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What are WeChat Mini-Programs? A Simple Introduction
-Xiaohongshu—which means “Little Red Book”—is like Instagram if Instagram had introduced Instagram Shop years earlier and made it its premier feature. Xiaohongshu has always been more commerce-centric than Instagram, focused on discovery-driven and serendipitous shopping—the digital equivalent of browsing the mall. It’s the counterpart to more... See more
Rex Woodbury • 5 Lessons from China's Internet Companies
From Huya (game streaming) to Pinduoduo (cheap Taobao) to Dianping (Yelp for China) to Yinke, Yizhibo, Douyu, Bilibili, and Meipai (live streaming platforms) to Xiaohongshu (shopping reviews) to Duoyin (TikTok of China) to Weibo (Facebook of China), China is a rich, booming ecosystem for social. But beyond pure social, each of these aforementioned... See more
Jess Li • What the US can learn from China on social commerce
These Wechat buying groups have enabled a group of community-entrepreneurs to have profitable side hustles through knowing how to create and maintain a chat group.