Thursday, August 23, 2012

CINA eNews

CINA : A Community for Creative People           

 08-23-2012

Headlines

 - Walking & Hiking 4:00pm on Saturday August 25. RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/CINA_Community/events/77970682/

 - CINA 2012 Winter Conference on November 9.


Startup 101: Founding Team Strategy, Equity Planning and Market Positioning

Date/Time

 Wednesday, August 29, 2012; 6:30pm - 9:00pm

 6:00pm - 6:30pm Registration and Social Networking

 6:30pm - 8:30pm Interactive Presentation

 8:30pm - 9:00pm Social Networking

Speakers

 

 Thomas Hong, CEO of Board of CEOs (BoC)
 Steve Tsai, Partner of Board of CEOs and President of the IPO Group
 

Venue

 

 Fenwick & West, LLP.

 801 California St, Mountain View, CA

Registration

 

 Click here to register online.

 

Highlight

In this special event, we are honored to have two successful entrepreneurs and executives to talk about how to build good foundation for your startup.


Topic 1: Startup Issues and Strategies

Many first-time entrepreneurs form startups with structural flaws that are very difficult to fix as the company grows. The purpose of this event is to explore some of the key issues entrepreneurs need to understand so that the company will be built on a good foundation that fosters addition of talented people, attract investors and support successful growth. Some of major area that will be discussed by the panel:

1. Co-Founders: what makes for a good winning team
2. Ownership strategy that will support talent acquisition and funding
3. Key successful traits of an entrepreneur
4. How to create customers: the importance of integrated marketing and sales system

Topic 2: The Importance of Integrated Online and Offline Sales and Marketing in the Mobile Space

Peter Drucker said the purpose of a business is to create customers. Whether your company in B2B, B2C, or B2B2C space, you need to understand how to get customers and generate revenue and profit. While marketing and sales have evolved with the advent of Web, search, social, mobile, and big data, the fundamentals of sales and marketing do not change. Join Steve Tsai, President of The IPO Group, for a top level view of the state-of-the-art marketing and sales system and the inner workings of integrating online and offline marketing, sales, and business development activities that are critical to any hi-tech company.

About Speakers

Thomas Hong is CEO of Board of CEOs (BoC)

BoC is a members-only organization in Silicon Valley. Its participants includes CEOs, angels, VCs, Investment Bankers, and corporate executives. Thomas previously held various engineering management positions at IBM, Memorex, Apple, National Semiconductors & Intersil. As serial entrepreneur, he was Principal Founder/CEO of 4 computer peripheral and networking products companies. He raised funding from Angel investors, VCs and corporate investors. He managed one company from startup to $23 million revenue and $1 million profit in the second year. He has recruited domestic and international distributors in most major countries and has sold 12 technology licenses to private and public companies. During the last 10 years, Thomas has been the Founder of CEONetworking which transformed to the Board of CEOs. He facilitates these organizations providing advice/consulting to hundreds of hi-tech CEOs in Silicon Valley. He has also been on the Advisory Board of several hi-tech startups.

Steve Tsai, Partner of Board of CEOs and President of the IPO Group

Steve is a business executive and entrepreneur with diverse experiences. He held executive positions at Sun and Unisys in research, development, and marketing. He had three start-ups, one went IPO in 4 years and the other one was acquired in 3 years. As a partner at Board of CEOs, Steve has advised more than 100 companies on funding, growth, and M&A. As the president of The IPO Group, Steve helps client companies win market leadership by integrating the cutting edge online and offline sales and marketing concepts and practices. Notable successes include NetScaler acquired by Citrix in 2005 for $325M and NeoAccel acquired by VMware in 2011 where he was the VP of business development and ran China operations. Steve was a board member of the Internal Angel Investors, a venture partner at a global VC firm, and on the advisory boards of several startup companies.


CINA Co-Host Event

2012 High-Tech Taiwan Investment and Talent Recruiting

Date/Time

 Saturday, September 8, 2012; 9:30am - 6:00pm 

Venue

 

 Santa Clara Convention Center
 5001 Great America Pkwy., Santa Clara, CA 95054

Registration

 

 Free. Send email to terri.syu@taiwantradesf.org for detail information

 

Highlight

2012 High-Tech Investment and Talent Recruiting Fair,  a Taiwan recruitment delegation will come to Silicon Valley on Sep. 8th, to hold a One-On-One match-making job fair for overseas talents.  The mission has 20 recruiting companies, providing many job openings.

For One-On-One matching interview, please register at http://hirecruit.nat.gov.tw/SFO

For more information please visit website: http://sf.taiwantrade.com.tw/event

Participants will have a chance to enter a raffle for a Google Nexus 7.

We are looking for volunteers to help at the event. Lunch is served. Send email to rsvp@cina.org if you would like to help out.


Partner Events

Forum: SIPA

What: Education and Technology

Panel Moderator: Camile Smith: President, Work in Progress Coaching

Panelist:
Dr. Preetha Ram Cofounder and Chief Academic Officer, Open Study, Assoc. Dean Emory
Avinash Patil : Worldwide Program Manager for PPS Attach Services, HP
Dr. Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google
Claire Schneeberger, Founder & CEO, Monarch Media

When: August 23, 2012; 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Where: Oak Room, Building 48, Cupertino HP Cupertino Campus (click here for map)
             19483 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA

Registration: Free for members and $15.00 for non-members. Click here to register


Forum: AlwaysOn

What: OnHollywood

When: October 2-3, 2012

Where: Museum of Flying, 3100 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, California 90405.

OnHollywood 2012 Event Page: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=44045&

CINA Member 50% off DISCOUNT CODE : AO - CINA 

CINA is a grassroot professional organization in Silicon Valley provides its 20,000 members high-quality seminars, workshops, mentor programs, annual conferences, and networking events. CINA brings together a diverse group of professionals, consisting not only of people of Chinese descent, but also of people from diverse ethnicities and backgrounds. Our partners, alliances and local communities reach out 100,000+ people. Its goal is to provide a forum facilitating engineers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, angel investors and venture capitalists to share innovative ideas, and connect with opportunities.

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