Entrepreneurship in China I was fortunate to be invited by the British Chamber of Commerce in Beijing to share learnings from being an entrepreneur. I was also able to learn a great deal from the experience sharing of the co-founders of GungHo Pizza in Beijing, Jade Gray and John O’Loghlen, and from entrepreneur David Ben Kay [...]
Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle speaks with Jim James, a Morgan Motor Company roadster owner who’s asked the British automaker for permission to market the handbuilt luxury cars in China.
October 8, 2007 This week we have entered the clogged arteries of Beijing’s roads, hiring a car, and took ourselves away to the Fragrant Hills, in search of sunshine and fresh air, phenomena that the Government is telling us will be in growing abundance as we get to within 300 days of the Opening Ceremony. [...]
I have been having a hard time thinking of what to write as life in Beijing has become rather normal. What’s normal? Well of late, business thinkers have encouraged me to copy western business models, I watched Ziggy Marley exhort a crowd to peaceful disobedience, and the state utilities company turned off the heat on [...]
It is now every two weeks that I write the diary and it seems as though while the pace of on coming dangers to my immediate concern has slowed, everything in Beijing is speeding up to create a communal feeling and Olympic spirit. I went to an event at the British Embassy to discuss ‘Olympic [...]
Somehow two weeks have passed in what feels like one and I wonder where life is going, the answer no doubt lying in the increasing amount of email, travel and concentration on the company; finding myself on Xmas eve in Beijing realising that this western tradition is becoming a part of Chinese popular culture. Last [...]
Sometimes it is hard to see the way forward in China, but it is comforting to know that the warm Chinese folkways have elements of continuity in all the rapid changes that are taking place. I have been trying to figure out how to get money from the Company bank account at the China Construction [...]
I missed writing last week’s diary, I was simply too tired by the events of the week and of the day, all of which ended up with me acquiring a set of keys, symbols of my increasing sense of permanence in Beijing. I took possession of keys for my new apartment, which strangely came with [...]
