Date: Tuesday April 24th , 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Who: Stephen Forte Topic: Exit Strategies for Startups Fee: 20RMB Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Click for Map About: Stephen Forte Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company, Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools. Involved in several startups, he was the co-founder of Triton Works, which was acquired by UBM (London: UBM.L) in 2010 and was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc., which was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: […]
Date: Tuesday April 3rd , 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Who: Nick Plante, Co-founder of Wefunder and Zerosum Labs Topic: How to find a technical cofounder? Fee: Free Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Click for Map About: Co-founder of Wefunder and Zerosum Labs. Formerly CTO of Mogoterra. Organizer of Rails Rumble (largest global weekend hack competition), Startup Workaway, created RDoc.info. Ruby / JavaScript / OSS / product hacker and wannabe designer. Experienced in the developer tooling and crowdfunding markets. Mentor at HAXLR8R in Shenzhen. Chai Huo hackerspace #0728, Bld […]
Date: Tuesday March 27th, 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Topic: Huck Liang, CEO and founder of foblc.com How to register Hong Kong or Shenzhen companies Fee: Free Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Click for Map Chai Huo hackerspace #0728, Bld #5, Dong Hua Yuan (Next to Holiday Inn) Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China MTR – Luobao Line (line 1) to the Tao Yuan stop (just past Shenzhen University) and about a 10 minute walk Thanks guys, I have a feeling a lot of people will get lost, […]
Date: Tuesday March 20th, 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Topic:This Tuesday come join us for an open topic and networking session! Same time , same place- bring a beer , see you there. Fee: Free Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Click for Map Chai Huo hackerspace #0728, Bld #5, Dong Hua Yuan (Next to Holiday Inn) Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China MTR – Luobao Line (line 1) to the Tao Yuan stop (just past Shenzhen University) and about a 10 minute walk Thanks guys, I have a […]
Date: Tuesday March 13th, 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Topic: Dealing with creative product design inside China Fee: Free Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Click for Map David aka Digitalboy is the lead product designer for the famous Chinese brand GeekCook – a brand that represents individuality and creativity in China. David has experience in managing a team o dynamic and creative Chinese employees in Dongguan, China and we are excited to hear him share his experiences! Chai Huo hackerspace #0728, Bld #5, Dong Hua Yuan (Next to Holiday Inn) Nanhai […]
Date: Tuesday March 6th, 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Topic: We have Nick and Tim, two young American entreprenuers who moved to China after graduation from University, to discuss the importance of networking abroad. Currently, they are involved in several venture in a variety of fields, such as importing, e-commerce and sourcing. Fee: Free Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Click for Map Chai Huo hackerspace #0728, Bld #5, Dong Hua Yuan (Next to Holiday Inn) Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China MTR – Luobao Line (line 1) to the Tao Yuan stop […]
Worked over the past couple days to queue up speakers and topics to keep the Startup Tuesdays rocking after an awesome Boyd Jones talk last tuesday, Rachel + Henry from comfortworks home decoraustralian ecommerce startups, they have some experience in the Australian startup weekends and event management – taking a huge load off my shoulders updating the Shenzhen Marketing website, and designing a cool logo for it (in this blog post). Finally getting some good teams setup for the Startup Weekend and the Startup Tuesdays….and work is getting done much faster and more “on its own two feet” […]
Yup, just back from Manila earlier this week, digging out of emails, getting some SEO training started, planning 2 events in March, and ended today with an AWESOME Shenzhen startup Tuesday! I’ve been trying to get Boyd Jones to speak at a meetup for months now, and finally our request was fulfilled! Also, a really awesome boost is Rachel & Henry from comfort works have stepped up and gotten involved helping organize events, and also redesigned shenzhen marketing website to better organize and promote these meetups! Since Chinese New Years ended, we have re-organized the meetups to be […]
After so many wonderful tuesdays we had had together, and so many times we had invited some wonderful guests to be our speaker, i got an idea: how about you guys anyone who wants to present your ideas or got great experiences to share to tell us that you wanna be our speaker?! Come on and show us! Therefore, we decided to stop some Startup Tesday meeting from this week in order to hear more voices saying that you wanna come and be our honorable speaker. Also, we wanna know how you really feel about our activities before and please […]
I’m truly overextended with all these meetups….but its really picking up steam, went to startup saturdays in Hong Kong, been networking with others from Shenzhen who are attending the Hong Kong events, asking how to build up the Shenzhen startup and entrepreneur community here. From that, being connected with John Biggs from Tech crunch to have a quick, informal Shenzhen techcrunch meetup. During my trip in USA confirmed and met up with Ahmed from startup weekend to confirm the first official Startup weekend in shenzhen. Its already coming up next weekend! – I know I’m overextending myself, but I am […]