entrepreneurship in china

Re: Tracy's post on the Stanford Alumni Reception - I suggested we go up to Bravman and tell him he was a 大牛, but we weren't sure how he would feel about being called a "big cow," no matter how complimentary a phrase it is in Chinese...

As has been alluded to in past posts, Tracy and I have spent many of our free hours in China meeting up with various people connected with tech, business, and entrepreneurship here. We're interested in potentially working in a field in/related to China, so we're trying to find out as much as possible while we're here.

We've so far spoken at length to a consulting company that helps multinationals enter the China market; the United States Information Technology Office; Stanford alumni working at start-ups in virtual world technology and the Internet space; local Beijingers working at a start-up on mobile local search; and yesterday, many interesting people at the Stanford Alumni Reception, including a member of the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors, a professor at Tsinghua University, a venture capitalist in China, and a president at a consulting company who might be able to hook us up with SOEs so we could get a better sense of how they operate.

All pretty exciting :) Understandably, this has kept us pretty busy in between our classes at Beida, our classes we're taking online at Stanford, attempting to go to the gym every day, and still leaving time to hang out with other people in the program.

So much to blog about from the past week! 4 hours of KTV, a surprise haircut, going out last night and learning to play the dice game....

well, another time.