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A Venture Capital Bubble in China?
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 the U.S. in 1984 and studied at Stanford University, founded a couple of American firms in the Silicon Valley, including WebEx, and became [...]
Venture Capital Keeps Its Tax Break
Forbes is reporting that the U.S. Senate appears to have decided to ignore a proposal to raise taxes on venture capital profits. A proposal in the House of Representatives would change the rate at which carried interest is taxed. If that proposal became law, most of the profits from venture capital and private equity funds [...]
The Dream Blog: China Travel for Charity Education and Understanding
The Chinese believes in the superstition that if you talk about bad things, they will come true. However, the Dreamblogue's vision states that if you share your dream with others, you are willing it into being. The dream is to travel in 2007 to every mainland province in China. During this journey, the China Dreamblogue [...]
Ambow Newest Education Company to Get VC Funds in China
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 in China. The funding came through the Macquarie Bank Group. MBG has several investors for the project, including CID Capital, Cisco [...]
China Digital A Big Hit on NYSE
We talked a few weeks ago about little known China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) and how they planned to float an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Well boy did it float! In looking at the stock's debut performance, Tom Taulli said, “it was inevitable it would do well” based simply on the heat [...]
How’s Your Arbitration Going?
There's nothing like having to show up in court in a place where you really don't know the rules and maybe can't even understand the language. I think it's fair to say that the court system in China, while it may be improving, is not as transparent as most Western judicial systems. The most common [...]
Venture Capital 101: VC Funding is Expensive
We've said that venture capital is data driven and time consuming. We've said that having the right VC partner can be very valuable. Let's add to the list of things you should know: venture capital funding can be expensive. The normal venture capital path is simple. A VC company is going to look at your [...]
UOneNet to Alpha Test Virtual World in December
It's been awhile since we mentioned the ongoing race to create virtual worlds for Chinese consumers. UOneNet is making news at the moment as its plans to alpha test it's new virtual world in December became public last week. UOneNet is one of six online gaming companies in China working to develop and market virtual [...]
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