Silicon Dragon
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Speakers
Venture capitalists, 
Dealmakers & Tech Stars
  
Gary Rieschel
Managing Partner
Qiming Venture Partners
  
Forrest Zhong
Founding & Managing Partner
South River Capital Partners
  
Jenny Lee
Partner
GGV Capital
  
Peter Schloss
Partner
Phoenix Media Fund
  
Hope Chen
Managing Director
DFJ China
  
  Ron Cao
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Lightspeed China Partners
  
Brad Peck
Partner, Cooley LLP
  

Gary

 

Alvin Tse

Manager

Flipboard China

 

Christine Lu

Co-Founder & CEO

Affinity China

   Christine Lu
         
Alvin Wang Graylin
Co-founder & CEO
Quanxi & MInfo
  
Justin Mallen
Founder  
Silk Road Telecommunication
  
 MC: Rebecca Fannin
Founder/Editor/Author
Silicon Dragon
  
Moderators:
Normandy Madden,
Thoughtful China;
Frank Yu, Startup Digest;
Russell Flannery, Forbes 
Rebecca at Yangpu venue   
  Where:
Knowledge & Innovation Community
(near Fudan University)
1F, Seven KIC Plaza,
# 388 Songhu Road
Yangpu District, Shanghai
 
WHEN:
Sept. 12, 2013, 3-8PM
  
PROGRAM:
Investor Panels, Tech Chats, Q&A, Networking, Tour of KIC,
Reception
 
    Thanks to our Sponsors:
Cooley LLP
KPMG
HINA Group
KIC
 
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 HONG KONG
Entrepreneur/VC Chats 
November 14
  
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November 21  
  
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Hans Tung, William Bao Bean Stella Jin Dave McClure  

  Silicon Dragon Beijing 2013 featured two of the world's top 100 venture capitalists, as ranked by the Forbes Midas list.

 

Neil Shen of Sequoia Capital China and Hans Tung of Qiming Venture Partners both spoke

May 29 at Silicon Dragon Beijing, as did some of the globe's top innovative thinkers. See Hans, William Bao Bean of SingTel Innov8, Stella Jin of Keytone Ventures and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, above.

 

Read Forbes post on the VC/dealmaker panel:

Too Many 'Wanta-preneurs' In China Can't Be A Good Thing  http://onforb.es/19rYFa0

 

 

Rebecca with Neil Shen

  Silicon Dragon interviewed Neil Shen of Sequoia Capital China (and co-founder of Ctrip and Home Inns) in Beijing.

 See Silicon Dragon on Youku

See chat with Neil on YouTube

 

Read  Forbes post on Neil Shen and what keeps him from ever growing bored on the job:

onforb.es/17KEbdp

 

 

 See Silicon Dragon take on

how China stacks up on the Forbes Midas list of best VCs

onforb.es/12hhhUQ 

 "20% of the top 100 VCs do China Deals"

 

 

 Silicon Dragon Beijing featured chats

with the City's Leading Tech Stars

 

 That's Chinese serial entrepreneur

Jack Xu (above) speaking at 

Silicon Dragon Beijing on how he imagined Papa and his other Chinese startup, Diandian (the Tumblr of China).

 

View Chat with Jack on YouTube

on Youku 

 

See Forbes post on what makes Jack Tick:

onforb.es/11zkMKY 

 

 

Our Beijing forum also put these star founders in the spotlight: Benjamin Joffe, Founding Partner, CMUNE; Shunee Yee, CSOFT International; Henry Fong, Founder & CEO, Yodo1

  Benjamin Joffe Shunee Yee with Danny Le of KPMG Andy Mok, Henry Fong

 

View these entrepreneurs' tech chats on YouTube, on Youku

with moderators Frank Yu of Startup Digest, Danny Le of KPMG and Andy Mok of Red Pagoda Resources.

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Check out why Alan Guo, Co-founder of Light in the Box, had to miss Silicon Dragon.

He had an appointment on Wall Street.

 

  Alan Guo

 Read "Where's There Light," at Forbes. 

You can also read a profile of Alan and his startup, at Forbes.  

  

 See Silicon Dragon and Startup Asia channels for more viewing

http://bit.ly/10wTUUy

 

  
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Censorship lawsuit against #Baidu and #China gets new life in U.S. rStartup Asia News TWEETS 

 

Jack Ma Alibaba May Be Valued at $200 Billion by 2014 After IPO - Bloomberg http://bloom.bg/15FRJ60
     
Jack Ma to expand online empire as head of #Alibaba new logistics network http://lnkd.in/A7JhQS
  
  
Alibaba's tie-up wit Qihoo in the Chinese e-commerce search space could be set for turbulence  

 

Danger Maps Backed by Alibaba Pinpoint Chinese Pollution - Bloomberg http://bloom.bg/17IhhDx
  
  
Censorship lawsuit against Baidu and China gets new life in U.S. http://reut.rs/190kood 

 

Dangdang to Launch a New Duocon eReader in July http://ebookne.ws/17xSpOK
  
Chinese Microblog Site Tencent Weibo Will Be Baked Into iOS 7, Just Like Facebook, Twitter http://tcrn.ch/14tNsU2
            
New IPOs May Begin Thaw for China firms - China Daily
  
Chinese Smartphone Xiaomi Is Really Not A Knock-Off Of The iPhone @silicondragon @forbes http://onforb.es/124wcW7  
  
INDIA
Snapdeal closes $50M Series D funding round, brings new investors on board http://bit.ly/12uxlro
  
JustDial Finally Gets A Ring Tone With IPO in India and Could Spur More  @rfannin post @ Forbes  http://onforb.es/ZQrDP7
  

 

CULTURE & TRAVEL

Changing China: The New Humility 

Rebecca's post at Huffington Post: huff.to/192oE9m

 

  

 

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Rebecca at AmCham Beijing

AmCham Beijing talk,

May 28

 
Silicon Dragon,
Startup Asia Talks

 

  
  
  
 
Rebecca Fannin @rfannin) of Silicon Dragon Ventures @TiEcon

TiEcon annual conference in Silicon Valley

Moderated 2 panels & was interviewed on TV

May 18

 
  UPCOMING      

June 17, 6-8PM

 Penn Club, 30 W. 44th Street  

    New York City

 

Panel: Startup China & Venture Economic Trends 
Ron Schramm, CEO, China Macro Finance; 
Professor, Columbia University
Harry Edelson, Managing Director, Edelson Technology Partners
Michael A. Zakkour, Head of China/APAC Group;
Principal at Tompkins International
Moderator: Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Dragon 
  
 Penn Club registration fee: $65, includes reception
RSVP: Silicon Dragon, [email protected]
  
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InnovyzSTART   August 13  Adelaide, Australia 
  World Economic Forum  Sept. 10-11 Dalian, China
  
  
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