SZTeam

Shenzhen Startup community

SZTeam

michelini, Author at SZTeam

  • Startup Tuesday Feb 28 – Boyd Jones on Attracting investors!

    We will start to host the Startup Tuesday every 2 weeks, for a total of 2 times per month, to ensure that we have always a great speaker and a great topic! TUESDAY, Feb 28, we will start having Startup Tuesdays in Chai Huo! SZteam is cooperating with Chai Huo hackerspace, Date: Tuesday Feb 28th, 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Topic: We have Boyd Jones, a Venture Capitalist from copowerpe.com located here in Shenzhen, and also a key force behind the newly launched Startup Labs in Taipai, Taiwan. He will discuss attracting investors for your startup! Location: At ChaiHuo.org […]

  • Startup Tuesday, at ChaiHuo hackerspace. Lifecraft startup

    Hope everyone had a good Chinese New Year, and is excited for the “Year of the Dragon” SZteam is cooperating with Chai Huo hackerspace, and the next Startup Tuesday will be at the Chai Huo hackerspace THIS TUESDAY, Feb 7, we will start having Startup Tuesdays in Chai Huo! Date: Tuesday Feb 7th, 2012 Time: 7pm – about 9pm Topic: We have a visitor from Silicon Valley, USA speaking, in english, about his startup platform, www.lifecraft.com his name is Haegwan Kim Location: At ChaiHuo.org hackerspace (its behind the holiday inn in nanshan district) Chai Huo hackerspace #0728, Bld #5, Dong […]

  • Working on Launching 2nd Location – In Shekou District!

    Shekou district WANTS ITS OWN COWORKING SPACE! Last week at Christmas Eve dinner my friends Marshall, James, Chris, Tully, Erik and others were talking about coworking space, shared office. People really do need this service. Many are tired of working in coffee shops, bars, home offices. I remembered many times I had talked to Mark Wong, owner from Sidewalk Cafe (now called Sorrelle Cafe) in Rose Garden 2 commercial district about a coworking space. He has a nice open 2nd floor of the coffee shop which he has utilized for a few other things. He rented it out to a […]

  • Great Startup Weekend, Lets take a break from this Tuesday meeting

    We had a really exciting startupweekend this past weekend – we will post the story soon – but tomorrow’s Tuesday meeting is postponed til next week. All that great hard work from the teams has exhausted us, so rest up and stay tuned for next Tuesday! Mike

  • Techcrunch visiting Shenzhen This Friday, Nov 4, 7pm Le Bistro

    Seriously on a roll lately with networking and community building! Wish I could make it to Techcrunch’s Disrupt Beijing! conference this week, but luckily one of their editors, John Biggs, will be in Shenzhen visiting for a few days and planned a quick, informal meetup for this coming Friday, November 4th: John Biggs, the gadget guy from Tech crunch is here. He is interested to meet startups and entrepreneurs here in Shenzhen! So please come out and represent! Entry is free, but please try to make a 2 drink minimum (after 10% discount) to cover the cost of sectioning off […]

  • Startup Tuesday #11 – China Seed Mentoring Incubator Talk

    This week we’ll have a visiting guest, Cyril Ebersweiler Venture Partner @ SOSventures Int. and Founder of China accelerator Cyril is a venture partner at SOSventures and the founder of the first mentorship-driven seed funding program in China, Chinaccelerator (http://chinaccelerator.com). He will be at our co-working space on Tuesday afternoon and will be make a Q&A sessions from 3pm with people interested to know more about startups, product, fund raising, mentoring and Star Wars. He is mentoring at Techstars, 500startups and OnLab, at the board of several startups and advise some others in Boston, San Francisco, Toronto, Beijing and Shanghai. […]

  • Startup Tuesday 10 – Trip to American coworking + startup groups

    Mike Michelini was just in USA for 3 weeks, he’s back and will share his experiences visiting coworking spaces and startup groups in New York, New Jersey, and California. Also, we’ll discuss the next startup weekend, shenzhen.startupweekend.org on Nov 11 to Nov 13 with visitors from Silicon Valley! Topic/ Agenda: Coworking spaces in USA and startup communities. What: Startups Tuesday, Shenzhen Meetup For Who: People that are in startups, VC, investors, want to get into a startup, or are just curious When: Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 7pm to around 9pm Where: SZteam.com coworking office, (for directions see below) Cost: Free Dress: […]

  • Startup Tuesday #6 – Mike’s Experience Doing Business in Shenzhen

    Mike will be heading to USA next Wednesday, so this Startup Tuesday we want to have him discuss his experiences doing business in Shenzhen the past 4 years…hiring, opening a WFOE, managing, dealing with project management, and fun stories in a Chinese hospital. He has presented this to the Startups Hong Kong group. Topic / Agenda: Case Study of Mike Michelini’s experience doing business in Shenzhen, China . What: Startups Tuesday, Shenzhen Meetup For Who: People that are in startups, VC, investors, want to get into a startup, or are just curious When: Tuesday, Sept 13, 7pm to around 9pm […]

  • Combining Offline Networking with an SNS community 51guanxi.com

    This is a new one, and since late last night I’ve been talking to my friends in China about it, especially Paul Chong in Shanghai. All this effort doing the real-life networking and community building, the web makes it more sticky…and we need to bridge China to the world with the internet…. Today we are opening applications for 51guanxi.com – a members only network for foreigners and Chinese to “bridge” together to build long term, quality business relationships. The team at SZteam will put all their power and network into helping connect Chinese and foreigners, as well as Chinese to […]

  • Startup Tuesday #5 – Reflections of Bootup & Guest Chinese Speaker!

    Tonight will again be on! I keep getting calls and chats. we are trying our best to go against all odds and keep this on a weekly schedule. Tonight we’ll reflect on the last weekend bootup event! Startup formation friday night Startup team bio and photos Judges Recap of the whole event then we’ll have a guest speaker hopefully stopby, our Startups China committee member, Kawai Or will bring his friend: — Clement Huang – Venture Advisor Domain Focus: Internet, Gaming and Cloud Computing http://english.cri.cn/7146/2009/07/30/2021s505358.htm Mr. Clement Huang is the Venture Advisor for Silicon Valley China Wireless and Entrepreneurship Forum, […]