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Yesterday I met again Calvin Chin in a coffee bar in Palo Alto and we had an interesting discussion about entrepreneurial chances in China and elsewhere. Calvin and I got in contact when we both hold a discussion about “getting started as entrepreneur” at Barcamp Shanghai during september of last year. Calvin worked for several years in the U.S.-VC-sector before he moved to Shanghai, where he founded Qifang after he worked for a while as broker between Start-ups and VCs. Qifang is a (pre-launched) p2p-lending platform that is going to connect chinese students with wealthier individuals. I like the concept which seems to be both an attractive entrepreneurial chance as well as it could help millions of people to better their chances to get a good education. I look forward to meet Calvin again when I stay in Shanghai later this year.

Hi together, I´m enjoying blogging since I joined Lukasz Gadowskis famous german Entrepreneurship-Blog “Gruenderszene.de” in May 2007.

Now the time has come for me to start also a personal blog while I will continue to write also for Grunderszene.de.

What do I expect from this blog and what can you expect from my blog if you are going to read?

First of all I hope this blog will allow me to share some more personal minds which would be in the wrong place on a general entrepreneurship blog like Gruenderszene.

Second I`m going to write this blog from an international viewpoint, with a focus on regions that will play the largest role for my further plans as entrepreneur:

- Silicon Valley (and the U.S), the most entrepreneurial region of the world and also my current residence.

- Germany (and the rest of Europe), where I spend most time of the first 24 years in my live, started my companies and enjoy my family and friends background.

- China (and other emerging countries in Asia) that I look forward to explore in the second half of 2008.

While I will not have the time to publish a lots of “News” or company details I want to provide you from time to time with some deeper analyzes mainly related to entrepreneurship and social life in a world, which people and countries are becoming more and more connected.

Furthermore i want to give you some recommendations for interesting articles and blogs that I found.

Beyond business I will also add some personal notes on stuff that I´m interested in.

I hope you enjoy my blog as well as I do and give me new insights on the covered topics by sharing your thoughts via comments or my profiles.