Monthly Archives: January 2011

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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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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 Continue reading

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