Although China's Internet development, but entrepreneurs still prefer Silicon Valley-Silicon Valley, venture-IT information
Technology news site The Information recently said, although China has been able to foster rich, but still has some of the most outstanding Chinese students in the United States business, because they can attract better talents there, get a sound legal protection, to a genuine technological innovation. Following is the content of the original.
China's science and technology industry may be booming, but there is still talent shortages.
Massachusetts Institute of technology the choice of top students Sang Wen telling: he founded the company with partner, and thawing from top Silicon Valley investors to more than 3 million dollars. Their company, Smarking, may use the data to help parking full use of all spaces, as well as to minimize waiting time of spare spaces.
Because China is the world's largest car market, so it was obviously had the same problem. But the company won't be there to launch services in the short term.
Due to United States educational background, and still have a variety of relationships in China, so after returning to China, he can more easily obtain financing. Will become a player in the Blues, but Sang Wen decided to remain in the United States. The reason is simple: while a new round of massive scientific and technological innovation in China, and attracting a lot of venture capital a stampede, but China is still facing a shortage of talent--at least, in the eyes of some of the most talented students, indeed the case.
"The talent level here than in China. "Sang Wen said he and MIT classmate Lin Maokai (Lin Maokai, transliteration) say they are from y Combinator, Khosla Ventures and Slow Ventures has received $ 3.2 million in financing from, among others. He said in China, employing intermediate software engineer at lower cost, but the best talent in Silicon Valley. "Especially the top-notch technical talent. ”
Recruitment trapped
Sang Wen and Hao Zhong (Zhong Hao, transliteration), he currently serves as founder and CEO of ScaleFlux, the company is developing high performance data center infrastructure, claims to be able to respond to the increasing demand for data and cloud computing.
"I founded the company in Silicon Valley, because our products have a very high technical threshold, while China started late in the data storage industry. "Hao Zhong said that he once held a senior software engineer at Fusion-io, in 2014, this company acquired by SanDisk," finding it hard to recruit people with this technology in China. ”
Even the largest, funds the most powerful Internet company came across the ocean in search of the highest level programmers. In fact, the search giant Baidu Baidu was established in sangniweier Research Institute, and in Silicon Valley to set up the artificial intelligence laboratory.
"There is no doubt that Silicon Valley has more than China's top talent. "Silicon Valley recruiter tangmu·Zhang (Tom Zhang) said his company, Tencent United States branches and Tesla has accumulated over 10 years of experience in recruiting," Tencent and Baidu and other Chinese companies hiring recruiters frequently every year come to Silicon Valley. ”
However, it is difficult to measure the specific extent of the problem. Starting from long ago, Chinese students studying abroad have many choices remain overseas, after the end of the cultural revolution in the late 1970 's, this is even more evident. The lucky few to enter foreign universities, access to better economic prospects than China.
But with China's economy booming, that is changing. According to the statistics of the hurun rich list, Chinese billionaires than United States. According to statistics from China's Ministry of education in 2015, more than 500,000 Chinese students studying abroad, but about 70% to 80% of people returned after they completed their studies.
Talent is not the only reason that Chinese entrepreneurs are reluctant to return home. Privacy and lack of intellectual property protection has always been foreign to China the most worrying problem, but now, it has also become the innovators in China faced new problems.
This statement from Cambridge University students, Gu Xiao Chi, Dexta Robotics CEO. He founded the company control of virtual reality glove specially developed exoskeleton, which is a kind of action tracking device with force feedback. When a user action in the real world, to touch and feel to objects in the digital world. Gu Xiao-Chi, said he is currently meeting with a number of potential partners, including the Oculus of the Silicon Valley.
Gu Xiao Chi hope and United States technology companies, but not to marriage with the technology giant in China. "My team only two years of research and development in the field of virtual reality into the real technical progress. "He said," but China's giants of technology lack of long-term vision, and lack of respect for intellectual property rights. In the end, technology innovation like we will not get the attention it deserves. ”
"China and the United States there is still gap between, Chinese entrepreneurs are chasing product and technology innovation fields. "Jamie jixun foo source capital partners said the company has been in China and the United States has invested in some very successful startups. "Chinese entrepreneurs like random copying, but United States entrepreneur is sensitive to this. ”
The lack of innovation
Gu Xiao-Chi's views extreme. "I didn't see too many technical innovations in China. "He said," this is not because the Chinese people are not creative--the real reason is that many Chinese entrepreneurs prefer to copy an existing technology, resulting in a short period of time to get rewarded, rather than a genuine innovation. Rooted in protection of intellectual property rights and access in China is very good. ”
Despite the drop of valuation reached tens of billions of dollars, while Tencent has become Asia's most overvalued companies, but short-term thinking will still affect long-term development.
"Silicon Valley will remain the top technology centre in the short term. "Tuomasi·Yao (Thomas Yao) said that the China-born angel investor focused on cross-border entrepreneurship associated with virtual reality company," for example, mainland China is an eager market of virtual reality, but HTC Vive and configure the too much research and development on the continent. ”
HTC CEO Alvin Wang graylin, China virtual reality business, said the company's research and development personnel more than 80% are located in Taiwan.
Another graduate from United States top schools Stanford's Chinese student Wang Borui launched a provocative figure (Polarr), which is an image editing software designed specifically for professional photographers. "Recruitment of all software engineers in Silicon Valley is not difficult. "He said," they alone will be able to complete the work of three or four people. ”（
中国互联网发展虽快，但创业者仍更爱硅谷 - 硅谷,创业 - IT资讯
科技新闻网站The Information日前撰文称，虽然中国已经能够培养科技富豪，但还是有一些最优秀的中国学生选择在美国创业，因为他们感觉能在那里吸引更优秀的人才，获得更健全的法律保护，从而展开真正的技术创新。以下为原文内容。
中国的科技行业或许非常繁荣，但这里的人才却仍然短缺。
麻省理工学院高材生桑文的选择就很说明问题：他跟合伙人一起创办了一家公司，并从硅谷顶尖投资者那里融到了300多万美元。他们的公司名叫Smarking，可以利用大数据帮助停车场充分利用所有车位，同时还能最大程度地缩短空余车位的等待时间。
由于中国是全世界最大的汽车市场，所以那里显然也遇到了相同的问题。但该公司短期内不会在那里推出服务。
由于拥有美国的教育背景，而且在中国仍有各种各样的关系，所以回到中国后，他可以更容易获得融资。尽管会因此成为芸芸众生中的普通一员，但桑文还是决定留在美国。原因很简单：虽然中国的新一轮科技创新声势浩大，并且吸引了大量的风险投资争相涌入，但中国还是面临人才短缺——至少，在一些最顶尖的学生眼中，情况的确如此。
“这里的人才水平比中国好。”桑文说，他跟麻省理工学院的同学林毛凯（Lin Maokai，音译）说，他们从Y Combinator、Khosla Ventures和Slow Ventures等机构那里获得了320万美元融资。他表示，尽管在中国聘请中级软件工程师的成本更低，但最优秀的人才仍然在硅谷。“尤其是顶尖的技术人才。”
招聘遇困
桑文的感觉与钟浩（Zhong Hao，音译）相同，他目前担任ScaleFlux的创始人和CEO，这家公司正在开发高性能数据中心基础设施，号称能够应对不断增加的大数据和云计算需求。
“我在硅谷创办公司，因为我们的产品有很高的技术门槛，而中国的数据存储行业起步较晚。”钟浩说，他曾经在Fusion-io担任高级软件工程师，这家公司已于2014年被SanDisk收购，“在中国很难招到拥有这种技术的人。”
就连中国规模最大、资金最雄厚的互联网公司也来到大洋彼岸寻找技术水平最高的程序员。事实上，搜索巨头百度已经在桑尼韦尔建立了百度研究院，并在硅谷设立了人工智能实验室。
“毋庸置疑，硅谷拥有比中国更多的顶尖人才。”硅谷招聘官汤姆·张（Tom Zhang）说，他在谷歌、腾讯美国分公司和特斯拉积累了超过10年的招聘经验，“腾讯和百度等很多中国公司的招聘官每年都会频繁来到硅谷招人。”
不过，还是很难衡量这个问题的具体程度。从很早以前开始，在海外学习的中国学生就有很多选择留在海外，1970年代后期文化大革命结束后，这种情况更加明显。少数的幸运儿得以进入外国的大学，获得比中国更好的经济前景。
但随着中国经济的蓬勃发展，这种情况正在发生变化。根据《胡润富豪榜》的统计，中国的亿万富豪已经超过美国。根据中国教育部的统计，2015年有50多万中国学生出国留学，但约有70%至80%的人在完成学业后回国。
人才并非中国创业者不愿回国的唯一原因。隐私和知识产权保护力度不足一直以来都是外国企业对中国最为担忧的问题，而如今，这也已经也成为了中国创新人士面临的新问题。
这一说法来自剑桥大学学生、Dexta Robotics CEO谷逍驰。他创办的这家公司专门开发外骨骼虚拟现实控制手套，这是一种带有力反馈的动作追踪设备。当用户在现实世界中做动作时，便可通过它触摸和感受到数字世界中的物体。谷逍驰表示，他目前正在与一些潜在合作伙伴会面，其中就包括硅谷的Oculus。
谷逍驰希望与美国科技公司合作，但却不愿与中国科技巨头联姻。“我的团队研发了两年才在虚拟现实领域引入了一些真正的技术进步。”他说，“但中国巨头对技术缺乏长远眼光，而且不尊重知识产权。到最终，像我们这样的科技创新不会得到应有的重视。”
“中国和美国之间仍有差距，但中国创业者正在产品和技术创新领域快速追赶。”纪源资本合伙人符绩勋说，该公司已经在中国和美国投资了一些非常成功的创业公司。“中国创业者喜欢随意抄袭，但美国创业者对此较为敏感。”
创新不足
谷逍驰的看法比较极端。“我没有在中国看到太多技术创新。”他说，“这不是因为中国人没有创造力——真正的原因在于很多中国企业家更喜欢复制现有的技术，从而在短时间内获得回报，而不愿意展开真正的创新。根源在于知识产权并没有在中国获得很好的保护。”
尽管滴滴的估值达到数百亿美元，而腾讯也成为了亚洲估值最高的企业，但短期思维仍会影响长期发展。
“硅谷短期内仍将是顶尖的科技中心。”托马斯·姚（Thomas Yao）说，这位出生于中国的天使投资人专门关注与虚拟现实相关跨界创业公司，“例如，中国大陆是一个十分渴望虚拟现实的市场，但HTC Vive并没有在大陆配置太多研发人员。”
HTC虚拟现实业务中国区总裁汪丛青表示，该公司的研发人才超过80%都位于台湾。
另外一位毕业于美国顶尖高校斯坦福的中国学生王博睿推出了泼辣修图（Polarr），这是一款专为专业摄影师设计的图片编辑软件。“要在硅谷招募全能软件工程师并不难。”他说，“他们一个人就能完成三四个人的工作。”（