Archive for the ‘Hangzhou’ Category

Life is Gooood in Hangzhou

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I remember about three years ago in a Suzhou bar three American guys swaggered in off the the street. Clearly, they were out-of-towners. They warmed up the locals to their brand of braggadocio by buying and then sharing a bottle of mid-shelf Scotch. Drinks all round. It wasn’t long before ...

Ascendas-ing in China

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

I recently had a charming visit from representatives of Ascendas, a commercial realestate developer. Ms. Ge and Mr. Fan are based out of Shanghai, and traveled into Suzhou to chat about developments of the company throughout Asia. I was already acquainted with Ms. Ge from the AMCHAM Shanghai Conference at ...

Did I Really Say That?: Quoted In A China Economic Review Article

Monday, June 4th, 2007

The June 2007 issue of the China Economic Review has a feature article on the Investment Trends of Suzhou, especially around the R&D, IT and BPO spaces. The name of the article is The Starbucks Factor. I was quoted extensively in the article (happily, because nothing seemed to be taken ...