HONG KONG • After Mr Steven Yang left his coveted job at Google, he asked his mother whether he should take venture capital money to fund his business idea.
If his online consumer-electronics enterprise was a risky bet, she told him, go with the venture capitalists. But if building the business into something great was his destiny, he should use her money from a pharmaceutical career in China.
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