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FEATURED EVENT
Silicon Dragon
Sydney 2013
November 7, 5-8PM
The Bridge to Silicon Valley, China and Emerging Markets: Startup Strategies
VC / DEALS PANEL
Bill Bartee
Southern Cross Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures
Hamish Hawthorne
ATP Innovations
Benjamin Chong
Right Click Capital
Jana Matthews
ANZ InnovyzSTART
David Morris
DLA Piper
Rebecca Fannin
Silicon Dragon / Startup Asia
TECH CHATS
Andrew Rallings
VP-Operations, Atlassian
Daniel Friedman
CEO, Ninja Blocks
Cocktail Reception
Hong Kong House
80 Druitt Street, Sydney
Thanks to our sponsors:
DLA Piper, InvestHK
By invitation only and
Silicon Dragon Circle members
UPCOMING EVENTS
HONG KONG
Silicon Dragon Awards
Entrepreneur and VC of the Year
Plus tech and VC panel:
Jeff Chi, Vickers Capital Group
Rui Ma, 500 Startups
Henry Wong, Garage Ventures
Brian Wong, Seacliff Partners
Li Gong, SAP, My Runway
James Mi, Lightspeed China
November 14, 2013, 5-8PM
Hysan Place, 23rd floor
500 Hennessy Road
For sponsorship and
speaking opportunities, email
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PARTNER EVENTS
October 22, San Jose
Silicon Dragon members
enter code Dragon 20 for 20% discount
Adelaide, November 4
December 2-7
12 finalists have been selected for the StartMeUp.HK program. They include five ventures from the U.S., two each from India and Canada, and one each from New Zealand, Hong Kong and Israel. Three award winners will be chosen at a special program, Dec. 5.
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Panelists Lily Zheng, Deloitte; Karen Boezi, Redwood Bioscience; Rebecca Fannin, Diana Ding, DingDingTV;
Elizabeth Xu, Axciom at HYSTA in SF
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Berkeley China Forum
November 17, Berkeley
HKVCA Investment Conference
December 6, Hong Kong
European Technology Leaders Summit
London, February 3-4, 2014
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VIDEO CLIPS
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It's a Wrap on the (Sand) Hill!
 | VC/Dealmaker panelists: Rob Trice, Portia Ku, Melissa Guzy, John Dougery, Hans Tung, Hany Nada, moderator Rebecca Fannin
 | | Innovator Hank Wuh, TruTag Technologies, chats with Diana Ding |
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Silicon Dragon & Tiger on Sand Hill Road 2013
Out-Takes
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Videos:
Tech Chat: Hank Wuh, Chairman, TruTag Technologies
Tech Chat: Omar Khan, Co-CEO, NQ Mobile
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Steve Goldberg, Venrock; Gary Matuszak, KPMG; Naveen Dhar, Huawei
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Thanks to our sponsors O'Melveny & Myers, InvestHK, KPMG
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KPMG spills the data on tech trends
Cloud, mobile, big data, biometrics, artificial intelligence - are leading the innovation parade from Main Street to corporate parks. These are the engines of rapid transformation in a technologically rooted future. Just about half the far-out science fiction technologies from past entertainment programs such as Star Trek, The Jetsons or Terminator exists today.
See KPMG Tech Innovation 2013 report, with contributions and interviews by Rebecca Fannin.
HERO CITY LAUNCH COURTESY OF TIM DRAPER
 
The recent opening of Draper University's Hero City drew quite a crowd to the streets of San Mateo to watch rappellers descending down the former Ben Franklin hotel and enjoy other festivities -- all in the name of risk-taking and creating future entrepreneurial stars.
CHINA
SPECIAL REPORT: The 2013 Forbes China 400 Rich List.
http://ow.ly/pRz2x
The 100 wealthiest are worth $316.45 billion, up an amazing 44% from 2012.
Video: Chinese investment in the U.S., a discussion with Jim Rogers, Wang Jianlin, John King and more http://onforb.es/GXVfli
Stephen Roach says fears of a China slowdown are vastly overblown http://ow.ly/pKxYN
| | Sierra Ventures leads $10 million financing of China's social marketing service Social Touch. GGV Capital and Legend Capital participated in the Series C round.
IDG Capital has funneled $40 million to Chinese catering chain Quanjude, known best for its Peking duck dishes
ClearVue Partners and Oak Investment Partners inject $15 million investment in Chinese shopping portal B5M.
INDIA
Sequoia Capital pours $4 million in data center automation startup Idea Device.
IDG Ventures India and Inventus put $2 million in Unbxd, a product recommendation platform for e-commerce companies.
AustralASIA
New Zealand's accounting software company Xero Bolsters U.S. Beachhead for Intuit Attack with nearly $150 million in investment from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, others http://on.wsj.com/1clRwJ3
I spotlighted Xero in this recent Forbes post:
onforb.es/1bLhjd1
Accel looks to up its deals in Australia in search of more new heroes following a win with OzForex IPO
onforb.es/18W538Q
"Great week for ANZ tech. IPO at Ozforex Cap raising at Xero & prospectus lodged at Freelancer" -- Paul Bassat, Square Peg Capital
IN OTHER NEWS . . . 
It was fun being interviewed by
BBC Radio's program World Tonight on one of my fave subjects,
'Is This The Asia Century?'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bsbbg
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