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Startup Tea House Hosts Entrepreneurs / Co-founders Mixer with Music & Tea

Startup Tea House, a few and growing community for entrepreneurs who are looking for social will host a entrepreneurs / co-founders mixer at Silicon Valley Innovation Center at April 1st

Event co-hosted with Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (We have 300+ people registered)

World Music and Dance: Julia Steward, M.A & her band.
www.YouTube.com/juliasteward

Lead Tea House Advocator: Fashion Model Merica

Tea & Art Collection (You will see more at the event)

Agenda:

11AM: Tea, Wine, Music Dance, Social

11:45PM: Lightning Talk by entrepreneurs who are looking for co-founders & Partners

12:15PM: Lunch

April 1, 2012 Posted by | Entrepreneurs, Mobile Event, SV-Entrepreneurs | | Leave a Comment

Attend Google TV Hackaton To Win IO2012 Ticket

Google TV Hackathon, hosted by SVAndroid, sponsored by Google, invited Android and Web developers to take this great chance to build a great Google TV App (Can be web!) to win Google IO 2012 ticket, and met with few great judges to review your app :) Big thanks to our sponsor Google TV team!

Event Updates

A limited number of tickets to Google I/O will be made available to some winners (Not all winners can win this). Google TV team will confirm the numbers later.

Two of the judges have been selected and announced:

Blake Krikorian (@blakekrik), co-founder and former CEO of Sling Media

Mark Mangiola, Venture Partner at Canaan Partners

Coordination with a linked event in London should add some “virtual flair” to both venues. Facility space will be limited, and a sell-out seems likly. You must register to attend. I am sure it will worth your effort for the 2 days and one night! I told yah!! 

Here are some details:

Agenda (Formal draft)

Friday, April 20, 2012 Kick-Off

19:00:00 Happy Hour

Team ideas announced in screen. Social time.

19:30:00 “Orientation(Live Stream to Global event)” “Google TV Overview(Live Stream to Global event)”

20:30:00 Team Pitches ~ 1 hour

Saturday, April 21, 2012 Hacking

8:00:00 Breakfast

8:30:00 Short kick-off

9:00:00 Hack Lunch  (on your own) Hack organize demo schedule (teams sign up)

9:30 – Noon: 4-5 Google TV Tech Sessions and Hangout with Google Engineers

17:00:00 midway hacking demo session  (happy hour) Q&A for rules and qualification or the contest late-night snack

20:00:00 Developer Hangout

Sunday, April 22, 2012 Hacking & Demos

8:00:00 Breakfast

8:30:00 Short kick-off – schedule review

9:00:00 Hack Lunch  (on your own) Hack

15:00:00 snacks – organize for demos apk delivered

16:30:00 “Final Presentations – Panel /drinks&snacks(Live Stream to Global event)”

19:00:00 Award Ceremony
We also plan to make this event a global event using YT Live Streaming and Hangouts, and invite other GTUGs and ADGs to organize event at same time.
Content:

  • 3 tracks:
    • New Google TV Apps
    • Port existing Web or  Tablet/Phone Android Apps to Google TV Android Apps
    • Multi Screen Apps
  • Office Hours

Prizes:

  • Winners:
  • from Judge Panel (3)
    • New
    • Migrated
    • multiscreen
  • from popular vote (1): Organized by SVAndroid, cash prize (all the income generated by the ticket sales minus the any direct cost)

Judges:

Blake Krikorian

Blake Krikorian is a co-founder and the former CEO of Sling Media, a consumer electronics company that builds the highly acclaimed Slingbox.

The company was founded in 2004. It was purchased in 2007 by Echostar Communications for $380 million dollars.

Krikorian started his career at General Magic, which created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript, an agent-based network programming language for the emerging electronic marketplace (pre-Internet). At General Magic, Krikorian assisted industry-leading telecom and consumer electronics companies such as NTT, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, OKI and Matsushita/Panasonic in creating and defining new products and partnerships.

In 1994, Krikorian co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line.

Mark Mangiola

Venture Partner, Canaan Partners Ventures 

Mark Mangiola joined Canaan in 2001 after over 20 years in operational leadership roles in the cable and broadband industry. Mark invests in communications companies that are transforming the delivery of digital media, as well as new consumer content companies that meld entertainment with interactivity. An advisor to YouTube, Mark has a visionary outlook about how consumers will watch and interact with content in the future, having participated first hand in the early emergence of both cable TV and the Internet.

A super-connected industry veteran, Mark leverages his network to fill key executive positions at Canaan’s portfolio companies and helps them spearhead strategic relationships with industry-leading corporations. Prior to Canaan, Mark served as CEO of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home. He was previously the President and CEO of Positive Communications and an Executive VP at KBLCOM/Time Warner.

When Mark is not thinking about how consumer-generated video will change the world, he is sprinting around a track. A passionate athlete, Mark coaches high-school and college track athletes and never misses a Meet of Champions track meet.

This event is not for profit.  All the income goes to the event cost (Anything our Sponsor Google cannot cover) and prizes for People’s Choice (Well, this is another reason you should attend).

Online Participation:

Google+:

https://plus.google.com/100213579863051357900

Twitter: #gtvhackathon

Our team still working on the details of the official rules and details which will be announced soon.

 

For more details, see the full listing:

http://www.svandroid.org/events/51143042/

When: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:00 PM

March 29, 2012 Posted by | android, Google TV, GTUG | , | Leave a Comment

Tencent Helps iOS Game Developers to Cross Borders at Great Wall Club’s Mobile Game Salon During the Game Developer Conference

AN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Tencent announced its future strategy to build up closer partnerships with Apple on March 9th at the Mobile Game Innovation and Startup with China event, hosted by Great Wall Club, a dynamic international network with a rapidly growing C-level member base in the Mobile Internet industry, and 36Kr.com, the most popular blogging website focusing on Internet startups in China. This event, as an ancillary event of the Game Developers Conference – the top game summit in San Francisco – has drawn more than 220 game developers and entrepreneurs.

Si Shen, CEO and co-founder of Papaya Mobile; Shirley Lin, Executive Vice President of Beintoo; Bin She, founder and CEO of Firevale; Thomas Luo, the chief writer at CBN Weekly; and Victor Tong, Managing General Partner and founder of Webplus Ventures, as well as a lean angel investor, shared the landscapes of their game businesses and their tactics of developing users and partnerships in China. The speeches were followed with a panel discussion highlighting the monetization of mobile games in the Chinese market.

Tencent Holding, has the 3rd highest market value Internet companies worldwide, the leading and most popular social network and game platform in China with more than 700 million active users, sponsored this event. Ian Song, Director of mobile ecosystem development of Tencent US, addressed the strong interest to support iOS developers via Tencent products like Tencent Weibo, a very popular Chinese microblog with over 300 million users, who can tweet any time any where on their iPhone & iPad. “We’d like to support the mobile innovation on iOS and share our value, our revenue and user base with the developers on iOS,” said Ian, while a New iPad (3rd generation) was given away to a lucky attendee.

Tencnet US is currently playing a key role in the company’s long term going global strategy. It has invested in a series of game startups in San Francisco and the bay area, which demonstrates its ability to fit into the US market and its long-term commitment to contribute to the innovative mobile and social game ecosystem in Silicon Valley. “It’s a great honor and pleasure to help Silicon Valley and China based game startups achieve success in the Chinese market,” said Ian.

Source: Great Wall Club Inc (US)

March 16, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , | Leave a Comment

Yes, the droid guys/girls will dance with music at SVAndroid’s Chrome event 3/14

No kidding: Music, Dance, Tea @ Chrome on Android, Google TV, and mobile

Has been more than three years for SVAndroid.  Indeed boring, for just demos and presentations, at least for myself. But I found a great reason to do something fun during GDC (Game Developers Conference): innovation and creativity.

Many events/Booth in GDC are fun, sexy, cute.  While I was thinking about how to learn from it, I met with Julia Steward, M.A. at my Startup Tea House event. Its a great timing. I will never agree to do it, if its one year ago; but now, I loved the idea immediately!

More about Julia Steward, M.A. and her World Music and Dance:
www.YouTube.com/juliasteward

I am sure we will have more fun, down the road.

Detail of this event:

http://www.svandroid.org/events/27519531/

March 14, 2012 Posted by | android, Chrome | , | Leave a Comment

Google Announced Google IO 2012 Registration Date March 27 at 7 AM PDT

From Google+ Vic Gundotra  -  9:53 AM  -  Public
We’ve announced the date that registration opens for Google I/O 2012.

Check out the website for details on registration, opening on March 27 at 7 AM PDT

https://developers.google.com/io

#io12

March 13, 2012 Posted by | GoogleIO, GTUG | | Leave a Comment

Great Wall Club Reaches Out to SF Mobile Game commnunity

From Great Wall Club blog

On the second day of Game Developers Conference (GDC), Great Wall Club and 36kr co-hosted a public event, “Mobile Game Innovation and Startup with China”, at Westin St Francis, San Francisco yesterday on March 8th, 2012. This event has drawn more than 220 game developers and entrepreneurs showed up, focusing on Chinese mobile gaming industry and the general startups.

Si Shen, the CEO of PapayaMobile, Shirly Lin, VP of Beintoo, She Bin, CEO of Firevale, Thomas Luo, the chief writer at CBN Weekly and Victor Tong, the founder of Webplus, and a “lean” angel investor have each delivered a presentation as well as a panel discussion about “Tactics for Mobile Gaming Monetization in China”.

Tencent, as the sponsor of the event, offering one New iPad (3rd generation) as a prize for the Tencent Weibo (Chinese microblog launched by Tencent). Ian Song, the director of Business Development from Tencent said, “Tencent take serious of the partnerships with Apple. We like to support the mobile innovation on iOS and share our value, our revenue and userbase with the developers on iOS. “

Tencent Weibo is very popular in China with over 300 million users. Users can tweet any time any where on their iPhone & iPad through Tencent Weibo.”

March 11, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | | Leave a Comment

Mobile Game Innovation & Startup With China – By Great Wall Club Inc

Great Wall Club Inc (US) together with 36kr will host a public event during Game Developer Conference (GDC2012) at SF.

Mobile Game Innovation and Startup with China

Date: March. 8th, 6: 00pm(PST)
Location:
Westin St Francis
St Francis Suite (12th floor)
335 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Language: English

36Kr (36Kr.com) is the most popular blog focusing on internet startup in China. Since its start in Dec. 2010, it has been reporting over 200 well-recognized early-stage internet products in China. For the past year, it has grown from a tech blog to a multi-functional platform providing comprehensive service to startups in all of the internet related sectors.

Currently, 36Kr has been working extremely hard to create more values for their readers, entrepreneurs and investors. And now they want to connect their indigenous knowledge and experience of everything China to the Silicon Valley so that people will better understand the chinese tech environment.

In order to communicate with 36kr readers in US, co-hosted with the Great Wall Club US,  this event will focus very much on Chinese mobile gaming industry and the general startups. The panel discussion will highlight mobile gaming monetization, addressing how to make REAL money in China and US. We hope this can pave ways for opportunities on both sides.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30pm   Registration
6:30 – 6:45pm   Opening & Introduction
6:50 – 7:50pm   Brief Presentations

  • Thomas Luo - Typical misunderstandings between startup entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China
  • Bin She - Differences between successful web/social games from East and West, and how to make a successful social game in China market
  • Si Shen - Mobile Gaming Trends in US and China

7:50 – 8:20pm Panel Discussion
Topic: Tactics for Mobile Gaming Monetization in China
8:20 – 8:30pm Q & A

Register for China's Mobile Gaming Salon - Silicon Valley on Eventbrite
Confirmed Speakers:

  • Bin She: Bin is CEO and Co-founder of Firevale, a new social gaming startup based in Beijing. Firevale is travelling to attend Game Developer Conference in March.
  • Thomas Luo: Thomas is the chief writer at CBN Weekly, the most popular business magazine in China. He moved to Silicon Valley as the publication’s US-based correspondent. He is a seasoned reporter/editor covering technology, mobile and new media and has been following the most cutting edge tech products and trends closely.
  • Victor Tong: Victor is the founding Managing General Partner of Webplus Ventures, the founder of Webplus, and a “lean” angel investor. He invested in Webplus and many other companies in Internet and wireless Internet, e-commerce, online games, social networking, gaming/lottery, outsourcing, and healthcare in China and USA.
  • Antonio Tomarchio: Antonio Tomarchio is the founder, President and CEO of Beintoo, based in Milan, Italy and Silicon Valley in California. Beintoo is a mobile gamification platform provider with non-intrusive mechanics that deepens player’s achievement experiences by bringing real rewards. Beintoo was awarded the top winner of the pan-Europe conference Le Web 2011 Startup Competition last December.
  • Andy Parng: Andy is the founder and CEO of Specialdeals.com and Yikuair.com. As a new startup in Beijing and San Jose, Yikuair aims to build a self-expanding platform connecting online users and offline businesses without burning money. It added the “micro payment” improvement to the one-to-one traction requiring the buyer to pay only a small service to secure the discount first and then pay merchants directly the discounted price.

Partners:

 

 

About 36Kr 

36Kr (36氪) is a tech blog focusing on internet startup, whose name comes from the 36th element “Krypton”(chemical symbol “Kr”) in Periodic Table. It’s said Krypton Planet is where Supermen come from.

Currently, 36Kr.com has boasted as one of the most popular blogs in Chinese internet entrepreneurship. It releases the most recent news and analysis about internet startup and technology.

Meanwhile, 36Kr opens up “Seeking for report” channel, exposing excellent startups and products in China. Besides reporting startups for free, 36Kr has constructed “36Kr Open Day(Oday)” as the press conference of new product for early-stage internet startups, which has been held around the big cities all over the country on a monthly basis.

36Kr has also built a platform for ”Seeking for funding” and “Seeking for talents”(To be released soon) for early internet startups, to provide more comprehensive service for Chinese entrepreneurs.

About Great Wall Club
The Great Wall Club (GWC) connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicomt, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference, the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Great Wall Club USA is located in heart of Silicon Valley.

About AngelHere

Angelhere is a social network for innovative start-ups and investors in China and U.S.. We help start-ups connect with the right investors, strategic and business partners in China.

March 7, 2012 Posted by | Great Wall Club | , | Leave a Comment

Great Wall Club will host a private executive dinne during GDC next weekr

Great Wall Club Inc (US):  After the big success of special “Monday Dinner” at Barcelona during World Mobile Congress 2012, Great Wall Club Inc (US) will host another executive/CEO dinner during the 26th iteration of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) on March 7th near Moscone Center, San Francisco.

This Dinner is featuring the Vice President for The9(NASDAQ: NCTY), Guoding (Chris) SHEN, GM of App Store Operation Center of China Telecom, Jiang WU, as well as select Silicon Valley mobile game leaders. The theme of this dinner is Status quo and future development trend of China’s mobile game industry & the international opportunities.

 Chirs Shen, Vice President, The9 Ltd

Chris Shen has served as The9‘s Vice President since January 2006 and now leads the New Business Unit and Public Relations Department at The9.

Mr. Shen joined The9 in May 2005 and has served as Senior Director of Marketing and Public Relations from August 2005 to December 2005 before his promotion to Vice President.

Prior to joining The9, he has served as Group Account Director and Account Director for several renowned advertising agencies in Shanghai and Taipei. In more than 10 years working in various advertising agencies, Mr. Shen has helped a lot of local and international brands in planning their sales and marketing initiatives.

Bringing the rich, extensive marketing experiences to The9, Mr. Shen led the team successfully completed brand planning, public relation activities and marketing campaigns for World of Warcraft, Soul of The Ultimate Nation, Granado Espada, EA SPORTS FIFA Online 2, World of Fighter, etc. Commencing in 2010, Mr. Shen has started to lead The9’s New Business Unit and Public Relations Department, helping The9 make a great progress in the business development of web-based games, Social Networking Service games, mobile games and other new business areas.

Mr. Shen received his bachelor’s degree in management science from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

 

 

Introduction of GWC “Monday Dinner” – The Executive Roundtable Dinners 

The Great Wall Club hosts monthly Monday Dinners in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tokyo, and Seoul. These dinners are closed-door, and serve as an intimate networking event for top mobile leaders to discuss the latest tech trends, develop ways of cooperating in the future, and build lasting personal relationships. Each of GWC’s Monday Dinners are invitation only and space is limited to 16.

About the Host

Great Wall Club Inc (US) is the new sister company of Great Wall Club in Beijing. The Great Wall Club connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicom, Microsoft, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland. GWC US is located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

March 7, 2012 Posted by | Great Wall Club | , , , | Leave a Comment

SVEntrepreneurs welcome the 2500th member

SVEntrepreneurs, the fastest growing mobile Entrepreneurs welcomed its 2500th member Shibi Sudhakaran who joined the community 11:07pm Feb 23th.

SVE, now the SV’s largest mobile entrepreneurs community.

 

February 24, 2012 Posted by | SV-Entrepreneurs | | Leave a Comment

Great Wall Club US is hiring. Multiple positions.

The Great Wall Club is a dynamic international network, focus on Mobile Internet industry, with a rapidly growing C-level member base. We have just started our business in the U.S. and are seeking for a passionate, tech loving well-rounded rockstar that can build the brand and drive sales of GWC products like the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), GWC membership, sponsorship, and monthly events, among our American target markets.

Please note that this is a ground-floor, roll-your-sleeves-up opportunity. You will have an opportunity to wear many hats and play a hands-on role.

1.   Event Marketing/Sales: Full time / Part time / Intern

Your Profile

You have good “people skills” and negotiation skills. You have excellent writing skills and In-depth understanding of social media platforms. Previous conference sales experience is strongly preferred as well as knowledge of international business-to-business conferences.

Your Role

You will take on the sales duties as part of a more general management role including marketing and operations as well. You’ll be responsible to promote GMIC as well as selling tickets to the general publics by using all the possible channels, like PR, events, newsletters, blogs, and Social Media (preferably Twitter / YouTube /LinkedIn). You’ll also be assist in managing partnership for the events.

2.    Business Development: Full time / Part time / Intern

Your Profile

You are a confident sales negotiator with an excellent communication skills and previous experience of working in a target driven event sales environment. You will be self-motivated, be comfortable with speaking with high-level international decision makers and have excellent writing and organizational skills.

Your Role

You will be contacting international business executives in Mobile Internet Industry. You will be selling CEO membership, corporate sponsorship, group tickets, and exhibition booth space to both new business and existing contacts. You will be e-mailing marketing material, cold-calling new contacts and following up on enquiries.

We also have a few volunteer opportunities open. To explore all kinds of opportunities with Great Wall Club, please apply Here

February 10, 2012 Posted by | Great Wall Club, Jobs | | Leave a Comment

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