[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-05-13 Thread drllau
> What's your view of Zhongguancun? Blossoming hub or overhyped "to attract > the overseas FDI and established companies". > Since I haven't been to Beijing, I can't authoritively say. However, I had a look at the Shanghai software park equivalent list of tenants and my impression is that quite a

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Ho
great insights, thanks Laurence. I've spoken to a few people, and October seems to be a good time as there's a few tech event's I'm interested in. Techcrunch Disrupt will be in Beijing for the first time and AllThingsD in HK. There's also a few local startup meetups in HK too. I read this article

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-05-11 Thread Brent Shepherd
Lawrence, thanks for an excellent summary. Regarding the statement "ignore the provincial R&D parks ... look instead at small localised clusters". What's your view of Zhongguancun? Blossoming hub or overhyped "to attract the overseas FDI and established companies". I'd also like to add an explan

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-05-11 Thread drllau
Since I was in shanghai a couple of years ago I'll share my impressions (biased as they are) a) culture - forget about communism ... the average youngster has a strong appetite for getting rich (through fair or foul means) ... you meet up with migrant laborers who have a dream of starting up their

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-04-25 Thread Rex Chung
Although I haven't lived in China, from I have seen and heard, starting companies and competing there are super difficult. Unless you have a strong network and understands the government policies very well already, it'll take you a lot of time to build up that knowledge, which is essential to any s

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-04-25 Thread Matthew Ho
Thanks for the responses Rex, Roy and Tony. I'm just interested in checking out the scene over there and knowing more about the Chinese startup environment. The more I explore about the Chinese market, the more my eyes open to these startups and the scale of these startups. This year, I've used A

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-04-21 Thread Tony Liu
Hi Matt, Are you interested in investment or you want to do a startup there? Check this one: http://gmic.greatwallclub.com/ On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Matthew Ho wrote: > cool > > thanks Roy. Can you email me some of those? Would be good to check it > out, will need to brush up on the ma

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-04-21 Thread Matthew Ho
cool thanks Roy. Can you email me some of those? Would be good to check it out, will need to brush up on the mando! On Apr 20, 8:45 pm, Roy Hui wrote: > Hey Matt, > > Check out this event listing, there is one in Kaohsiung early > June.http://www.mmv.vic.gov.au/InternationalICTevents > ITS Aust

[SiliconBeach] Re: Tech Conferences in Taiwan / China

2011-04-20 Thread Roy Hui
Hey Matt, Check out this event listing, there is one in Kaohsiung early June. http://www.mmv.vic.gov.au/InternationalICTevents ITS Australia and Multimedia Victoria are organising the Aussies for that event. Shanghai has huge startup events, but they are mostly in Chinese, I can email you some if