China Private Equity

The Asian Venture Capital Journal’s latest issue includes a short article on China First Capital’s partnership with Horwath.

You can read it here: 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15346001/Asian-Venture-Capital-Journal-Article-about-China-First-Capital-Horwath-Capital-China-Partnership

The reporter, Maya Ando,  contacted me originally by email, and ended up doing the “interview” by email as well. While the spontaneity and give-and-take of an in-person interview is lost, it’s a good journalist technique. It reduces the ever-present likelihood of errors and misquoting. Accuracy, not friendly banter,  should be the journalist’s goal, after all.  

I wish email interviews had been possible back in the Stone Age when I was a journalist for Forbes. Virtually no one had email. I remember spending days, even as a senior editor, trying to track down sources by phone or fax to check their facts. 

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To my delight — and also somewhat to my embarrassment, given what a flattering article it is — the Shenzhen Daily this week published an article on me and my company, China First Capital.

The Shenzhen Daily is the local English-language paper in Shenzhen. The reporter, Cao Zhen, is originally from Hubei Province and studied in the UK. She has an expert grasp on the language, and asked some thoughtful questions.

As a once-upon-a-long-time-ago journalist, I particularly appreciated her preparation, fact-checking and patience with my rambling answers. 

Here’s the link:

http://paper.sznews.com/szdaily/20090414/ca2911919.htm

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