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If they were going to do it that way, better to pick a nice western city like Chengdu or Kunming. The latter even has clean air sometimes (though definitely not as good as it used to be).
Beijing and Shanghai also have large community of expats.
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Beijing and Shanghai also have large community of expats.
Doesn't SZ also? The number of expats in all of China is only about what Tokyo has, so I guess it really depends on what you mean by "large."
Do you have a source on that?
SZ didn't seem to have any foreigners when I was there. The expat community of BJ is pretty crazy for having spent a year there.
They need compete with www.sinovationventures.com.'Sinovation Ventures' has quite a few similarities to YC, for example:The founders like to support each other, etc
Kai Fu’s (famous for the ballmer chair) innovation works has been around forever, it’s not like China is lacking for YC-style tech incubators. However, they are all Chinese owned and managed without direct connections to SV.
There are quite a few in Hong Kong as well. https://medium.com/whub/hong-kong-accelerator-and-incubator-...
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"And even if you are successful, you have to consider the ethics of what you're enabling..." This is the thing I don't understand. Ten years ago, you could make a case that simply by making stuff people want, the world would become more connected, all sorts of goodness will happen. You can no longer make that case. People are not idiots. They see both the good and bad that tech has brought. Technology companies are e…
> The most amazing thing about Silicon Valley is that they all think they are on the left side of the political spectrum, while it is totally unquestioned that the venture capital firms should make every single decision on how human activity is organized. Existentialist Comics https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/98887750761196748...
It's probably more accurate to say that silicon valley runs libertarian, especially those in the startup game, and especially YC and folks.
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Doesn't SZ also? The number of expats in all of China is only about what Tokyo has, so I guess it really depends on what you mean by "large."
> The number of expats in all of China is only about what Tokyo has Do you have a source on that? SZ didn't seem to have any foreigners when I was there. The expat community of BJ is pretty crazy for having spent a year there.
http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2015/01/08/nali-lai-de-ov...
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/increase-...
Japan has twice as many foreigners as China does, with many of them concentrated in the Tokyo region.
How does this work since foreigners are still not allowed to have equity in Chinese startups? Is YC getting an exemption from the government, or are they holding it in a Chinese incorporated company?
India drives the most number of applications to YC after the USA. I wonder why China was chosen over India.
I am amazed by the negativity in the comments. China is a very specific environment with its own rules - just like the US or Europe. There you need to maintain good relations with the party, in the western world it is government officials (preferably those who are not voted into office and thus stick around). Entering such a new, different playing field should tickle every entrepreneur's nerves. Edit: How we fail, es…
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> Agreed, investing in China is the "invading Russia" of the tech world. I'd go even one step further, it is more like partnering with Germany, except in this version of the story Germany might be successful in its quest to take over the world, because make no mistake, China is coming for your market, it's only a matter of time. It is encouraging that more and more people are finally starting to put the pieces of thi…
The vast fear and ignorance in this thread is amusing but the comparison of China to Nazi Germany is perhaps a new low, even for Hacker News? It's interesting though how people develop such warped perceptions of the world. It's exactly how the greatest disaster of the 21st century, the absolutely unprovoked and absolutely senseless American invasion of Iraq which killed a million people and directly led to the rise o…
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> The number of expats in all of China is only about what Tokyo has Do you have a source on that? SZ didn't seem to have any foreigners when I was there. The expat community of BJ is pretty crazy for having spent a year there.
I spent almost 10 years in Beijing (2007-2016), and it seemed like everyone knew everyone. I was off a bit, there are 500,000 foreigners in Tokyo, compared to around 600,000 foreigners in China: http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2015/01/08/nali-lai-de-ov... https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/increase-... Japan has twice as many foreigners as China does, with many of them concentrated in the Tokyo reg…
Weird question but did you know TUN bar? Last time I was in BJ it was closed and I was really sad about it :(