Carl Hooks

Interview China Innovation Entrepreneurship I recently had the fortune to sit down with Mr. Dickie Liang-Hong Ke, a highly accomplished business strategist, investor, and educator, to probe his mind on innovation and entrepreneurship in China. Mr. Liang-Hong Ke studied to become a software engineer, but his real passions lied in business. He built his first startups while still in college and later switched into sales, marketing, and telecommunications. Since then, he has led projects for industry leaders such as Ericsson, Microsoft, and Nokia, before becoming a Sloan Fellow at London Business School. During the interview, we discussed misconceptions about Chinese innovation, hot tech topics like blockchain, and market strategy for Chinese and non-Chinese companies. The following is the transcript of our fire-side chat and Mr. Liang-Hong Ke’s fascinating insights. CH: You dabble in a lot of areas. From your LinkedIn page, it appears you’ve been a manager, entrepreneur, writer, and…

Chinese Startups Entrepreneur Service Holding Company: What is DIVVII? DIVVII, Inc. (pronounced div-ee, from the phrase “divvy up”) is an entrepreneurial services holding company that makes it easy for anyone, anywhere to access the resources required to achieve entrepreneurial success, using data science. The company currently has three subsidiaries: DIVVII Media (based in Los Angeles, USA) DIVVII Capital (launching soon in the first quarter of 2018) DIVVII China (based in Shanghai) This article focuses on DIVVII China and its unique programs for students and aspiring entrepreneurs. What is DIVVII’s inspiration? Nicholas (Nick) Clark and Tidus Coleman became friends when Nick was a student at Georgetown and Tidus was working on a veteran’s initiative for Michelle Obama’s office. They combined their backgrounds in entrepreneurship and international education to co-found DIVVII, Inc. Nick moved to Shanghai almost three years ago and currently manages DIVVII China. What is DIVVII’s purpose? DIVVII China seeks…