Partner AlwaysOn Event Sponsored by CINA
What: OnMobile 2012
When: June 12-13th, 2012
Where:
Fox Theatre and Club Fox, 2223 Broadway Street Redwood City,
CA 94063!
Registration: CINA Members get 50% discount ($1000 off) http://www.aonetwork.com/cart/add/p69196?destination=cart
Website: http://aonetwork.com/AOEvents/OnMobile/OnMobile-2012
Highlight
OnMobile 2012 is where the top venture capital-backed mobile companies disrupting the consumer and enterprise worlds join forces with the big players pioneering the new mobile device and operating system platforms. This two day executive event features high-level debates on what's hot in the emerging mobile market and how these innovations are disrupting how companies and consumers work, play, advertise, and connect. OnMobile also showcases the top entrepreneurial CEOs who are driving mobile innovation.
Come and mingle with 100 speakers
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
CINA Entrepreneur Thought Leader Mentor Program on May 29
Speakers:
Tim Wilson, Managing Director, Artiman Ventures;
David Koehn, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels.
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Shawn Douglass, Managing Director, EMC VenturesModerator: John Liu, Of Counsel, Fenwick & West, LLP
When: May 29, 6:00pm - 8:45pm
Program: 6:00pm - 6:30pm Registration and Networking
6:30pm - 7:15pm Presentation
7:15pm - 8:00pm Panel Discussion
8:00pm - 8:45pm Investor/Entrepreneur Round Table Mentor
Where: Fenwick & West, LLP, 801 California Street, Moutain View, CA
Website: www.cina.org
Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3179121839
Highlight
In today's high-tech venture environment, there are lots of New Challenges that the startups are facing. By having the killer app or compelling business plan is not enough.
In this special event, we invited several seasoned investors who will share us their vision and compelling stories.
Some of the topics but not limited:
- What are the common mistakes for a new startup?
- What it takes to successfuly build company from ground up?
- What are the most important elements that strike investors decision to fund the company?
- How to Recruit All- Stars?
- How to grow your company into a multi-million dollar company?
- Where Investors are investing?
Come and hear from the industry thought leaders.
About Speakers:
Tim Wilson, Managing Director, Artiman Ventures
Between 2001 and 2011, Tim was a General Partner at Partech International. He continues to represent Partech and serves on the boards of Invensense (NYSE:INVN), Prysm, Five9s, LedEngin, Array Converter, and Acco Semiconductor. Previous investments include Teknovus (Broadcom) and Ario Data (Xyratek).
Between 1997 and 2001, Tim was the Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Island (NASDAQ: ISLD) a Partech portfolio company. The company was acquired in 2001 for $350M. Prior to Digital Island, Tim was a General Manager at Lucent Technology where he led the international voice communications product management team (now Avaya) with P&L for product lines generating over $2B in annual sales. Before Lucent, Tim held a variety of senior management positions within AT&T (North America and Australia) and AT&T Bell Labs from 1983-1995.
Tim graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College receiving his undergraduate degree in Physics. He received his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.
David Kohen, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels.
David Koehn, Board Members, Sand Hill Angels
David has over 15 years experience focused on entrepreneurship and innovation. David has founded several start-ups including one focused on ecotourism and another focused on enterprise mobility. David has also assisted many start-ups in their growth. David has helped start-ups in many ways from assuming the CEO role and closing a series C, to transforming their business models and market approaches, to acting as a senior advisor.
David has worked for AvantGo, Tailwind (Founder), DKI (Principal), & Saba. In all of his roles across all of the companies he has worked for David has focused on building net new products, solutions and services. David pioneered mLearning at AvantGo. At Tailwind David delivered a product for consuming enterprise online learning and applications while offline. At DKI david helped dozens of clients conceptualize, productize, and take to market a wide range of media, social, unified communications, and games using the cloud, Facebook and mobile as the platform.
David received his Bachelors Degree from Carnegie Mellon, an MFA from the University of Florida, an M.Ed (TFA Cert) from the University of Alaska and is pursuing his MBA through Johns Hopkins.
David looks to invest in start-ups focused on disrupting inefficient markets. He targets, in particular, start ups focused on mid-market social enterprise, location-based solutions for small business, and real-time analytics/intelligence businesses
Bill
Reichert - Managing Director, Garage
Technology Ventures
Bill
Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating
executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage
information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards
of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage,
Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology
startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems.
Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers
Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College
and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a
Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley
Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small
Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations in New York.
Shawn Douglass, Managing Director, EMC Ventures.
Shawn runs the Advanced Tech Ventures group for EMC in the CTO Office. Been in the valley for a while and love technology and helping to building new ventures. Responsible for making investments in Big Data/Analytics, Cloud, Virtualization, Security & Information mgt startups. He had been the founder of the high-tech startup.
About CINA
Chinese Information and Networking Association (CINA) is a
leading non-profit organization established in 1992, formed by a group of
Chinese professionals from the network computing industry. Today, with more
than 20,000+ members, CINA is one of the most active and fastest growing
professional associations in Silicon Valley . CINA focuses its energy on
performing member services that are consistent with our mission by assembling a
talented and experienced board, exceeding members' expectations by continually
providing quality speakers and seminars.
CINA brings together a diverse group of professionals consisting not only Chinese but also people from different ethnicities and backgrounds. Our goal is to provide a forum facilitating engineers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives (CEOs, CTOs, VPs, directors and managers), angel investor and venture capitalists to share innovative ideas, and connect with opportunities.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Blogging for Businesses and Marketers Workshop
Date / Time: March 28 2012 - 06:00pm to 09:30pm
Register: Space is limited. Register online early to reserve your ticket
Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP.
801 California Street
Mountain View, CA
Highlight
Social media and the internet has dramatically changed how businesses and organizations market themselves. No longer is broadcasting your message an effective way to attract customers. The social web is driven by content and conversations. Businesses are having to become content publishers and trusted resources. Although social networks like Facebook and Twitter garner much of the attention in the marketing world, your blog is a powerful hub that ties your online social presences together.
Attend this hands on evening workshop presented by Adam Helweh, CEO of Secret Sushi Creative, to understand the role blogging plays in your marketing & communications efforts. Additional emphasis will be placed on how to effectively use your time and resources to maximize your blogging efforts in a business context
Overview of what you will learn:
• How blogging fits into your existing marketing efforts
• Picking the perfect blogging platform for your needs
• Set up a blog and optimize it for social media and SEO
• Blogging strategies and best practices for b2b and b2c businesses
• How to promote your blog and generate traffic
• Power tips to generate blog post ideas and create an editorial calendar
• How to customize your blog with original templates ( using wordpress as an example)
Some of the benefits of blogging:
• Increases your online exposure
• Benefits of solo bloggers versus teams
• It's closely connected with your existing web site
• Attract inbound traffic from search engines and social networks
• It acts as a social hub for your existing web site and social networks
• Highly brand-able environment where you can control the experience
• Helps position you as a trusted resource or subject matter expert to your audience
• It's a multimedia platform that supports audio, video, images as well as text.
This event is perfect for:
• Marketing professionals
• Business owners
• Aspiring Social Media Professionals
• Digital Marketing Professionals
• Nonprofits
• Entrepreneurs
Please join this hands-on workshop and learn about blogging from an industry expert. Similar workshops have been priced at as much as $1000. Seating is limited.
About the instructor
Adam is an digital marketer, social media consultant, technologist and the CEO of Secret Sushi Creative a digital marketing and social media company. At Secret Sushi he has worked with such companies as Edelman, Broadcom, Stanford Federal Credit Union, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group as well as a many small and medium sized businesses.
Adam is also a regular author on the top ranked digital marketing blog SocialMediaExplorer.com, the social media manager for TEDxSanJoseCA, and co-host of the newly launched "SoLoMo Show" [Link to: http://solomoshow.com/] podcast discussing the intersection of social, local and mobile marketing.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Join this Exciting Soccer Game while Celebrating the Year of the Dragon
CINA is the official non-profit organization for the opening
match of this Soccer Game This
would be a great opportunity for our members to get involved in the local
community.
When: March 10th, 7:30pm
Where: Buck Shaw Stadium, Santa Clara Univessoty
What: Soccer Game -- Earthquakes vs. New England Revolution
- Live traditional art performance during intermission,
- Children can join the Pre-play march.
Ticket Price: $20 ( free for children 2 and under )
Order by: Feb. 16
Come meet your friends and a fun
way to mingle with Entrepreneurs, partners, potential clients, employees
and mentors.
Please join this exciting soccer game to celebrate the Chinese heritage in the Year of the Dragon.
When: March 10th, 7:30pm
Where: Buck Shaw Stadium, Santa Clara Univessoty
What: Soccer Game -- Earthquakes vs. New England Revolution
- Live traditional art performance during intermission,
- Children can join the Pre-play march.
Ticket Price: $20 ( free for children 2 and under )
Order by: Feb. 16
Mail Check Payable to CINA to 142 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas CA 95035
Include following information:
Name,
Email
Phone Number
Mailing address
Number of Tickets
Monday, January 30, 2012
Placeme enables endless possibilities for many Mobile Applications
Placeme is a very useful tool to many mobile applications. Individuals can use it to track their goals. Parents can use it to track their children's traveling routes. Businesses such as fleet managements can use it to track their cargos and goods. Retails can use it to improve their CRM. Companies can use it to promote their new products. Or the field application engineers can use it to trace their services. Hospitals, schools, ... Etc.
Placeme provides the cool infrastructure which enables endless possibilities to many mobile applications. Check here for detail information about how to use the APIs www.placemeapp.com
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
CINA Road To Successful Entrepreneurship: From Zero to One Million
走向创业成功之道:从零到一百万
主讲嘉宾：李珩先生，光元控股有限公司的创始人及总裁, 也是成功投资家。
时间：2011年8月31日6:00pm – 8:30pm
地点：浦东新区博云路2号浦软大厦10楼第六会议室 （地铁2号线金科路站下）
名额有限，请早报名： info@winyen.com； 并写上姓名，单位，职务。8/24之前报名免费。之后报名收费100元人民币。
关于研讨会
在今天的高科技创业环境, 有很多早期创业公司都面临着新的挑战。仅仅有杀手级应用或有吸引力的商业计划书是不够的。
在这个特殊的场合, 我们邀请了成功的创业领袖家，来与我们分享他们的远见和智慧。
请来听取他的引人入胜的故事:
- 如何“招聘”伟大的投资者？
- 什么是需要得到风险投资基金，以及为什么？
- 什么是最重要的元素，打击投资者的决策，基金公司？
- 为什么他们选择了对方，为什么这是一个很好的合作伙伴关系的风险？
- 融资后，未来的挑战是什么？
- 如何增加您的公司数百万美元的公司？
- 如何聘请全明星员工？较快聘请他们或较慢？
- 什么时间是花钱去推销你的产品？
请不要错过倾听成功企业家和投资者的教导.
议程
6:00pm - 6:30pm 注册与交流
6:30pm - 6:35pm 浦软介绍 – 肖文彬，浦软总经理
6:35pm - 6:40pm CINA介绍 – 邢苏星, CINA 主席
6:40pm - 6:45pm 嘉宾介绍 – 胥国栋，成功创业企业家
6:45pm - 7:30pm嘉宾演讲 - 李珩先生
7:30pm - 8:00pm座谈会
8:00pm - 8:30pm 交流
主讲嘉宾简历
李珩先生自从2009年起，是光元控股有限公司的创始人也是总裁。光元是专事LED产业链整合的投资控股企业，其子公司群在亚洲各地从事LED产品研发，系统整合，照明能源管理。同时，李珩是美国Grynberg 石油公司亚洲区负责人。
李先出生于台湾，祖籍江苏溱潼，祖父李桂东与荣毅仁之父荣德生合伙创业，有长远家族历史， 并是家族资产管理机构－李六箴堂控股公司(LJT Lee Holdings Co., Ltd.) 负责人。他初中就随台湾外交官父亲驻地美国华府，毕业于美国Rice 大学建筑系，是New York University Leonard Stern商学院硕士。现为Rice大学中国校友会会长。
现时，李先生也是香港上市公司真明丽控股有限公司董事局顾问；国际私募资金Silver Lake Asia Limited 顾问；美国私人投资集团Trafalgar Holdings亚洲合伙人。之前，2006-2009, 李珩是美国富兰克林基金集团，吉富中国投资管理股份有限公司（Tano China Capital Management Inc. )私募资金中国地区执行总裁 。在吉富期间，李珩在2007年成功集资创立中国光伏能源有限公司（China Solar Power (Holdings) Ltd.）生产薄膜太阳能光伏电池及相关产业。
1999－2002之间以常务董事身份投资参予美国AmericomUSA公司和DoubleClick公司之创立和上市。李珩是亚洲地区资深投资银行家。84－91年代是摩根史坦利(Morgan Stanley) 亚洲执行董事，驻地纽约和香港, 创立摩根亚洲TMT (Technology Media & Telecommunications) 投资银行业务；1992年创立Gateway Communication Ltd.电信企业和Strait Ventures Olympic Ltd. (SVO) 投资银行。SVO在1997年与台湾远东集团，协力赢得2张无线通信运营执照，创立远传电信股份有限公司，李珩以执行董事身份扶植并完成其系统网路建设，3百万客户群建立和上市 。
李先生年少时家境清寒，他初中就随台湾外交官父亲驻地美国华府，毕业于美国Rice 大学建筑系（现为Rice大学中国校友会会长），又半工半读New York University Leonard Stern获得商学院硕士。在投行服务七年后决定白手创业，现今以资源广阔，结构创新，灵活应用财务工具著称于投资银行业，并兼具创业家成功经验。他与大多数投资银行，卷商，专业投资机构，私募基金，创投基金保持有经常的，密切的联系和互信。
CINA简介
CINA的全称译成中文为“中华资讯网络协会”（Chinese Information and Networking Association）。CINA是美国加州硅谷华人计算机网络专业人员为主的非盈利专业协会。时至今日CINA已成长为美国加州高科技领域内屈指可数，目前拥有超过二万多名会员。CINA针对其会员及其他高科技专业人员的需求，每年组织多次高质量的各类研讨会、论坛、讲座及专业训练营，邀请各领域内知名的或有丰富经验的专家和顾问进行演讲、主持和指导。CINA组织的活动受到了其成员及其他各界人士的高度好评和欢迎。
CINA致力于为其具有不同专业背景的成员提供一个有效的平台。在此平台上，工程师和专业人员，创业者和企业家，公司机构各类管理人员，天使投资人，风险或创投基金等都可交流创新信息，共享科技和商业机会。www.cina.org
主讲嘉宾：李珩先生，光元控股有限公司的创始人及总裁, 也是成功投资家。
时间：2011年8月31日6:00pm – 8:30pm
地点：浦东新区博云路2号浦软大厦10楼第六会议室 （地铁2号线金科路站下）
名额有限，请早报名： info@winyen.com； 并写上姓名，单位，职务。8/24之前报名免费。之后报名收费100元人民币。
关于研讨会
在今天的高科技创业环境, 有很多早期创业公司都面临着新的挑战。仅仅有杀手级应用或有吸引力的商业计划书是不够的。
在这个特殊的场合, 我们邀请了成功的创业领袖家，来与我们分享他们的远见和智慧。
请来听取他的引人入胜的故事:
- 如何“招聘”伟大的投资者？
- 什么是需要得到风险投资基金，以及为什么？
- 什么是最重要的元素，打击投资者的决策，基金公司？
- 为什么他们选择了对方，为什么这是一个很好的合作伙伴关系的风险？
- 融资后，未来的挑战是什么？
- 如何增加您的公司数百万美元的公司？
- 如何聘请全明星员工？较快聘请他们或较慢？
- 什么时间是花钱去推销你的产品？
请不要错过倾听成功企业家和投资者的教导.
议程
6:00pm - 6:30pm 注册与交流
6:30pm - 6:35pm 浦软介绍 – 肖文彬，浦软总经理
6:35pm - 6:40pm CINA介绍 – 邢苏星, CINA 主席
6:40pm - 6:45pm 嘉宾介绍 – 胥国栋，成功创业企业家
6:45pm - 7:30pm嘉宾演讲 - 李珩先生
7:30pm - 8:00pm座谈会
8:00pm - 8:30pm 交流
主讲嘉宾简历
李珩先生自从2009年起，是光元控股有限公司的创始人也是总裁。光元是专事LED产业链整合的投资控股企业，其子公司群在亚洲各地从事LED产品研发，系统整合，照明能源管理。同时，李珩是美国Grynberg 石油公司亚洲区负责人。
李先出生于台湾，祖籍江苏溱潼，祖父李桂东与荣毅仁之父荣德生合伙创业，有长远家族历史， 并是家族资产管理机构－李六箴堂控股公司(LJT Lee Holdings Co., Ltd.) 负责人。他初中就随台湾外交官父亲驻地美国华府，毕业于美国Rice 大学建筑系，是New York University Leonard Stern商学院硕士。现为Rice大学中国校友会会长。
现时，李先生也是香港上市公司真明丽控股有限公司董事局顾问；国际私募资金Silver Lake Asia Limited 顾问；美国私人投资集团Trafalgar Holdings亚洲合伙人。之前，2006-2009, 李珩是美国富兰克林基金集团，吉富中国投资管理股份有限公司（Tano China Capital Management Inc. )私募资金中国地区执行总裁 。在吉富期间，李珩在2007年成功集资创立中国光伏能源有限公司（China Solar Power (Holdings) Ltd.）生产薄膜太阳能光伏电池及相关产业。
1999－2002之间以常务董事身份投资参予美国AmericomUSA公司和DoubleClick公司之创立和上市。李珩是亚洲地区资深投资银行家。84－91年代是摩根史坦利(Morgan Stanley) 亚洲执行董事，驻地纽约和香港, 创立摩根亚洲TMT (Technology Media & Telecommunications) 投资银行业务；1992年创立Gateway Communication Ltd.电信企业和Strait Ventures Olympic Ltd. (SVO) 投资银行。SVO在1997年与台湾远东集团，协力赢得2张无线通信运营执照，创立远传电信股份有限公司，李珩以执行董事身份扶植并完成其系统网路建设，3百万客户群建立和上市 。
李先生年少时家境清寒，他初中就随台湾外交官父亲驻地美国华府，毕业于美国Rice 大学建筑系（现为Rice大学中国校友会会长），又半工半读New York University Leonard Stern获得商学院硕士。在投行服务七年后决定白手创业，现今以资源广阔，结构创新，灵活应用财务工具著称于投资银行业，并兼具创业家成功经验。他与大多数投资银行，卷商，专业投资机构，私募基金，创投基金保持有经常的，密切的联系和互信。
CINA简介
CINA的全称译成中文为“中华资讯网络协会”（Chinese Information and Networking Association）。CINA是美国加州硅谷华人计算机网络专业人员为主的非盈利专业协会。时至今日CINA已成长为美国加州高科技领域内屈指可数，目前拥有超过二万多名会员。CINA针对其会员及其他高科技专业人员的需求，每年组织多次高质量的各类研讨会、论坛、讲座及专业训练营，邀请各领域内知名的或有丰富经验的专家和顾问进行演讲、主持和指导。CINA组织的活动受到了其成员及其他各界人士的高度好评和欢迎。
CINA致力于为其具有不同专业背景的成员提供一个有效的平台。在此平台上，工程师和专业人员，创业者和企业家，公司机构各类管理人员，天使投资人，风险或创投基金等都可交流创新信息，共享科技和商业机会。www.cina.org
Sunday, July 17, 2011
CINA Seminar: Adapting Sales Marketing Success
CINA Sales Marketing Training Program:
Adapting Marketing for Sales Success – Critical Skills to Be Competitive and Relevant
Date / Time: July 21 2011 - 06:30pm to 09:00pm
Fee: Free for lifetime members $10.00 for regular members and $25.00 for non-members ( including membership renew)
Send email to rsvp@cina.org with subject "CINA 7/21 name ="
Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP.;
801 California Street,
Mountain View CA
Speaker: Nancy Chou, principal of Nancy Chou Marketing Consultants
Highlight
In this special event, we invited a successful industry expert to help our Entrepreneurs learn how to market your products effectively.
Following are some of the topics but not limited:
- what adaptations has Marketing been making to ensure revenue success through sales in the new era of the "Informed Buyer"?
- What new skills do marketing and sales leaders need to acquire for growing revenues in the marketing-sales customer engagement cycle that we now operate in? - How do we ensure effective sales and marketing alignment to achieve our overall business goals?
- How to effectively utilize online marketing tools with limited resources and budget?
- What are different tools and resources for different levels of businesses?
Join this great event and learn how to jump-start your sales/marketing strategy.
About Speaker
Nancy Chou, principal of Nancy Chou Marketing Consultants and founding partner of the Social Business Consulting Group, is a marketing automation/content marketing consultant and a certified social media strategist. She helps executives in both B2B and B2C enterprises across high tech, green tech, and biotech, to develop and execute effective marketing that generates revenue and corporate growth. Previously she worked for Norton/Symantec, IBM and HP, as well as a number of startups including Cygnus Solutions, acquired by RedHat and Sigaba, acquired by Proofpoint. She is on the board of the NorCal Business Marketing Association, serving as the Director of Social Media. Nancy was a marketing instructor at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B. S. degree in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge.
Adapting Marketing for Sales Success – Critical Skills to Be Competitive and Relevant
Date / Time: July 21 2011 - 06:30pm to 09:00pm
Fee: Free for lifetime members $10.00 for regular members and $25.00 for non-members ( including membership renew)
Send email to rsvp@cina.org with subject "CINA 7/21 name ="
Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP.;
801 California Street,
Mountain View CA
Speaker: Nancy Chou, principal of Nancy Chou Marketing Consultants
Highlight
In this special event, we invited a successful industry expert to help our Entrepreneurs learn how to market your products effectively.
Following are some of the topics but not limited:
- what adaptations has Marketing been making to ensure revenue success through sales in the new era of the "Informed Buyer"?
- What new skills do marketing and sales leaders need to acquire for growing revenues in the marketing-sales customer engagement cycle that we now operate in? - How do we ensure effective sales and marketing alignment to achieve our overall business goals?
- How to effectively utilize online marketing tools with limited resources and budget?
- What are different tools and resources for different levels of businesses?
Join this great event and learn how to jump-start your sales/marketing strategy.
About Speaker
Nancy Chou, principal of Nancy Chou Marketing Consultants and founding partner of the Social Business Consulting Group, is a marketing automation/content marketing consultant and a certified social media strategist. She helps executives in both B2B and B2C enterprises across high tech, green tech, and biotech, to develop and execute effective marketing that generates revenue and corporate growth. Previously she worked for Norton/Symantec, IBM and HP, as well as a number of startups including Cygnus Solutions, acquired by RedHat and Sigaba, acquired by Proofpoint. She is on the board of the NorCal Business Marketing Association, serving as the Director of Social Media. Nancy was a marketing instructor at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B. S. degree in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge.
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