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...conversation was less a sales pitch by Chao than a freewheeling exchange about corporate-finance trends and upcoming investment opportunities. The portfolio manager left the meeting enlightened about the Chinese business landscape, and Chao got a new client as well as a referral to a company in the VC's portfolio that might also need his counsel. Most people would call that rainmaking. Chao calls it "knowledge arbitrage." Chao's practice has added about 50 new Silicon Valley clients and handled some 150 transactions for them over the past three years as China becomes more appealing. "They're interested...
...task he does well. In 1997, while working for a multinational mining-finance group, he was among the first investors in Sina.com which became one of the world's largest Internet portals. His prescience won the attention of Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999--with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers--NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like...
Things can change. It happened to Friendster. Founder Jonathan Abrams says there was a time when he was just as convinced he would stay independent. He was even “upset,” he says, when VC firms started knocking on his door—his apartment door, that is. Abrams hadn’t yet moved into an office...
...like Visible Path, used by companies to share employee contacts behind the corporate firewall. Spoke Software, which offers both kinds of networks, already has more than $20 million in funding. Ryze, a public network, and Interface Software, a closed system used mostly by law firms, are out of the VC loop but in the money--both are profitable...
...Your Friend's Friend Is your business opportunity. Social networking software is going corporate--and attracting VC dollars...