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judy smith Jun 2015
The enthusiasm of ***** Gobé and Maria Paloma Fuentes is palpable. Riding high on the initial success of their summer collection of children’s clothes, the two French business graduates are planning their next sales moves, both online and through multi-brand boutiques.

The chic edge-to-edge jackets, Bermuda shorts and berets would probably look at home on the rails of Printemps or Galeries Lafayette. Yet their start-up company, Mini Bobi, is not based in Paris. It is in Suzhou, a couple of hours’ drive from Shanghai.

The two Skema alumnae are among the growing number of French graduates who are looking for their first job in China. One catalyst has been the rush of European business schools to establish campuses in China, run joint degree programmes with Chinese universities and set up internship programmes in Beijing and Shanghai.

What is more, the growth in the Chinese economy, together with the low cost of entry in cities such as Shanghai, has resonated with graduates worldwide who want to be entrepreneurs.

The real advantage of China, though, is simply the scale, says Ms Fuentes. “The opportunities are much more attractive here than in France. If you come up with a new idea it will be really big.”

The Mini Bobi clothing range, which combines Parisian style with the stretchy materials and copious waistbands needed by the increasing number of obese children in China’s cities, was the brainchild of Ms Gobé.

After studying fashion and business in Lille and Shanghai, Ms Gobé completed a gap year in the US and decided to write her thesis on the plus-size market.

“In this thesis I made a comparison between the market in the US and China. [Previously] I wasn’t aware of this market,” she says, adding that in China there are 120m obese children under the age of 18.

In the city of Shanghai more than 18 per cent of children at primary school are overweight — the same percentage as in the US, she says. “I was surprised when I realised [this was the case],” she says.

Enthusiasm for all things Chinese spreads well beyond entrepreneurs, says Nick Sanders, director of the Masters in International Business at Grenoble Graduate School of Business. Of the section of the MIB class that spent a year in Beijing, many are enthusiastic about working there.

“Ninety per cent of them actually want to stay in China,” says Mr Sanders, although practically, only between a quarter and a third will get their first job on graduation in the country. A further 50 per cent will be employed working with China in some capacity, adds Mr Sanders.

“They tend to be employed where there needs to be an understanding between China and another country.”

Entrepreneur Matthieu David-Experton, an Essec graduate, who also studied for a second degree at the Guanghua school at Peking University, is now on his second business venture in China — he sold the first, a packaged gift business, after 18 months.

His three-year-old market research company, Daxue Consulting, has offices in Beijing and Shanghai, with a third office planned in Hong Kong. It has 15 employees but by the end of the year he plans to have a staff of 20 and revenues of Rmb7m ($1.1m).

“What I have always done in China is take a model that works well in Europe, then adapt it.” Most of his clients to date have been international companies looking for information on the China market — western nursing home groups, eager to take advantage of the changing Chinese demographics, have been strong clients. That is changing. “Chinese companies are now looking for better information on their

competitors.”

For Mr David-Experton there are clear advantages to working in China, particularly the flexibility and speed to market. Products can be designed and developed in just a few days, he says. “I had the feeling you couldn’t get these things done in this timescale in Europe.” It means entrepreneurs can get a product to market without having to raise too much money, he adds.

But he warns that the Chinese business environment is not plain sailing. “They [prospective entrepreneurs] need to come here and see what is happening. A lot of people come here with ideas that don’t fit with the market.”

It is a message echoed by Manmeet Singh, senior affiliate lecturer at EMLyon Business School, who has worked in China for the past 13 years. “This market has a learning curve, it has a learning curve for everybody. Even the 50-year-old chief executives of multinationals have a learning curve. They can come here and get their **** kicked.”

European entrepreneurs are taking a double risk he says: starting a business and setting up in an alien environment.

He also warns that much of the “low-hanging fruit” available to French entrepreneurs a few years ago no longer exists. He cites the example of those who want to set up a wine importing business in China: now the tables are turned and Chinese companies are buying vineyards around the world.

But there are some positive elements about China for European entrepreneurs, he says.

“There’s a lot of money available in the market for the right product. They [the Chinese] are agnostic on the origins of their entrepreneurs.”

And the enthusiasm for start-up careers in China are still strong among French business students, he says. “A good 10 per cent of the class [in China] approach me with ideas.”

Mr Singh is heavily involved in Shanghai’s Chinaccelerator, which gives support to both Chinese and international entrepreneurs. Though popular in the US and Europe, incubators are more novel in China.

It was following Skema Business School’s tie-up with a local Suzhou incubator in 2013 that the founders of Mini Bobi decided to locate their company there. Now they are distributing their range of 30 China-manufactured clothing items in Hangzhou and Suzhou as well as Shanghai.

With a monthly income so far of around Rmb3,000, the founders are looking to wider distribution to increase sales and are now selling online through Taobao, China’s answer to Amazon or eBay, founded by the Alibaba Group. They are also talking to schools about designing more generous-sized school uniforms.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses-brisbane | www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses-sydney
xyloolyx Dec 2014
yet another year zero
reinventing the squeaky wheel
constrained writing just for kicks
reviving a tragic hero
tabula rasa and leaky spiel
trained for fighting prickly ******
hollowing future and reticulating splines
swallowing nature then duplicating rhymes
only a blank drawing
at a bank withdrawing
funds splashing down like acid rain
workers trashing town with great disdain
fluxing bureaucracy
with ad hoc hypocrisy
go country for old zen
and then
shot glass shopping sprees
statues with haunting verdigris
from target to target
the stupid (never forget)
airport shuttles and toxic puddles
epic riddles while popping bottles
thrusting bodies and a fruity box
alternating current and topic drift
trusting hotties with shuttlecocks
baiting adherent with basic *****
eating that dog in a bar by the ditch
bar all rowdy with many shots taken
beer hall drowsy as closing time looms
far too loudly with identity mistaken
the band had us frankly and amply forsaken
awakening in a ditch as the a-bomb booms
a thousand soldiers ready for battle
at town's end with less depleted morals
worried about the deleted portals
we buried hell well without the cattle
no more long weeks of slicing ****** meat
origins about which they should not care
oh to sell knockoffs to the rich elite
hear their yells and use an odd nom de guerre
the profit and the revenue forecast
**** on the new road
the prophet and the parvenue act fast
pill for the wet load
he had dropped the load leaving pungent smells
in the dark it glowed and lit the deep wells
launching a rocket every four hours
we encounter yet more perplexing times
measuring success with fewer metrics
punching the clocks in tall black towers
changing the locks and the warning signs
altering quarters with newer ethics
cannibals watched while we profusely bled
fine forget it forget it forget it
ingest the capsule to induce the sweat
just relieve don't botch
figure figure figure
don't bereave think scotch
ticker ticker ticker
sounded like it came from someone shady
getting beat to end with some other blend
year to date murders now about eighty
yet today's statistics lie and pretend
fudging the digits to fake the assent
so what happened last week stays in last week
all of those painful jarring sights and sounds
making it all seem to look rather bleak
kept sly with pennies and kept shrewd with pounds
on alibaba we will not delete
separated heads from dark desert towns
metropolis with millions of dark souls
lighting up papers for a rapid trip
necropolis with brilliant harkening trolls
fighting the power in order to strip
their medals that they never earned at all
writing this line here and ******* the fall
straightforward message from a plain green rod
a photographer in obscure disguise
throw him into the main canal and nod
the coffee shop looks banal with just guys
losing interest quick and wanting to dip
touching that shiny pink wide-open clip
unknown underground studded with diamonds
mind-blowing trap sounds burst from the caliph
volume gets higher and heads start to ring
they came in sequence and then came silence
waking up confused in a condo lift
taking refuge in an ugly building
just invited myself into your home timeline
somewhat sublime reciting trifling rhymes
alter rhyming scheme to eschew couplets
now fully mobile and automatic
pentameter schemes and android tablets
tents and suburbs that look quite nomadic
recruited minions for the rebellions
human microphones sans inhibitions
quicken resistance to the man's big plan
invoking the crowd to buck traditions
spell that with an accent with great élan
broken mobile phone texting hexagram
a rapid drop in communication
a postal service mailing vexing spam
token for transit lost at the station
we can no longer go back to the farm
here in the city living these last days
sounding the airhorn and the fire alarm
seahorses as fish and whales as mammals
hard to keep track here of various things
went to the desert and smoked some camels
patient zero died sounding the alert
some will paint dark scenes with exigent themes
paintings so dire that your eyes avert
inverse distance decay in the network
old flags questing through the flood and tumult
of course these rhymes make them go **** berserk
losing sight of sites that house the occult
refusing to eat and wanting to drink
these words resonate with all those who think
utopia fell soon after completion
never understood humanity well
rationality ends with deletion
all the fine stuff just goes to *******
humans emitting alienating vibes
they form foul cliques like pups from putrid tribes
three ships all wrecked up in some unknown land
divulging harsh things and eating raw food
far too many times getting shunned and booed
had all my writings fully blocked and banned
still no dumb luck yet after x decades
recalled old friendships that have long decayed
more constrained writing that will make them groan
some will even see the trail left behind
writing all of this mostly in e-prime
punctuation-free zone made just for fun
lighting dark alleys with a mobile phone
some get all the love while others get none
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
ditch ditch ditch ditch ditch ditch ditch ditch ditch ditch
glitch glitch glitch glitch glitch glitch glitch glitch glitch glitch
kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch kitsch
stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch
twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch
yesterday's blunt stunt went to the gutter
no regrets no threats no whatever man
just like autechre and that song flutter
forget the police just rave on til dawn
**** how darkness has lasted this **** long
ominous songs here still pumping along
exponential sneers and the obscene scene
existential fears lit up with benzine
socially-accepted narcissism
honest thoughts here treated with cynicism
forget all -isms / go back to the scheme
spending days like these sniffing naphthalene
won't dwank to the masses or kiss *****
temperamental peers can go live that myth
experimental stage done and over with
(pause)
*
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*

✝ gone to a higher place ✝
Robby Cale Feb 2010
Schwinny, Baby,
You were supposed to be

my

Bicycle.

So I don't ask for anthing special.
No dark Harley divas
To whisk me off into the sunset.

But I thought we were at least
On the same road together.
So please.
Don't go droaning on how
Life got too complicated.
I mean,
You've got one flimsy gear.
And don't go moaning how
The road got too bumpy.
I mean,
You went blind bonzai batshit
over burnt black tar pavement.

You just
Let go.
Threw away your
Chain of reasoning
Faster than I could brace for impact.

So am I bleeding?
Yeah, I'm bleeding.

And the worst part is,
I still need you!
No, No, no.
Not like Pom Pom pammy
Needs her purple-plated pogo stick
Nor like Princess Paris
And her prissy pink prom queen limo,

No.
I mean I need I need you like
Alibaba needs his golden cherub camel,
Like Ben Hur his crimson-fury chariot.

Because work is 37. Blocks. Away.
And it starts in 16 minutes.
And the bus is really unreliable.

So we ride again,
Guts against the wind.
But now I've got all ten fingers and toes
Crossed,
Two by two,
And point in fact,
Racing down Guadalupe with
Forked Philanges
Gets really hairy.

But your suicidal tendancies simply scare me.
Your thirst to incur first degree burns,
Fractured femurs,
And flayed skin whittles my patience
To tire track thin!

Think I'll
Roll my dice with a Segway.
She'd be a quaint, play it safe kind of girl.
Type to show off
To a Mom and Dad
Reveling in rosemary jubilation.
Aw, son.
We knew you'd land a keeper. That's my boy.

But in ten days tops,
I'd begin to miss your fiery imbalanced breath.
I'd yearn for your bipolar 180 turns that
Make my heart skip that terrible, syncopated beat.

So let's just say,
I'll give it one more shot.
But *****, just promise you'll stick around a little longer.
It's storming outside and
We both got a few blocks to go.
Pea Sep 2014
You make me feel like a pet snake or some precious stone
While all I really am is a warm, feathery thing with a heart, beating.
These two small wings,
I'd rather fly and be shot during my flight
Than be a flattering cold and be put in your fancy drawer
Jun Lit Mar 2018
Naghihintay ang tasa
malinis, walang laman
sa tagpuang mesa
kahapo’y may kabatuhan
ng "¿Hola? at ¡Puñeta!"
at kanina’y may kapalitan
ng "Hello Sir! Wanna? Wanna?"
nasingitan pa saglit
ng malupit, galit sa langit
na si "Arigatou Nakamura"
At nakipag-rigodon
ang mga payaso’t pirata
at mga magnanakaw – mas ganid pa
sa apatnapu ni Alibaba

Nasaan ba si Ina?
Wala na po dito,
nandun na s’ya’t kahalikan
si "Xie xie, Duō shǎo? Ni hao ma?"

Pagkatapos kumulo
ng tubig sa kaldero ng lipunan
inilagay ko ang isang kutsarang
balawbaw ng galapong
nanggaling sa inipong
butil ng kagitingan
mula sa paanan
ng Malarayat na kabundukan
- kaagad-agad ay bumulwak,
nagngangalit na umawas

Kumakalat ang halimuyak
ng kapeng bagong luto
Naiinip na ang tasa
sa tagpuang mesa
ng bayang talisuyo
Kailan kaya may uupo,
yaong hindi bugaw na pinuno
na pagpuputahin ka
kung kani-kanino,
kundi bayaning lingkod
na hindi ka ipagkakanulo?

Kapatid, kahit isang lagok lang,
Malayo ang lakbayin, dapat nang simulan
Ang mahalaga’y kumikilos, humahakbang
Sulong tayo mga Kabayan . . .
To be translated - Brewed Coffee VI
Styles Nov 2014
I'll killa chawawa
Sell it for a dolla on Alibaba
Exchange for a Kawala
Black range red impala
Rocking nirvana pre Madonna
A Chubby monkey eating chunky monkey with ice cream and a banana
Bo bama Ina pajama spinning a spammer after a root beer slammer an alabamer and a cheese platter I slide off in a subtle manner like a salamander to empty my bladder in a place that doesn't matter
Johnny Noiπ Nov 2018
Russian ****** in the United
States. I have much knowledge
in the home and, sometimes, with
other people, many will return
to eastern politics. "Well, Russian,
be water." Michael, Black Black,
Black Black, Alibaba and spiral
slides, Good and Good, Julius
Jenny Johnny, Strong Namibia
ID 1 and higher, ******'s Idiotic
Fantasy 1 and many more. Sub-3.3,
without consensus or close beauty,
beauty of the mother, special plastics
of the throne, opera theater, Lee
Sisamin, some activities and poems.
Thomas John Clark and the team
Black Black Black Stars write a price
on the night of the solar eclipse
at night. I climbed to the top
of the dress with a bright sign; a flash
of ink, black ink, black ink, black velvet,
vacuum cleaner, park, white feathers,
tattoos, hot skinned ******
and cold water. I remember
the beautiful girl. The glorious
crowns of ****** and the city
of gold are seven hundred
and sixty ******* and the
maids are ridiculous ******
and fulfilled women.                             The white, white night can be silent.
Many years of eating habits,
prostitutes and most medical
products in the Middle East,
if you want to be a good human being,
you have to have a relationship
with the ****** of Russia,
and in Russia Satan's messenger
was exposed to the rest of the pipe,
especially to the wall of the young
spiders. The Councils of the Senate.
Driving pregnancy, poetry,
computers, homosexuality,
clocks in the sky of childhood
writings. Or more. Stop ordering
the system. Search for images;
Rock Thomas meets the team
of John Clark and the ******
clinging to the night sky of ******.
Bachelor's degree: corporal beauty,
beauty of the mother's modern throne,
satanic demonic angel, shari sh shang
establishes certain activities and poems.
Thomas John Clark and the Black Black
Bass Team write prizes for the night
on the night of the eclipse. Black, black,
white and black, black velvet, voodoo,
park, white feathers, tattoos, heat and cold water.
A beautiful woman remembers.
Honorable crowns and cities of gold
are seven hundred and eighteen years old,
and they are the servants, ridiculous
and the most respected women. The white,
white silence will remain. Years of eating
habits, prostitutes and most medical
products from the Middle East, good people,
Russia and Russia. The wall of the spiders
has been exposed to the rest of the pipeline,
especially to the youth of Satan's messenger,
The Senate. Driving, pregnancy, poetry,
computers, homosexuality, clock, sky,
childhood, writing. Or more. Stop the encryption
of the system. Rock Thomas communicates
with John Clark and enters the night sky
of the ******. Professor CHR: beauty of beauty,
beauty of the mother, beautiful painted ceiling,
church, mediator and mediator of poems.
Find Christmas Clark & ​​Black Black Black
Black Black Black Night to find Christmas
Eve's Eve. With tiled roof and finely colored
skins, colorful paint and black paint, black
celebrities, grass, fresh white paint, sinks,
cold and hot water. Mercy Clovis Coliseum;
Collovs: I remember the good boy. Perfect
and comfortable *****,
****** in the metropolis of seven hundred
and sixty merchants, the campaign and its
servants, rebellious ****** and women
have fascinating characteristics. The white
light beams can stop. Years of depression,
prostitutes ****** and many Western
medical products, good people, ******
smile and modernity. The messenger
of Satan, especially for young people,
is a negative weapon. Normal nurses;
Some drivers, cats, letters, computers,
homosexuality, clocks in the sky, green
writing. You more Plan your plan.
Find the best flowering cherry
blossom that escapes from the blue
sky by exploiting the ****** and
looking for rocky rocks with John
Clark. The beauty of the child,
the beauty of my mother,
the training with the handshake,
the task of the tattoo, the shark
launcher, the change and the poem.
He writes on the black team
in the dark night of the ******;
Thomas Clark and the Black,
Black team. The color of the brush,
the color of the color, the color
black, the color black, the black
bread, the frost, the cold, the white,
the protection, the ****** of heat
and the cold water reach the upper
part of the fabric I remember the
best boy. The big ******* gold
crowns and coins are seven hundred
and sixty thieves. They are beautiful
slaves, ridiculers, ******
and women. White White White
For many years, a diet of prostitution
and prostitutes and oriental medicine
are good for Russian ******
and for Russian women, if you want
to be a good man. The description
of Satan exposes the fox, especially
the lioness' lion. Seniors driving,
pregnancy, poetry, computers,
homosexuality, clock, sky, green
writing. You more Keeping
the schedule; The Thomas John
Clark rocket team was linked
to the sky in the night sky. CRC
Valuer: San Antonio Poverty;
Black Burglar in Italy; Lowest
Prices in Italy, Tourist Bank
and White and White Leather
Belts for the ****** .|. ...
The project to complete of the new harbour bridge like works as sugar that made.

The karmic circle of the round that spins that is  enforces the red bird egegore that is made.

Signs of the quantum egegore every where, scattered timelines transformed every day, synchronicity sparks every where.

All prophecies are shaping with the support of energy that designed.

Like the rising Phoenix fixes with a sign today.

Every round and turn fixes everything with a cure and a son to train and to hold.

The left that jumps in the circle that starts.

The bridging of China that supports the guy who with
Ev electric cars and Alibaba made, jack ma of 70% effort of trade  that was made.

The student that tribes of excellence  today
Scores of 70 percent of 125percent of effort made.
The conquest focus and development that he makes.

Support helping hands of the golden billion stars.
Data centers with unlimited  under water cooling and to start.

Their focus on climate change and protection of their of their son like a star.
The power from the son that is the star.

The family all together as one, helping  development taking to world to a next spin globally as one

India and China share similar ideology of dharma that is one

The new time line shift the empire egegore 1331.

Their toddler that walks focusing on helping fixing and to start, the new bridge with opportunities from the southern global star.

This initiation of that is made 1331!!

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