Private Equity and Venture Capital Panel: New Cycle, New Paradigm, New Landscape
Anla Cheng of Sino-Century
increase in PE fund managers – going for pre IPO deals increase in general partners “There’s too much money chasing for too few good companies.” this may be the reason for an “increase in art sales” and [...]
Opening Keynote – Frank Newman
Spoke on how he turned Shenzhen Development bank into a highly profitable organization. He notes it is one of the few banks that is not state owned.
Main changes he made
-sent out bonus plans to have the branches vet them.
-printed a formal code of [...]
Columbia Business School is hosting a conference on business in China.
I am most interested in the talks on venture capital, entrepreneurship, and cleantech.
My Goals:
Understand more about entrepreneurship (and VC) in the context of China.
Understand more about VC (and how that can be blended with IB).
Identify opportunities for (devel and [...]
In 2010, China reached first place as the largest art market “with 33% of global fine-art sales stemming from auctions based there.”* (Crains)
“Four Chinese artists made it into the top 10 ranked by auction revenue for 2010, up from just one in 2009.” (Crains)
If US fairs featured more galleries that represented Chinese artists, [...]
Rising Tigers Sleeping Giants
Asian nations set to dominate the clean energy race by out-investing the United States.
Specifically on Core Clean Energy Technologies
Sunshine Generation
Bruce Nussbaum brought Ziba’s Karen Reuther and founder Sohrab Vossoughi to Parsons on Monday the 7th. They open the presentation with “The revolution is underway.” The presentation was based around the “Sunshine Generation” in China, young urbanites that grew up not knowing Tian’anmen’s square and have only seen economy growth.
Karen Reuther [...]
