Rebecca Fannin Is our guest for this episode. She is a Journalist, author and media entrepreneur She is the founder of Silicon Dragon which organizes events and research. Rebecca writes a weekly column about innovation and venture investment trends at Forbes.com

She wrote two books about China; Silicon Dragon and Startup Asia.

Episode Content:

• Introducing Rebecca

• How did Silicon Dragon start? How the idea came up?

• Let’s talk about the startup ecosystem. Thoughts on comparing each ecosystem to Silicon Valley?

• Are US and Europe somehow behind of everything happening compared to the bustling entrepreneurship in Asia? Are they missing the train or have missed it?

• Rebecca talking about her impressive network of events all around the world connecting different ecosystems to Asia.

• Rebecca interviews a lot of interesting people. Who was the person that was most difficult to bring to an event? And which one was the most interesting one to interview?

• Rebecca recommends two books she read recently.

• What are two tools she use every day to make her work better?

• How can people reach out to Rebecca?

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Episode Mentions:

Intro

• What is Passover?

• Cross Border Summit 2017 – Mike’s conference

• WeChat group – add Shlomo (ID: shlomof) or Mike (ID:michelini)

Interview

• See more about Rebecca’s career here

• Innovation in Emerging Markets – Book where Rebecca Fannin wrote the Asia section

• Rebecca’s Weekly Forbes column

• Baidu

• Alibaba

• Ebay

Rebecca’s Book Recommendation:

• What Every Angel Investor Wants You To Know by Brian Cohen

• The Startup Game by William Draper III

• Wechat – ID: rebeccafannin

• Rebecca’s Facebook page

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