-established UGC platform with a focus on entertaining content, rolled out a new pay-for-knowledge product, namely Youliaodao (YLD), which focused on informational...Starting at €8.20
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HaoDF: The Pioneer of Online Healthcare in China
Jingui Xie; Feiyan Jia; Haji Suleman AliCase IVEY-9B19M103-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn late 2016, HaoDF Online launched an "Internet hospital" in Yinchuan, China, which, in its first three months, served more than 31 million users and conducted online diagnosis and treatment for almost 1 million patients. The online health care servicesStarting at €8.20