Silicon Dragon
 Gong Xi Fa Cai   Gung Hei Fat Choi  
                                              
Happy New Year of the Snake                                                    www.silicondragonventures.com
  
Springboard to China
February 20
Google Campuus 
 
Digital Media Innovators & The VCs
Speakers:
Jim Robinson, RRE Ventures
Brian Cohen, New York Angels
Kamran Ansari, Greycroft; Glenn Nash, Sidley
Porter Bibb, MediaTech Capital Jimmy Maymann, Huffington Post
Rich Karlgaard, Forbes
Alex Iskold, GetGlue
 NASDAQ, March 21
 
From Startup to Scale
Speakers: Fritz Demopoulos, Neil Shen, Melissa Guzy, Dave McClure, Tytus Michalski, Ted Lai, Yat Siu, Anthony Zameczkowski
Cyberport, April 18
 
BEIJING
Tech Stars of Tomorrow
Opposite House, May 29
 
SHANGHAI
China's Venture Hub 
September 12 
 
SILICON VALLEY
Dragon Innovators go Global
 October 3
 
HONG KONG VIP
Entrepreneur/VC Award 
November 14
  
 
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 FEATURED EVENT:

Silicon Dragon 

 London 2013

  Springboard to China:

Tips and Trends to Tap the Chinese Market

 

When: February 20, 3-8PM

Where: Google Campus

 

 

Featuring venture investors, execs  and entrepreneurs active in China

Savio Kwan Hermann Hauser  

Savio Kwan

Former CEO, Alibaba

Hermann Hauser

MD, Amadeus Capital

Martin Bloom

Chairman, NYSE-listed ReneSola MD, Emblem Ventures
 
Bruno Bensaid

Founder, ShanghaiVest

Member, AngelVest

Jason Ma

Founder, ThreeEQ /

Co-Founder, YeePay

Alexander Trewby

Co-Founder & CCO, Enterproid

Leon Gillespie

Manager, Private Equity,  KPMG

Benjamin Joffe

 Co-Founder, CMUNE

Oscar Jazdowski

 Senior Manager, SVB Financial

Adam Cook

Partner, DLA Piper

MC: Rebecca Fannin

Founder, Silicon Dragon

 

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Chinese wine toast bamboo flute calligrapher
  
OUR CHINESE NEW YEAR RECEPTION
  
It was an energetic, fun-filled evening as we celebrated the Year of the Snake in New York City. Some 188 guests mingled for Chinese wine-tasting, live music, a display of contemporary Chinese artworks, calligraphy demonstrations as well as toasts and talks by Rebecca Fannin of Silicon Dragon, Thomas Moebus of the SUNY Confucius Institute for Business and Elizabeth Wang of the Chinese Cultural Foundation.  
 

 

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with clips and interviews at the event 

 

 

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Spring Reception of the Chinese New Year

 

Special thanks to The Hina Group

The Chinese wine we tasted was a Cabernet Sauvignon, Bordeaux blend that was transported from Xiangdu Winery in arid Xinjiang, China especially for this event. Our thanks to The Hina Group, a cross-border Chinese investment bank and private equity firm with interests in the wine business, for sharing this 2009 wine, a 7th vintage from a Chinese winery operated by Madame Li.

 

Special thanks to our artists

Painter Zhiyuan Cong for a display of Chinese ink and color paintings

Calligrapher Wei Zheng for providing our guests a Chinese character with their name and birth year

Musician Zifei Wang for playing a traditional Chinese bamboo flute

 

 

By invitation only and for our Silicon Dragon Circle members.   

 

New York City

February 7, 2013

Thanks to our sponsors Sidley Austin, HINA Group  
 
 
 Can YEAR OF THE SNAKE
Really Also Mean
YEAR OF THE LITTLE DRAGON? 
  
Silicon Dragon greetings 

This 2013 year of Snake connotes steady progress and attention to detail. Focus and discipline are necessary to achieve success. The Snake is enigmatic, intuitive, introspective, refined and collected. Ancient Chinese wisdom says a Snake in the house is a good omen because it means that your family will not starve.

zodiac snake-like dragon 

 

Of all the 12 zodiac animals, the snake most resembles the dragon in appearance. In fact, the snake is sometimes called the "little dragon" -- and special thanks to Sidley partner Xiaowen Qiu for pointing this out!

 

The Dragon is considered the most powerful and lucky of all the zodiac animals. Some of this aura rubs off onto the person born in the Year of the Snake.

 

 

 Characteristics of People Born in the Year of Snake
People born in the Year of the Snake are reputed to be thoughtful and wise and to approach problems rationally and logically, seldom instinctively. Such people are complex beings, they are clever and of few words from their birth. People born in the Year of the Snake also have a sure touch in money matters but are inclined to be greedy and somewhat egoistical. Snakes are also very insightful and naturally intuitive. If anyone has a sixth sense, it's those born in the Snake year. This is partly what makes them so mysterious.

 

YEARS OF THE SNAKE

1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001

 

YEARS OF THE DRAGON

1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000
  

Read more about the Zodiac signs and figure out what year you were born in. Click Hanban.com 

 

  
 
 

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