Med 338 miljoner nätinvånare, en helt egen uppsättning webfavoriter och ett av de mest entreprenöriella kulturerna i världen är det konstigt att det inte sägs och skrivs mer om kinesiska web-startupper.

Före detta Googlechefen Kai-Fu Lee har filat vidare på planerna för sin entreprenörsinkubator, Innovation Works. Här är en bra artiekel från GigaOM om upplägget och möjligheterna:

Kai-Fu Lee Talks Up His Post-Google Plans

"At Innovation Works, Lee aims to provide a home for budding Chinese entrepreneurs, one that will foster ideas and quickly bring them to market. (With over 338 million users, China’s Internet market is by far the largest in the world.) So far, Innovation Works has received some 7,000 resumes from eager Chinese entrepreneurs.[...]

Though e-commerce accounted for just 7 percent of the Chinese Internet market five years ago, its share has since grown to 25 percent. Chinese web users were initially wary of purchasing things online due to fears of online scams, but e-retailers like 360buy.com and Ctrip.com have since come up with creative payment methods, Lee noted, such as payment upon delivery, to gain trust from consumers.

[...] Rampant piracy has rendered software virtually non-existent in the country, he explained, so gaming companies began charging people to play online, storing their game data in the cloud and sending China’s online gaming industry ballooning to $20 billion from $10 million in 1998."