Silicon Valley loves to portray China as a nation of copycats, but you don't hear as much about the times when the Valley does some fast following of its own —

Silicon Valley loves to portray China as a nation of copycats, but you don't hear as much about the times when the Valley does some fast following of its own — or in this case, slow following I smell a good opportunity here. Many chinese startups succeeded simply copying the concept and business models of successful Silicon Valley startups. In several years once the Chinese tech industry matures some more, some enterprising fellow on the west coast will get wealthy porting an innovative Chinese idea to the US.