Tom Spender

Freelance journalist & photographer in Beijing

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Entries Tagged as 'venture capital'

Thoughts on VC – in Chinese!

June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · China, Journalism

I occasionally get published in Chinese as a “foreign expert” in China’s CEO & CIO magazine – basically I get sent a few questions, provide some answers and some hardworking Chinese people turn it into a text that hopefully appeals somewhat to the Chinese reader. Here’s some of the text via Google Translate (which I [...]

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VC in China

April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · China, Journalism

Not for the faint-hearted – my general overview of venture capital in Private Equity International Asia‘s monthly magazine. Essentially, VCs say early-stage deals in China are scary because there’s a risk that someone in the company will run off with the idea; dollar investors are limited in what they can invest in because China doesn’t [...]

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