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on January 24, 2008
Tam, an English teacher in China, published an interesting blog post yesterday on what might be a new frontier in green energy for China: biogas.
In Guangxi, according to her blog (which references ...
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on January 18, 2008
The china Development Bank and the IDB Group of tel aviv have kicked $50 million into Infinity I-China, a developing VC fund that targets joint ventures between Chinese and Israeli companies in the ar...
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on January 9, 2008
Zero2IPO has started China's first venture capital and private equity database.
The subscription service, ChinaVentureDatabase "is the single source for accurate, comprehensive and timely i...
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on January 7, 2008
The EE Times is reporting that Israel-based Giza Venture Capital is started a fifth VC fund, Giza V, with help from Taiwan's National Development Fund (NDF).
The new $150 million fund is getting ...
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on January 2, 2008
Redline China is among several sources reporting that 360Quan is getting an influx of cash from Koolanoo Group.
The 360Quan site is China's third largest social networking site and has experience...
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on December 15, 2007
Zero2IPO recently released the China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Ranking for 2007 and this year's number one venture capital firm is SAIF Partners.
SAIF Partners describes itself ...
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on November 28, 2007
Looking for a job, a change of location, or maybe a nice raise? Half the venture capital world may be looking for you, depending on what you know...
A.E. Feldman pointed out this week in their blog t...
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on November 22, 2007
The US-based venture capital firm Walden International is looking to increase its investment in Taiwan, according to Digitimes in Taipei.
Digitimes quotes Walden managing director Brian Chiang who s...
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on November 19, 2007
Redbaby is a business-to-consumer (B2C) website based in Beijing. The company started off dealing in children's products, selling them through an online portal. It has broadened its product line, ...
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on November 18, 2007
venture capital investment continues to grow in China, but it is changing direction in China according to a recent report by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne on third quarter venture capital...
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on November 5, 2007
Clean technology has been a hot topic recently for venture capital buffs interested in China. So when I saw this article in Business Week I knew I'd have to at least mention it...
"Venture C...
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on October 18, 2007
One of the biggest difficulties Western business people face when they go into China to find partners is a cultural one. Most Westerners don't fully understand that Chinese business people value w...
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on October 13, 2007
Min Zhu is the founder of Cybernaut, a Hangzhou-based venture capital firm. He lived through the Cultural Revolution in China, graduated from Zhe Jiang University with a degree in engineering, came to...
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on October 10, 2007
The China Daily News is reporting that Ambow Education Group has been promised $54 million in venture capital funds. That makes Ambow the largest recipient of VC funds so far in the education sector i...
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on September 18, 2007
Juren Education Group, a fairly well known named brand for education in China, received US$20 million in venture capital funds earlier this month to expand its after school tutoring programs.
Severa...
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on September 14, 2007
The Shanghai Daily is reporting that China may expand venture capital opportunities in the near future.
According to a recent report in the paper, "China is drafting rules to let insurers start ...
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on September 12, 2007
With improved quality of life, economic growth, the demand for professional skills, and a growing amount of money in the pockets of the average Chinese citizen, it was probably only a matter of time b...
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on August 31, 2007
Today I came across a refreshingly humorous but very useful account of how language and culture play into communication problems for Western managers (and investors) in the Chinese workplace. The acco...
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on August 28, 2007
The world is hungry for solar energy technology and China is quickly developing the world's leading (or at least fastest growing) solar energy corporate scene.
Chinalysts just published a Chinese...
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on August 18, 2007
venture capital investment in Mainland China grew in the second quarter of 2007, with investment in information services like social networking sites, blogs, and user input websites (or "wikis&qu...
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on August 12, 2007
You'd almost call it China bashing - if the author, Yue Xi, wasn't Chinese. Yue Xi takes a look at some of the pitfalls of doing business in China in her blog post, Five Unpleasant Truths of D...
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on August 10, 2007
Hats off to the good people at China Law Blog for their recent post, Ten Tips On Negotiating The China Deal.
I should also congratulate the China Law Blog on winning the "Best China Blog" a...
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on August 2, 2007
Hats off to the people at Burnham's Beat. Last month their blog posted a handy set of practical steps for raising venture capital funds.
The blog post is a nice guide to getting started in the se...
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on July 31, 2007
Hats off to Richard Brubaker for his post on the recently released Chengdu Investment Briefing at his All Roads Lead to China blog.
The briefing focuses on tourism, but it has some interesting tidbit...
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on July 30, 2007
Hats off to the people at Big Four Blog for picking up the Ernst and Young Global venture capital Report 2007 and telling us about it.
According to Big Four Blog, the report shows that about $35 bill...
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on July 6, 2007
China High Speed Transmission Equipment Group saw its share price double on Wednesday when its IPO hit the market in Hong Kong. That made it the best performing IPO on the HKEX this year.
China High ...
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on June 30, 2007
The Associated Press is reporting that some 180 food factories in China have been closed because "inspectors found industrial chemicals being used in products from candy to seafood."
Among ...
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on June 25, 2007
China's Internet scene is big business. It is also the place where a lot of effort and a lot of venture capital disappear into oblivion...
The Chicago Tribune recently ran a story that chronicled...
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on June 11, 2007
With all the recent activity to start a virtual world for China's Internet audience and with companies like The9 getting large chucks of venture capital money to bring Chinese gamers a higher qual...
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on June 6, 2007
The Disney-affiliated venture capital firm Steamboat Ventures invested this week in a Shanghai advertising company that inserts ads into streaming online video. The Chinese firm is CTS Media.
Steambo...
