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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).