The Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) is holding a workshop at the end of the month for startups, angel investors and anyone else who wants to venture into the Chinese market, with a focus on the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) sector. The program is divided into two parts to discuss, amongst others: current mainland China market status & trends, the Chinese internet; early stage ecosystem in China, local angels & VCs, resources and fundraising. Read more
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What is the hottest now in China? Micro-blogging? Groupons? Find out more in this speakers session, LIVE from Shanghai! Brought to you by NUS Enterprise, Chinese Entrepreneurship Organisation Singapore and SHEN (NUS Overseas College students in Shanghai). Read more
The TWIA crew in our virtual studio, sets off this week on two major events: CommunicAsia 2010 & Nokia Connection. With a flurry of talking points on the future direction of Nokia and how the mobile landscape is shaping up in Philippines similar to the Indonesian one, the crew also looked at how InMobi, the Indian mobile ad network is moving into the US and the usual Chinese sightings: TenCent to acquire Comsenz? and FourSquare is now banned in China. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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How is the venture incubator space emerging in China after Lee Kaifu’s departure from Google China to create Innovation Works? What is the current trends in the Chinese market and how does it differ from Singapore. Following our special interview series in conjunction with Echelon 2010, we have Chris Evdemon from Innovation Works & a business angel in Singapore on our show to discuss this issues and his expectations on Echelon 2010. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Following the special interview series in conjunction with Echelon 2010, we have Benjamin Joffe, partner from CMUNE and co-founder of Plus Eight Star to speak to us about what is currently interesting for both mobile and social gaming in China. He also tells us about his current project, CMUNE where they develop games that can cross into different platforms at one go and the latest trends ongoing in China. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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The TWIA crew returns without our moderator, John Lim. In his place, our co-producer Mike Foong has taken the helm and drive the discussion on the important news that rocked Asia this week. With our guest, Chew Lin Kay (@BlinkBl_nk) from BlinkBl-nk.com and Hackerspace SG, we surveyed the happenings from Barcamp KL, BlinkBl_nk to the launch of Amazon AWS in Asia, and moved to the important news of the week: (i) Ushi.cn, a Chinese Linkedin clone after BL’s rant in the live show that there is no linkedin clone in China from the live show? (ii) Yahoo! Japan and DeNA to run social game site, Yahoo! Mobage, (iii) Japan to adopt Chinese standards for 4G, (iv) Microsoft plans to invest in Kaixin001 and finally (v) Baidu filling up the vacuum for Google China now. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Google turns off filter in China, [2] GoDaddy to stop registering domain names in China, [3] HTC EVO 4G, [4] Every citizen to have personal webpage: eCitizen. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more
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If there is a potential candidate which can pose as an alternative to the Silicon Valley in California, Zhong Guan Cun in Beijing is possibly the only candidate in the present. The best benchmarks are perhaps the amount of talent, the vast market size, the successful tech companies (Baidu, Lenovo and the Founder Group) that rose from China and the amount of venture capital that has turned up in Beijing from US, for e.g. Sequoia China. While traveling to Beijing, I took a nice walk around the technology cluster under a clear blue sky during the 60th National Day Celebrations in China. Read more
Filed under Dummy's Guide, Featured, Special CommentaryTags: Baidu, Beijing, China, Google China, lenovo, Microsoft China, Peking University, Silicon Dragon, Technology Cluster, Technology Park, The Founder Group, Tsinghua University, Zhong Guan Cun
Yesterday, Chris Evdemon (board member, BANSEA and partner, Eastern Bell Venture Capital) gave a interesting presentation about investing and doing business in China. Organised by the Business Angel Network – Southeast Asia (BANSEA), Chris has now uploaded into slideshare. There are some interesting notes about how to set up in China. For SG Entrepreneurs who might plan to move to China, this is a good set of presentation slides for reference particularly about who to seek for early stage capital investing, infrastructure and what needs to be done. Read more
Setting up an enterprise in China is a relatively challenging task. While traveling across from Shanghai to Beijing, I met up with my friend Boon, a Singaporean entrepreneur who set up shop in China. He runs the Eden Juice bar, located somewhere in Sanlitun North Road, Chaoyang District (an area that is reminiscent of Holland Village in Singapore). While following him across Beijing, here are some thoughts that I extracted out from him which may be of help to those who might be thinking about setting up in China: Read more
