The Media versus Marginal Cost
If you have two companies producing the same product then, over time, the price to the consumer will eventually start […]
Category: Blog
Free content isn’t killing journalism
Another one of our clients — a Wall Street newspaper — shut down publication this month. A couple of staffers […]
Two paths from DabbleDB
Over the past few years, my company has become very dependent on DabbleDB, an online relational database run by a […]
Working in the sun
I do not, normally, consider myself a low-energy person — I am, after all, running two companies (Trombly International and […]
Migrating away from DabbleDB
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s […]
Migrating away from DabbleDB
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s […]
International Channel Shanghai
Maria Korolov Trombly (center) appeared several times as a guest on the Culture Matters television talk show, airing on the […]
‘A Changing China’ released
The China Speaker’s Bureau First book — A Changing China — is now out in print and available from Amazon. […]
How to Become a Shanghai Entrepreneur
This article originally appeared in Shanghai Expat. By Maria Korolov Trombly I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to […]
How to Become a Shanghai Entrepreneur
I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to Shanghai when I was in town the last couple of months. As the U.S. and European economies head south, I guess that people are looking at the growth numbers, noticing that China is still in the positive digits, and hopping a plane over here, hoping to […]
I love my work — do my employees?
My theory is, in China, the higher up you are the less work you do — poor people on farms, […]
The new scarcity: valuable work
In the past, wars were fought over resources. The definition of power was the ability to collect a great deal […]
A walk down the fake DVD lane
Back in the old days … 2004 … we had to buy our foreign-language books in hotel shops — and […]
Rebranding
A Massachusetts court signed off on my divorce last week – after about three years of separation in which my […]
Finally — email inbox success
I’ve finally found a system that works for keeping my inbox at a manageable size (one screen or less), a […]