How to Become a Shanghai Entrepreneur

March 12, 2009 No Comments

This article originally appeared in Shanghai Expat.

By Maria Korolov Trombly

I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to Shanghai when I was in town the last couple of months.

As the U.S. and European economies head south, I guess that people are looking at the growth numbers, noticing that China is still in the positive digits, and hopping a plane over here, hoping to get something going.

Starting your own company is hard. The vast majority fail quickly. In China, in particular, there are all sorts of regulatory restrictions about starting companies, and what foreign-owned companies can do, and how much money you can take out of the country if you do manage to make it.

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MARIA KOROLOV TROMBLY is president of Trombly International, an editorial services company that provides news and features about business in emerging markets to U.S. publications. Latest projects include Hypergrid Business, covering the enterprises uses of virtual worlds, and Hyperica, a directory of destinations on the 3D Web.

She is also the chief operating officer of the China Speakers Bureau, which places more than 300 China experts into speaking engagements around the world.

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