October 22, 2011

Entrepreneurial event, Nov 9, STOCKHOLM, The 2011 Swedish Schumpeter Lecture - Embracing Failure: Creative Destruction and Its Consequences

  2011-10-19    
 
 
Pontus Braunerhjelm, Managing Director of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor at KTH, cordially invites you to the 2011 inaugurating Swedish Schumpeter Lecture:

“EMBRACING FAILURE: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES”

This is the first lecture in a planned annual series where world renowned scholars belonging to the Schumpeterian strand of economics will present their research.
William B. Gartner, Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University, USA
   
 
The 2011 Swedish Schumpeter Lecturer William B. Gartner, Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University, is a distinguished world-class scholar. Gartner has for the last 30 years been highly influential in entrepreneurship education and research and for this achievement received several awards. Gartner has published a large number of articles in top journals on new venture creation and entrepreneurial behavior and is not only a widely cited scholar; he is also influential as a person who engages in real-life entrepreneurship and education. In 2005, he was awarded the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for his studies on new venture creation and entrepreneurial behavior that combines the positivist and hermeneutic tradition.

When: 9 November 17.00 – 19.00
Where: Bryggarsalen, Norrtullsgatan 12 N, 113 27 Stockholm map
After the lecture we invite you to stay and mingle at a reception with refreshments
Interested? Register by email to: pernilla.heed at entreprenorskapsforum.se

Our venue, Hamburgerbryggeriet, was a beer brewery founded in 1869 by a German brewery master. In 1914 the present day brewery house was finished and it was the largest in Stockholm at that time. Hamburgerbryggeriet  was the brewery that invented, and started producing, the popular lager “pilsner”. The brewery eventually became part of Pripps and beer was made here until the 1970s. In 2010, Studiefrämjandet Stockholm took over and today the brewery is used for courses and study circles.
 
   
 
   
  Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), was born in present day Slovakia but started his academic career in Vienna. In 1911 Schumpeter became the youngest professor of economics in the history of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He presented heavily contested and novel ideas for his time, a time that was dominated by neo-classical economic theories, and was also the scholar that first brought the entrepreneur into the economic analysis.
The early Schumpeter identified the entrepreneur as the central driving force of a dynamic economy. The entrepreneur is a key factor in the ever present process of economic change and necessary renewal. According to Schumpeter, the entrepreneur created growth and innovation through the discovery of new possibilities and risk-taking. Most important for economic development was not growth in already existing products and services but innovation and transformation that permanently change the economic ecosystem. The new should replace the old. This tension, known as creative destruction, was a main focus in Schumpeter’s scholarship.
The Schumpeterian model is not based on equilibrium but on a constant destruction thereof through entrepreneurship and innovation. In this dynamic interplay between the old and the new, the innovative entrepreneur is the agent of change that ultimately drives economic growth. In his later work, Schumpeter attributed large firms a more important influence on the economy.
 
   
 
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  Swedish Economic Forum 2011 – En innovationsstrategi för Sverige  
Entreprenörskapsforum inbjuder till Swedish Economic Forum, den 18 november 2011 där svenska och utländska forskare, företagare, entreprenörer och finansiärer diskuterar hur en en ny svensk innovationsstrategi bör utformas. Vid konferensen lanseras Swedish Economic Forum Report. I årets rapport fördjupar sig forskarna i områdena: regleringar, lagar, skatter, företagsklimat och konkurrens.  
Håll utkik efter inbjudan till konferensen där forskare, riskkapitalister, entreprenörer och politiker diskuterar:
  • Vad kan Sverige lära av Israel när det gäller innovationspolitiken?
  • Hur kan regelverk och patent främja både innovation och spridning till stora användargrupper?
  • Hur kan skatter stimulera entreprenörskap och innovation?
  • Hur bidrar riskkapital och finansiering till innnovationsklimatet?
  • Hur bör ett nytt innovationspolitiskt ramverk utformas?
Tid: Fredagen den 18 november, kl. 08.30-12.00 med efterföljande lunch
Plats: Spårvagnshallarna, Birger Jarlsgatan 57 A, Stockholm
Moderator: Ulrika Stuart Hamilton, vice VD, Entreprenörskapsforum
 
   
     
 
 
   
 
 

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GWC is announcing mobiSights- News, Insights, Analysis on China’s Mobile and Internet Industry

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News, Insights, Analysis on China’s Mobile Internet Industry

Dear China watchers,


GWC is happy to announce mobiSights, a brand new blog covering the mobile and Internet industry in China.
mobiSights strives to deliver news and insights on the mobile internet industry, from China and the world, through CEO interviews, industry analysis, and event coverage.

If your company or startup has any news or announcements you would like to share with the world, please drop us a message: info@mobisights.com

Please share mobiSights to your colleagues and friends.  We appreciate your support! Regards,

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Read some of our latest mobiSights posts:

Insights: How To Distribute & Monetize Your App in China
For a developer entering the China market, there is a barrage of adaptations needed for localizing their app, and not to mention the necessity of keeping in mind the censorship issues in China. Mobile Operating Systems In China – Part 1
The sheer number of Chinese citizens is staggering, so it is fitting that the types of operating systems on their mobile phones be just as staggering. The following will highlight the most popular of those operating systems.  In China – Apple is hot, Android is everywhere, ”Tapas” is more than just something to eat, and China is hip enough to create an iOS/Android mashup and call it MIUI.

Insights into the Indian Mobile Internet Market
Following closely behind China’s population of 1.3 billion, India has a population of 1.2 Billion. A report by McKinsey Quarterly, “Can India lead the mobile-Internet revolution?” answers the question of where India stands in terms of the mobile Internet industry. mobiTalk #02: After the Bell – Lei Jun VS. Dave McClure
Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, and Dave McClure, Co-Founder of 500 Startups, discussed their experiences as investors in the high speed world of the mobile tech industry at GWC’s mobiTalk speaker series. The two men shared their insights on how they pick the companies they fund and what their opinion was of various aspects of the current Chinese tech market.

G+1 #17: Rovio Examines Angry Birds’ Success and Their Hopes for China
According to Nick Dorra, Animation producer for Rovio Entertainment, and Tianyi Pan, Marketing manager in China for Rovio Entertainment, the popularity of Angry Birds stems from a convergence of markets in the mobile gaming industry but mostly from the sheer amount of planning and energy that was invested in designing the game. Rovio designed this game to be a ‘hit’, they said. ElooMobile CEO Interview - Xu Guohong
Xu Guohong, CEO of ElooMobile, believes that the popularity of the iPhone mobile App Store indicates that they are headed in the right direction. ElooMobile is currently the only company that provides a full set of cross-platform tools based on Open Standards for Chinese developers.
 

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October 20, 2011

News from China accelerator Demo Day

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 01:28 AM PDT
A combination of technology entrepreneurship and oriental Chinese culture, the Chinaccelerator Demo Day held at Zheng Yi Ci Opera Theatre, was highly praised by guests whom included the Geeks on a Plane [lead by Dave McClure] and a huge pool of investors and tech-enthusiasts.
This season, Dalian-based accelerator had 9 start-ups, ranging from educational, social, motivational tools and even e-commerce.

The Companies On Show

eProf

Towards creating the ultimate teaching platform, eProf provides social learning experience through linking with like-minded people and synchronous real-time interaction unlike Youtube and Skype. Having implemented a virtual classroom feature with simple and intuitive UI design, it can host up to 30 students at any point in time and has since gathered an impressive amount of users within 12 hours of going live. What’s more, Trevor, the co-founder of eProf, expects educators to earn up to $300 per class.  So, teachers, what are you waiting for?!
Asking for USD 400K in investments, eProf plans to upgrade the site to HTML5 and to  scale to develop a mobile client that enable teachers to teach and students to learn, anytime and anywhere.

LuRenJia (路人甲)

The social network service is carved to help single Chinese students to make new friends through common interest, linking them up using location-based services and allows social-sharing via all major social-platform. Interesting statistics presented showed that there is approximately 30 million college students in China and 21 million of them are still single despite wanting to get attached. Having used to be a college student himself, it is no wonder why the founder came up with such an interesting idea targeted at Chinese students who are still single.
LuRenJia intends to run advertisements, allow subscription to premium service and implement virtual currency in order to monetize the platform. Looking for USD 80K in investments, I guess is the birth of the ultimate stalking service in China.

Kwestr

A rather well organized pitch by Kwestr founder, Frank Yu, plans to bring happiness and joy to life by achieving our goals step by step through listings and them striking them off one by one. Seeing the usefulness of lists, Kwestr takes them to the next level by integrating them with social-platforms, gamifying them and linking them to the real world. Also to mention, Kwestr can be seen as a corporate tool for planning and execution of tasks, a step up from the whiteboard and markers that most companies are using.
This start-up plans to monetize this service through providing premium services, service licensing to corporate companies and taking a cut from merchants that they work with [that users can purchase items from, as part of their task]. It has already gathered USD 130K in seed funding and is aiming for USD 350K for accumulating its first 100K of users.

Piktochart

Online tool for creating presentations and infographs, Piktochart implemented simple drag-and-drop features to allow users to create interactive and informative charts without the need of Photoshop skills. Taking infographics to the next level, short descriptions of the individual drawings and graphs can be seen when the cursor roll-over, making it more interactive and saves the time of us, trying to digest and think exactly what the picture is saying. With the intention to make these charts a powerful analytics tool, Piktograph will be implementing analytical features like keeping track of which segment of the charts did users click the most, this is definition something that marketers are missing.
Monetizing this service, the start-up is offering subscription service as well as marketplace for crowdsourced charts that they take a cut from. For USD 100K in investments, they implementing new themes and visuals for the charts, and gathering 2000 users.

Order With Me

A C2C (nope, not Copy-2-China) platform, Order With Me plans on taking Online Trade 2.0 that do away with middlemen, linking factories in China with retailer abroad, saving on the expenses needed to bring goods for sales overseas, thus widening the profit margin. Though their specialized team, the site filters tons and tons of search results, presenting to users only quality and trusted suppliers and will even help to source for the desired items if not found. Now, that is a dream come true to many trustworthy suppliers in China and lots more retailers overseas.
Requesting for a million in this round of investment, the start-up will be bridge for China manufacturing industry and overseas market, a hurdle that has been present for the past decades.

Super Class

As the name suggests, the startup is working on innovation in education by making them cheaper and more effective. Seeing the problem that educational resources are too expensive in China where some families have to spend their life-savings to buy their children a future, Super Class plans to offer courses at 1000 RMB for 3 years, something worth raising our eyebrows. An effort in making the lessons more effective, the start-up uses short clips from movies, sounds and emulators to impart knowledge at a greater depth.
More like a social enterprise, investments received will be used on optimizing their web solution and on accumulating educational materials that will benefit millions of children struggling to receive proper education in China.

NextGoals

The only start-up with a hardware prototype, NextGoals helps users to stay motivated and achieve goals. Integrated with an online platform that allows goal-setting, tracking of activities and even collaborating with friends to achieve as a team, this start-up helps users to pursuit a healthy lifestyle. The competitor analysis presented was somewhat convincing [many would have thought of Nike+ which was not included] and did have an edge over its competitors in terms of the features provided.
The start-up will monetize by providing premium services and taking a 35% cut from each wristband sold. Requesting for USD 250K to scale and mass produce, it aims to be the solution for “self-tracking, socially infused”.

iBragu

Gambling is a both a hobby and an addiction deep down in every human. iBragu is a social betting game platform that allows you to bet on anything, anywhere and anytime! Research show that gambling is worth 5-6 billion USD in U.S. alone, no wonder iBragu sees a potential in gambling. Positioning gambling as fun and positive, the platform allows users to set the bets like a dare or a treat [money is not an option as it is illegal to bet real money in China]. They even go in-depth to see why money-free bets are useless and found out that people simply forget about them, therefore, the team implemented notifications to assure that users will be able to keep track of the bets.
Monetizing through collaborating with brands so that users can set the prize to be from a specific brand [like Budweiser instead of Beer], the start-up requested USD 1 million to expand to the Smart TV, other platforms and to achieve 1 million users.

Made to Fit Me

An “innovative new online clothes shopping experience for women”, the site serves as the solution for women in finding the dresses that fit them both on and offline. Providing detailed tutorials, the site allows users to obtain their measurements, customizing various aspects of the dress and finally producing the unique dress made especially for the user. On intimate service, Made to Fit Me even ships out free cloth sample and measuring tapes to their mailing lists, somewhat a confident booster for potential consumers.
Seeing the fact that it is almost impossible to mass produce customized dressed, investments made will be used on scaling the business and likely to rework the production line as it is almost impossible to mass produce customized dressed in China.

The Pieces Fall in Place

Having visited Chinaccelerator before the start of this season’s program, this was definitely much better than anything I expected. The start-ups were great, the pitching was good and, like seeing pieces fall into place, it formed a wonderful scene of entrepreneurship in China. It showed a promising future of entrepreneurship in this land of opportunities.
The guy who put all this together, Cyril Ebersweiler.
For now, may all the start-ups ‘live long and prosper’ while we wait impatiently for next year’s Demo Day!

About the Author

Dennis Koh - He is on the Sales Team at Symbio and the President of Young Entrepreneurs Association of NUS (YEAN). An Electrical Engineering major in National University of Singapore (NUS) and Technopreneurship minor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Always on a lookout for innovators, aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups. Contact him at dennis.koh[at]gmail[dot]com.
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October 18, 2011

Handset and Gadget Innovation Review, Mountain View, CA, Oct 25

Telecom Council of Silicon Valley presents: Handset and Gadget Innovation Review

DATE/TIME: Tue, Oct 25, 8:30am-2:00pm LOCATION: Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida Street, Mountain View

COST: $200 non-member / free to members. They are handsets, gadgets, phones, tablets and a bunch of other new device categories, but they all represent the place where the wireless industry touches its customer. As gadgets become more powerful consumers’ expectations rise.

We leave the big device announcements to CES, and instead focus on innovations inside the handset that will drive the next generation devices so the network operators and entrepreneurs can plan and contribute. We hope to see:
*The next breed of sensors
*Hardware improvements for screens, batteries, and cameras
*Innovation in radios, memory, and storage
*New capabilities in chipsets
Come to this meeting to learn what’s next inside mobile devices. MORE INFO:
Website: http://telecomcouncil.cvent.com/event/handsets2011
Email: council at telecomcouncil.com 
Phone: 408-834-7933 
Contact: Liz Kerton

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October 15, 2011

Join Top IT/ Mobile internet industry leader’s in Asia’s elite Conference GMIC2012, April 25-26, Beijing

Check out the early bird special for the first 100 registrations, get a new Android phone.Dear Thomas LIDFORSS ,


We are happy to inform you that our past Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) was a great success, so I just wanted to let you and your colleagues know that GMIC 2012 will be hosted by us in Beijing, China.


Speaking positions, sponsorships, and partnerships are some of the ways that we would like to discuss with you and your colleagues about getting involved.  If you are interested, please let me know and we can discuss how best to get your company involved. 


As you know GWC is the holder of biggest Global mobile internet conference GMIC in Asia. For next year Gmic2012, we have started with a great promotion of 20% discount on all sponsorship and as a result, Chinese  biggest giant companies like Tencent, Sina, Netdragon have already bought our top sponsorship for 3 years. From Japan:  Gree, Dena have bought our top sponsorship for 3 years.  Additionally makers of i-phone games Angry bird { Rovio} and Fruit Ninja { Halfbrick Studios} will hopefully be joining us for GMIC2012 , as top sponsor for one year.


 We had over 3200 people attended the two day conference this past April, and GMIC 2012 is looking to increase on last year’s success by attract ing over 5000 top level mobile Internet executives, developers, and influencers.  In addition we saw a significant increase in media coverage this past April with 253 media including 53 members of the international press These included such names as The Economist, Forbes, Reuters, the Financial Times, CNN, and IDG News Service.


On GMIC2012 tickets we have a great promotion of 40+% discount+ New Andriod phone Xioa mi {Limited to first 100 registration}

 You can find the brochure for GMIC 2012 at  for your perusal.  

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ELIA Networking Days Athens (10-12 November) - Early-Bird Extension


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Early registration extended until Monday, 17 October


  10-12 November
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Save up to 25% on ND Athens registration

To accommodate those still seeking permission to come to Athens, the early registration period has been extended until the end of Monday, the 17th of October.
Register for ND Athens
This year’s program is rich and interesting as ever and it would be a shame to lose it! This may not be the best period for Greece, but please note that the conference and all social events will take place in first-rate locations, where the service is guaranteed.

Accommodations

ELIA has blocked off rooms for the event participant for the nights of the 9th-12th of November 2011 in Electra Palace Hotel, Electra Hotel and Central Hotel. Click on this link for additional information.
Learn more about the program, workshop, sessions, speakers, venue and more at http://www.networking-days.org
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Join Enea at ARM TechCon 2011 Conference, Oct 25-27, Santa Clara, CA

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Visit us at Booth #315 to meet with our Enea experts, learn more about our products, view live demos and to see what solutions we can offer you!

Expo Hall Hours:
Wednesday, Oct. 26 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Thursday, Oct. 27 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Exhibit Passes are FREE! These passes provide access to the ARM TechCon 2011 Exhibit Floor, Plus Keynotes, Industry Addresses, Sponsored Technical Sessions, Teardowns and Opening Night Reception.

Attend the sponsored training session with speaker Conny Öhult (Product Marketing RTOS & Tools) October 26th Wednesday 2:20- 3:20 PM | Location C
ARM-Based Processors in Networking:Runtime Software for Heterogeneous Multi-core

To achieve the highest level of system integration and performance, next generation systems for wireless basestations, small cells, gateways and many other networking applications will be built using a heterogeneous combination of ARM processors, DSPs and hardware accelerators. Developers adopting these devices will face a new level of complexity on the software level. In this presentation we will look into what the developer will need to overcome the performance, scalability and ease-of-use issues when adopting these new ARM-based devices. Enea’s platform for heterogeneous SoC include Linux, RTOS, Hypervisor, Interprocess Communication technology and the middleware and development tools needed to tie the entire software platform together, all designed to enable maximum design flexibility, late system partitioning, application transparency and seamless development and debug experience.
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First 1500 to register will get a Nexus 4G phone to Sprint Open Solutions Conference, Nov 2-4, Santa Clara, CA

Sprint Open Solutions Conference
Nov. 2 – 4, 2011
Santa Clara, CA.
Throughout the three-day conference, partners, enterprise customers and developers will learn about:
- Sprint’s open enablement strategy
- creating applications for 4G and 3D
- Sprint’s machine-to-machine (M2M) ecosystem
- current Sprint tools and capabilities across devices, networks and platform
- business applications and devices
- mobile security, managed mobility etc.

Sprint and Google will also be leading several sessions on NFC and mobile commerce.
Plus, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse will give the evening keynote address on November 3.
The conference will include 4G, M2M, and NFC demonstration areas. A preliminary agenda for the Open Solutions Conference is now posted on the Sprint Developer website.

Cost: $350 
Device give away: Samsung Nexus S 4G (NFC-enabled) with 1 month free of service for the first 1,500 registered attendees.

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October 1, 2011

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