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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

After last week’s startup Tuesday, Bruce discussed business model generation and it was just not enough time to fully cover and get into examples. So after our feedback, we will continue and expand on this discussion, applying real world business models to it. Also at this meetup, we will discuss about a BOOTup weekend and discuss when / if there is enough people interested to start it on a weekend of September 2-4, we have been receiving applications. Topic / Agenda: Business model generation. What: Startups Tuesday, Shenzhen Meetup For Who: People that are in startups, VC, investors, want to […]

Startups Shenzhen + SZteam are doing another first for Shenzhen here at Shenzhen Team. For three days, 20 eager entrepreneurs will both learn and work on their own startups. If you are a student, designer, developer, or just enthusiastic about starting your own company, this is something to not miss. We are aiming for September 2nd to the 4th….we know that is one and a half weeks away….but so many people at Startup Tuesdays want it, we are gonna see how many applicants we can get, we have a good amount of support from mentors and judges and sponsors. Here […]

Thanks again to Bruce Levin for coming tonight and speaking on business model generation. We had a solid 35 to 40 people showing up, again a good mix, actually a better quality mix, of Chinese and foreigner, technical and business, entrepreneur and investor. It keeps getting better and better. He is willing to share his slides, you can download them – Introduction to Business Model Generation I took some notes, and as usual past them below. Business model generation NOT a business plan. What is a business model? Describes rationale how a business creates, delivers, and captures value. think things […]

Our first weekly speaker will start at our 3rd startup Tuesday in Shenzhen. Bruce Levin will discuss business model generation, covering-v what is a Business Model? A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value. It can be described using nine basic building blocks that show the logic of how a company intends to make money. The nine blocks cover the four main areas of a business: • Customers • Offer • Infrastructure • Financial viability The business model is a blueprint for a strategy to be implemented through organizational structures, processes, and systems. […]

Our 2nd “startup tuesday” here in Shenzhen was based on the “basics” (from the prior week’s audience feedback and level) as we felt people needed to start from ground level to make sure we don’t leavev anyone behind. The slides are here Basically, we went over “what is a startup”, how to “form a startup” (explain a startup doesnt really need to be a formal company at the beginning, how to deal with partners, payment methods, project planning) This time, people really wanted to remember who came! So as we went around the room, I typed this list. Sorry if […]

After a great turnout from the Fist Startup Tuesday in Shenzhen, we listened to people and feel there is a great desire for a support community and hub for startups….but there were quite a few people who just need some basic understanding of what is a startup, how to get involved in one, and other basics. So we will start a series in the next few meetings going through various phases of a startup and get ideas and input from the community. Also at this meetup, we will discuss about a startup WEEKEND and discuss when / if there is […]