Feng Deng, managing director of Northern Light Venture Capital in Beijing, paints the new scenario for China.

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Feng Deng of Northern Light Venture Capital said that speed to market and cheap prices still matter most for startups to get ahead today in China.

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Hopping out of the taxi at the Starbucks there after an amazingly quicker ride than normal in the still relatively empty streets, I took up elevator up Tower A to go see Feng Deng, who heads NLVC.

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Of late, lesser-known yet winning entrepreneurs such as Zhu at WebEx and Feng Deng at NetScreen , which was acquired earlier this year by Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ), have advanced down the same path.

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