Luis Sarre, the CEO and Co-Founder of Free Entrepreneurs, with Matthieu David about creating an entrepreneur network in China. In this China business podcast, we learn about the Chinese innovation ecosystem and how Sarre can balance so many exciting projects at once. This podcast wouldn't be possible without the contribution from WeWork Labs.
Highlights for this China business podcast include:
1:14 Statistics of Free Entrepreneurs
2:20 Experiences in China and the introduction of Free Entrepreneurs
3:46 Example of connecting start-up hubs in the West and in China
4:53 Charting Start-up hubs
6:23 Knowing sales volume
8:06 Financing efforts to find clients
10:11 Example of a company that Free Entrepreneurs assisted
15:04 Defining “network”
17:09 Understanding the work of Free Entrepreneurs
19:21 Example of Innovation workshops
20:54 Partners of Free Entrepreneurs
22:44 Learnings from Luis’ past experiences
24:50 Balancing commitments to two missions: Free Entrepreneurs and InnOvation
29:41 Types of products that could be designed
31:49 Understanding how to communicate with the factory
35:54 How to create the necessary documents for communicating with related parties when creating a product
38:14 Projected cost to work on a project
39:29 Inspiration from books
41:00 What Luis’ reads to stay up to date on China
43:20 Recommended book on China
44: 38 Productivity tools used
45:53 An idea that Luis would like to work on
46:50 What makes China interesting to Luis
49:52 Unexpected success in China
More about Free Entrepreneurs: https://www.freeentrepreneurs.net/
More about InnOvation: https://www.innovatio.cn/
More about WeWork Labs: https://www.wework.com/labs
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