January 2011
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Should you really be an entrepreneur?
My colleague recommended my this great article form techcrunch about Mark Suster, an serial entrepreneur becomed VC. Great to understadn both side of the business. The most interesting part is when he says entrepreneur life is not for everybody, a… Read more
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The reason for this blog…
…was originally to share what I learnt from organizing the first iWeekend event in China, in Beijing on Nov 17-18, 2010. It was an AMAZING experience, i didn’t know anything about start-up before -or just what an average person know about it, th… Read more
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End of a decade at Google! Schmidt stepping down, Page new CEO from April
Clipped from: techcrunch.com (share this clip)via s.tt I was shocked to read the news today….but after all it make sense. Google won great battle and are the incontestable leader of Western internet. But the last 5 years showed the rise of Faceb… Read more
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First Beijing Coworking Drinks is tonight!
Mike is organizing the first Beijing Coworking drinks tonight at Paddy’o Shea (Irish bar at Dongzhimen) at 7pm! If you are around please join say hi and learn more about who is Beijing Coworking! Funny story is that I comment Sebastian Marshall bl… Read more
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Groupon on Chinese ground
What was unofficial one week ago is now spreading in international media: Clipped from: techcrunch.com (share this clip)via s.tt I like to see US rockstar startup coming to China. They will encounter fierce competition as clones started blooming h… Read more
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Internet Entrepreneurship in Europe and China
???In Europe, there are also a lot of talent. But people are more comfortable with cooperate life. Afraid of failure. I was like that. I worked for a large telecom company and I was afraid of starting my own business,??? said Niklas, ???Here in China. P… Read more
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What are the different startups stage/categories?
Organizing a start-up competition, I realized that it was important to be clear on what start-up “stage” your a looking into. When organizing iWeekend, I learn that we can grade a start-up from 0 to 100.0 is the moment when the entrepreneurs have … Read more
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I tried out…Beijing HackerLab!
Every Saturday since about one month or so now, is organized the HackerLab in the Art Gallery Yuanfen Flow in Beijing Art District, 798.798, located in the North East of Beijing, is a one of the favourite tourists and local visit area. What was on… Read more
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To keep the balance for life you may need to lose the balance for a job…corporate job
Sometimes being self employed is hard. You are only accountable to yourself and it is easy to let you go a bit too much. Deadlines are soft and postponed at will, you easily lose focus and you sometimes end up thinking “who cares?” The weeks after… Read more
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Better bookmarking/curated web system needed…
It just took me 2 hours to find back this article I read a few month ago about how to build local tech community, gosh!http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/10/how-to-create-a-sustainable-entrepreneurial-community.html Read more
Carole in the "Fresh" 