This workshop offers a unique opportunity to hear from successful young startup entrepreneurs in Hong Kong on how they created exciting world class Web 2.0 businesses from scratch with basically a great idea and lots of hard work. These next generation Web applications are fast becoming market leaders in the world. Several Hong Kong Web 2.0 startups will be presenting in the workshop - aNobii, bullpoo, editGrid, and Wazhua.
Speakers will share their Hong Kong startup experiences as well as provide information on the new Web 2.0 market and business models. If you want to build your own startup, or just want to know more about Web 2.0, don't miss this workshop!
27 Jan 2007 [Sat] 2:30-5:30pm
- Audience:Students, IT professionals, entrepreneurs and general public
- Fee: Free of charge
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Venue: City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong
4/F (podium level) Academic Building, Lecture Theatre (LT-10) - Language: English
- For enquires please contact Andy Chun (CityU).
Talks:
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2:30pm "Zen of Web 2.0?"
Speaker: Andy Chun (CityU)
Be enlightened - a Zen journey into the next generation of Web apps
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3:00pm "How Do You Go From Concept To Product - Cheaply?"
Speaker: Greg Sung (aNobii)
From concept to screens
Resource allocation: It's all about man-hours
Collaboration is an art
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3:30pm "Getting the Party Started"
Speaker: Simon Lee (Bullpoo)
Starting and building a community
Building relationships with your members
Web 2.0 social networking
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4:00-4:15pm Break
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4:15pm "Start Early"
Speaker: David Lee (EditGrid)
How to start up in Hong Kong
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4:45pm "The Challenges to Get Started in Hong Kong"
Speaker: Simon Chan (Wazhua)
How to validate your ideas - 2.0?
How to form a team?
How to raise $?
How to execute?
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5:15pm "Q & A"
Speakers:
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Andy Chun -
Andy is currently teaching at CityU's CS Dept. He is also the Programme Leader
for their B.Sc. Computer Science programme. Andy has been an active
technologist in the Asia Pacific region, focusing on advanced
Web technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Business Intelligence.
He also writes a Web 2.0 blog for ZDNet Asia.
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Greg Sung -
Greg is the founder of aNobii. A student of Economics and Political Science, he
pulled his first and only all-nighter in college over a C++ assignment, struggling to
fix his Tic-tac-toe program that would - rather mysteriously - keep winning by
cheating. He has relished the challenge of making things that really work ever since.
As the product manager of aNobii, he spends his day designing interfaces, managing
his ibook, and apologizing to users of IE4, which aNobii proudly does not support.
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Simon Lee -
"Stay hungry, Stay foolish." - Steve Jobs (Founder and CEO of Apple). This is the philosophy that
drives Simon, co-founder of Bullpoo.com, to explore new and experimental ideas and bring them to
life. Simon started Bullpoo with a few friends with the vision of creating an environment for
investors to grow together through collaboration. As chief of development for Bullpoo, Simon also
handles design, operations, customer and investor relations. Launched just a few months ago,
Bullpoo has rapidly grown its presence in the online world, most recently being featured in a story
by the Wall Street Journal.
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David Lee -
David Lee is the development abstraction layer (Google it if you dunno what it means) of EditGrid.
He is the officer of customer services, sales & marketing, technical support, corporate development,
public relations, investor relations. His responsibilities are to provide a resourceful,
comfortable, productive, funny, air-conditioned and non-smoking environment for EditGrid's
development team. David graduated in HKU with double degree of Business and Software Engineering in
2004. He is recently selected by Businessweek as Top 20 Asia Young Entrepreneurs Under 25.
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Simon Chan -
Simon Chan is the co-founder and CEO of Wazhua.com, a media startup company in China.
He's also the founder and director of Crossark. Crossark secured its seed round
funding in 2004, and had successfully transformed itself from a software house to an
IT startup venture. In mid-2004, Crossark moved back from Silicon Valley to Hong
Kong, with a clear vision of the potential of technological businesses in Asia.
Simon studied Computer Science at U of Michigan, Ann Arbor and
received the Distinguished Leadership Award. In California, Simon founded a SAT
Preparation Tutorial Center that had six centers in the Bay Area. He also founded an
E-Marketing firm that focused on marketing to college students in the United States.
After that, Simon built an online tutor matching platform, which was subsequently
sold for profit. Before he began his entrepreneurial career, Simon had contributed
to the software development in E*Trade Financial, Robert Bosch Research Center and
Guidant in the United States.
Simon is enthusiastic about promoting Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. He is a
frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and is also a founding
committee member of The Entrepreneurs' Network, a non-profit organization that
supports entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. He's also the Honorary Secretary of the National
Business Network of JCIHK.
