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Hong Chen, Chairman, The Hina Group

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Si Shen, Co-Founder & CEO,

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Alibaba leader Jack Ma with Rebecca Fannin at his Hangzhou office, circa 2006, during interview for my book,

Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race (McGraw-Hill, 2008)

The Alibaba Bump

As Alibaba gets ready to ring the bell in New York likely in late summer, look for at least four more China tech IPOs in the next few weeks as a rush is on to avoid bumping up against Alibaba's mega IPO in the U.S. All the new companies getting ready to begin trading on NASDAQ or the NYSE are feeding off of China's booming online consumer and digital tech markets. If Alibaba does well, expect a surge of Chinese tech companies to go public in the U.S.

See Silicon Dragon post at Forbes, Alibaba bump

The Alibaba Edge

What Alibaba has going for it as the giant e-commerce conglomerate goes public in New York is its reach, and its visionary and eccentric leader, arguably China's Steve Jobs - Jack Ma.

Alibaba has an undeniable edge in China's fast-moving digital economy. The e-commerce conglomerate

is a combination of eBay (TaoBao), PayPal (AliPay), Amazon (Tmall, Aliyun), Orbitz (Taobao Travel) and Google GOOG +1.51% Play (Aliyun App Store) - and of course, there's that Yahoo connection too.

Plus, Alibaba has recently made several acquisitions that put the company into more of the hottest tech arenas: YouTube (Youku), Google mobile (Quixey and Shin Ma), Twitter (Weibo), Google Maps (AutoNavi) and WhatsApp (Laiwang, Tango).

See Silicon Dragon post at Forbes, Alibaba edge

Posing at Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou during AliFest, circa 2011

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Interviewing Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes

at his Sydney office

Why Can't Sydney Be More Like San Francisco?

Australia's startup scene may finally be starting to get bubbly, years after China and India already their own tech bubbles and are on to a new generation of more innovative startups with global appeal.

What Australia needs to boost its venture capital and entrepreneurial adrenalin is more heroes from the startup world. China has Jack Ma, Robin Li and Pony Ma, India has Narayan Murthy of Infosys Infosys, Azim Premji of Wipro, Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip and inMobi's Naveen Tewari. All of these entrepreneurial heroes date back more than a decade.

Australia is only on the cusp of a mini-entrepreneurial revolution fueled by its first generation of startup heroes. Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, comes to mind.

Read Forbes post: If only

2013 2012

1. Global $48.5 B $ 47.6 B

2. U.S. $33.1 B $ 32.8 B

3. China $3.5 B $ 5.0B

4. India $1.8 B $ 1.6B

Aus $111 million $ 139 million

Source: Dow Jones Venture Source, AVCAL

ASIA FUNDS

Emerald Hill raises $300 million for third fund of funds

http://bit.ly/1seUJjw

CHINA

Chinese online tour operator backed by DCM, Sequoia and Gobi goes public on NASDAQ

onforb.es/1qntTKk

Alibaba's chairman Ma's dealings raise red flags for IPO: mix of conflicting interests draws warnings http://www.ifre.com/at-chinas-alibaba-chairman-mas-dealings-raise-red-flags/21144658.article

Alibaba and VIEs: A Primer - China Real Time Report - WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1kKTohq

INDIA ™

Olympus Capital Asia and India Value Fund have invested a further $65 million in Indian hospital chain Aster http://ow.ly/wzY4D

Bessemer leads Series B round for India's TaxiForSure http://ift.tt/1fJfnYy http://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Discovery fashion site Lime raises $15 million in second round from Tiger Global http://tcrn.ch/1l4f332

Partners Group opens Mumbai office http://bit.ly/1jeeOkx

JAPAN

Japan's flea market app 10sec raises $1.6 million from CyberAgent http://bit.ly/1fZrNfp

WORTH NOTING

Wheat vs. Rice: How China's North-South Culinary Divide Shapes Personality - WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1uIZSUT

A Silver Lining in Beijing Smog: Soaring Pollution Penalty Revenues - Businessweek http://buswk.co/1jhn1ct

Christie's Sells Monet to Chinese Collector for $27 Million

WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1kLdMxG

The Chinese are coming, and it's going to be fine. Foreign Policy atfp.co/1kGF08I

Silicon Dragon: GETTING QUOTED

Canada TV News: Eccentric billionaire who may soon be part of your Internet experience bit.ly/1l4jDyi

Skip ahead to the 14-minute mark to see my video interview with CTV News

San Jose Mercury News: Alibaba signals that China is an innovative tech center http://bit.ly/1seYWDH

SPEAKING APPEARANCES

Speaker: CeBIT Australia

VC Investment Trends

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May 5-7, 2014 Sydney

Moderator: The Asian Business Angel Forum 2014

May 21-22, 2014 Hong Kong

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