I love startups and entrepreneurship. My obsession started when I was reselling Nerds candy in Taipei, purchased from the U.S. commissary store. To recognize and exploit a pricing arbitrage as a nine-year-old felt like winning the lottery every time a new batch arrived. In 1998, a year before graduating from William & Mary, I was offered a chance to work at my father's friend's eyeglass parts factory in Shenzhen, China. The proposal was to be its manager and partner to expand into the country. China was finally opening up, and I had seen the rapid change firsthand as an exchange student in Beijing in 1997. But I was nervous. I knew nothing about the business. Instead of taking the adventure of a lifetime, I took the sure thing: an international equities job at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Ever since, I've carried a mix of curiosity and mild regret. How would my life have turned out had I jumped on that entrepreneurial path in 1999?…