Foreign entrepreneurs in the China Internet

For people interested in founding their own ventures in the China, this week's article in Global Times might be an inspiration to them. Many foreigners worked in the country’s first Internet ventures. And many have arrived since. We look at several stories of westerners who founded their own companies in China – people who had only a smattering of Mandarin at the start and ended up running companies where everyone else is Chinese.

Dutchman Marc van der Chijs found China's leading video sharing site, Tudou, with his Chinese partner Gary Wang, a colleague of his wife, before setting up the Asian division of a Dutch online game company, Spil Game Asia. American T.R. Harrington found his own search engine marketing firm, Darwin marketing, after struggling for a few years. Read complete article in Global Times.