China: Where Patience Meets Speed
TechCrunch May 10 09As readers know, I’m working on a new book about global entrepreneurship that is taking me around the world at the pace of roughly one country per month for the next year and a half. The plan is to focus on several contrasting hot spots for entrepreneurship and revisit them throughout the next year or so to see how the entrepreneurs and economies evolve over that time. But since it’s early in the process, I’m still hitting many places for the first time, and it’s a challenge. I'm continually throwing myself into a culture and trying absorb as much as I can from being on the ground, meeting with hundreds of entrepreneurs, and trying to ferret out some TechCrunch-worthy and book-worthy stories. Full story...
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