http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php All comments for Entrepreneurial college student 'sells time' online en-us 2009 shanghailaine Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss elaine@shanghaiist.com elaine@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php#comment-1609983 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php#comment-1609983 Comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:38:31 +0700 <p>Prix, homeless dudes have been standing in line at the train station ever since lines started never existing in China. And Ross Perot used this concept in the 60s to start EDS. The interesting/cute thing about the article is that Zhang is adapting the idea as a Chinese college student.</p> http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php#comment-1609970 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php#comment-1609970 Comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:42:04 +0700 <p>I remember seeing professional line place holders reported on in both the SCMP and the Toutiao Ribao (and probably the Standard too) about six months ago. This is supposedly quite popular in Hong Kong. </p> http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php#comment-1609943 http://shanghaiist.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneurial_college_student_sel.php#comment-1609943 Comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:16:10 +0700 <p>This is not news, at all Shanghaiist may have completely missed last years Xinhua story of this Guangzhou entrepreneur who started the "queueing up business" business for money, became extremely successful, employs now a dozen or so people and makes more than RMB 10 K per month. This is just another attempt to copy a successful concept.</p>