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November 7, 2011 08:57 am GMT

Disrupt Beijing Take-Aways: How China Moves Beyond the Clones

6294249727_d75ec310afThe biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses. And you can understand why: Starting a company is scary. It's little wonder that even the best entrepreneurs go through a period of doubt and excuses not to take the plunge.So when I hear complaints from entrepreneurs in other areas of the US or in other countries about how they can't start companies because there is no angel money, no mentors, no employees that will work for a startup, I always wonder how much of these gripes are truly insurmountable odds to new company formation and how much are the grousing of someone looking for someone else to blame. In China, the complaint du jour is that the entrepreneurs are trying to push beyond just founding companies that are clones of Western Web brands, and it's the VCs that won't take the risk on truly new ideas. Over two days of backstage deliberation at Disrupt Beijing, I got to see first-hand how the mind of the Chinese VC works. And I have to say, Chinese entrepreneurs have a valid point.

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