It takes about two years to transition from a corporate person to an entrepreneur. Too much money was put on bureaucratic things which are unnecessary for an early-stage project.  I need culture shock. I witnessed how 30 million got burned for nothing.  No payment option was a stopper.  If you go to a new city and you know nobody you just say you are an entrepreneur.  Step out of a foreigner's zone to tackle the China market.  You need to "hunt and date" for a local partner.Yuchen Zhang has a solid background in engineering and software from three universities and vast entrepreneurial experience both in China and abroad. YC is running aihehuo.com which is a platform for wanna-be-entrepreneurs to meet and "date". To help even more future entrepreneurs, YC leads the Startup Leadership Program SLP Shanghai chapter.  A series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. This podcast is brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China. Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on YouTube and WeChat Channel.  

💡 Put a phone away.💡 China is a fairly friendly place for foreigners as long as you are not doing things that the government does not want you to do.💡 China is a super interesting market because over the past 30 years they built up this incredible asset base - the factory of the world.💡 Technology adoption is a big issue.Erik Walenza-Slabe is a long-term resident of Shanghai where he runs IoT One focusing on the Industrial Internet of Things and helping companies in developing their digital transformation. In addition to working with big corporations, Erik has been helping startups by running the Startup Grind Shanghai chapter since 2012. 🚗 A series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship in China. Our guests are industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators. This podcast is brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.🎙 Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.Subscribe to the podcast via other services to be notified when a new episode is released. We are on WeChat Channel, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more details visit our website: www.inchinabtwmeetings.com

💡 China is undergoing huge growth. Exponential opportunities are very attractive to young professionals. 💡 In the US, you work at a job in a high-pressure environment, you deliver, and a lot of your passion you build outside of your job. In China, it's a creation of things like WeChat, where it totally blurs personal and professional lines. 💡 We train and invest in people, not the ideas. 💡 Innovation never yields quick results.💡 The Chinese corporations' challenge is to change some of the people's mindsets to be able to take more risks. Got educated in China, the USA, and the UK, Jade Hsiao started her career in New York City. But after a couple of years, Jade moved to China, where her passion for food led her to join Danone. Currently, as acceleration manager at XNode, Jade invests her time and efforts to drive innovation for big corporations. 🚗  This series of interviews brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.

In China, you can get anything done in no time.If you cannot resource a team of champions within a corporation, then the relationships with startups are superficial.The number one KPI is the incremental revenue we drive for Intel.Graduated from Stanford, worked alongside incredibly talented people on designing multiple generations of Apple products, Kapil Kane, a co-founder of Intel® GrowthX corporate accelerator, is now spearheading innovation for Intel in China.Learn more about Intel GrowthX corporate accelerator, how they help startups, what programs they run, and how they make the change happen.In China Between Meetings is a series of interviews about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship brought to you by weHustle.Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn.Watch the video on YouTube. 

The first episode of In China Between Meetings, a series of video interviews where we talk about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Join us for a ride with Sunny Ting, Digital Innovation Scout at BI x Digital Labs and Co-Director at Startup Grind Shanghai. Born in Taiwan, grew up in Hong Kong, Sunny is on the frontline of the Shanghai innovation ecosystem bridging the startup and corporate world.People in China are inherently savvy business owners.People are quite particular about business outcomes. If you couple that with the China speed, you need to be strong, ambitious, and capable to stay relevant in such an environment.In startup-corporate collaboration, top management engagement is crucial. We passed the era of doing things for free. This series of interviews brought to you by weHustle, a Shanghai-based platform for innovation and growth helping local and international teams succeed in China.Follow the host Marian Danko on LinkedIn. Watch the video on YouTube.