Shenzhen Team, or SZteam (we picked a shorter english name for a bunch of reasons: The internet is all about short URLs – the full name of Shenzhen is too long, SZ is commonly known to both foreigners and Chinese to represent Shenzhen. Twitter and Weibo – online, there are limits more and more to the length of a URL, especially microblogging, so only 6 characters Easier for Chinese to remember – sure, many other English websites in Shenzhen are spelled out like shenzhen-standard.com , shenzhenstuff.com , shenzhenparty.com – but those sites are doing 2 things, targetting SEO for the […]

Been talking to more and more people that want to network with other startups in Shenzhen….there are many around, well lets DO IT! We will use the SZteam.com office for the place, and pick Tuesday night 7pm to get people together. What: Startups Shenzhen Meetup For Who: People that are in startups or curious When: Tuesday, Aug 9, 7pm to around 9pm Where: SZteam.com coworking office, (see below) Cost: Free Dress: Casual Agenda: This is the first one, I think lets just have an open round table for those who attend to see how many people are interested, what kind […]

Thank you for those who attended the launch party. We have some signups now, and want to see —- Dear SZteam launch party attendee, Thanks so much for attending the Thursday July 21 szteam.com launch party. We had a great time and believe everyone else there did too! We didn’t get time to have a formal speech, but please take a minute to fill out the below survey, even if you’re not interested in becoming a member, ideas and feedback is greatly helpful in our development. Take our survey! Regards, SZteam office crew —– Please take the time to give […]

The first Shenzhen coworking office, SZteam is now open! We will debute this coworking space with a launch party (open house) on Thursday, July 21 from 7pm to 10pm. We will provide complimentary wine and tea and snacks! The purpose of this event is to introduce the first coworking space in Shenzhen to the community, allow some business networking, and discuss future events and groups that can form inside this new SOHO community! Where is it? South part of Nanshan High Tech Park. Take the Shenzhen Metro to stop Ke Yuan on the Shekou line – address is Nanjing Univ […]

Whose idea was it to open a coworking space in Shenzhen? I know it’s absurd to call a metropolis like Shenzhen a “second-tier city”, but people do talk about it that way, and as far as I can find, this means you’d be opening the first coworking space in China outside the first-tier cities. Is that true? What makes you think the idea will work in Shenzhen? Why Shenzhen and not Guangzhou? We both came about the same idea in different ways, and fortunately got put in touch over the internet at about the right time. I’ll start with Mike […]

This week has been the “setup week” making multiple trips to IKEA store to purchase tables and chairs and other decor. After meetings and strategy, we will use next week as a “soft launch” having people come and visit, get early bird discounts, and get the word out. Already have had about 5- 7 people visit and interested in utilizing the space either for their own use, their staff use, or meetings / community building. Then we will have a launch party on Thursday, July 21. I have been inviting the HK coworking (boot hk) and startups hk to check […]