Sunday, December 19, 2010

links to visit when you have time



进入第二轮的66个项目中,分属生物医药、云计算和移动互联网、清洁能源和技术、物联网和智能电网、其他交叉科学类部分媒体报道北美创业大赛,66团队成功晋级,海外华人创业涨潮(12/12千人计划网首页头条) http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/11002百多项目赶搭中国经济高速列车 http://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2010/11-17/2661334.shtml
千人计划-"赢在21世纪"北美高层次人才创业团队大赛举行 http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/10125
「赢在21世纪」已吸引逾百华裔团体参赛 http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/uslocal/singtao/20101116/08212001885.html
千人计划官网,"千人计划"张光志:鼓励海外高层次人才创业,http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/8473
千人计划官网,"赢在21世纪"北美高级人才创业大赛启动,http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/8401
千人计划官网 赢在21世纪 苏州招才引智网罗全球高新项目,http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/9020
千人计划官网-“赢在21世纪”北美高层次人才创业团队大赛举行 http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/10125
北美创业大赛探营,来自北美十五州,覆盖五大产业- 百多项目赶搭中国经济高速列车 http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/sinaus/su/20101116/14512002291.html
中新社:北美创业大赛 百多项目赶搭中国经济高速列车 http://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2010/11-17/2661334.shtml
「赢在21世纪」已吸引逾百华裔团体参赛 http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/uslocal/singtao/20101116/08212001885.html
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2010/11-16/2659124.shtml
千人计划官网,“赢在21世纪”北美高级人才创业大赛启动 http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/8401
欧美同学会 http://www.wrsa.net/36/2010/10/08/22@10275.htm
侨胞视频报道 http://video.usqiaobao.com/2010-10/06/content_586371.htm
http://news.uschinapress.com/2010-10/05/content_582896.htm
“赢在21世纪” 北美高层次人才创业大赛4日在硅谷正式启动
http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2010-10-06/103418195688s.shtml
侨报:http://www.chinapressusa.com/2010-10/05/content_583011.htm
新浪网“赢在21世纪”北美高层次人才创业大赛在美国硅谷启动
http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/news/usa/sinaus/su/20101005/15191881387.html
新华社:http://news.163.com/10/1005/15/6I8A3KIK00014JB5.html
http://www.tianjinwe.com/rollnews/sh/201010/t20101005_1980979.html
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/society/2010-10/05/c_12631400.htm
中新网http://www.chinanews.com.cn/lxsh/2010/10-06/2569997.shtml
KTSF mandarin http://www.ktsf.com/share/news/KTSF_Video_Player.asp?playMode=2&clip=m100410a.flv
         cantonese http://www.ktsf.com/share/news/KTSF_Video_Player.asp?playMode=2&clip=c100410a.flv
“赢在21世纪” 北美高层次人才创业大赛 http://www.dingding.tv/bbs/read.php?tid=2210&page=1

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

article: China Tech IPOs Soar

blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/12/09/china-tech-ipos-soar/
dec. 09, 2010
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I was at a holiday party recently for DCM, a well-known venture firm in the Valley that has seen a series of IPOs from among its China portfolio—e-commerce retailer and bookseller Dangdang and automotive website BitAuto as the latest examples—when I was asked once again. Why don’t you raise a venture fund? No, really.
I’ve always been terrible at math so I figure anything that has to do with high finance is better left to the numerically gifted. But all joking aside, this isn’t the first time the suggestion has been made. Maybe I do have a knack for picking promising entrepreneurs and their startups to profile—though I never invest in these startups myself and don’t offer investment advice.
Just this week alone, three venture-backed Chinese tech startups I wrote about in my book Silicon Dragon—e-commerce retailer Dangdang, video sharing site Tudou and an energy savings producer LatticePower—are marking major milestones. Each is on their way to being the talk of Wall Street as investment prospects: Beijing-based Dangdang for raising $272 million in an IPO and seeing its opening share price soar, video sharing site Tudou from Shanghai for being next in line to go public (following the lead of rival Youku and its share price surge of nearly 110 percent over the IPO) and finally LatticePower for raising $55 million from the IFC to continue developing its breakthrough light-emitting diodes from Nanchang.
Just three years ago, most Chinese startups were unheard of in the West, aside from search engine Baidu and online trading marketplace Alibaba, which were among the earlier wave of Internet startups to make a splash with successful public trading debuts. But now more and more small China businesses are following the lead of these trend-setters a few years ago and being recognized on the global investment stage as attention turns to emerging markets for improved returns.
The sheer numbers of listings and IPOs from mainland China alone is a head turner. So far this year, NASDAQ counts 34 new listings and 15 IPOs from Mainland China while the comparables at NYSE are 24 and 19.
Of the 34 mainland China IPOs this year, 19 are trading upward from their IPO price, with a few showing triple-digit gains such as NASDAQ-listed ChinaCache International and Hisoft Technology. Most of these startups have venture capital support, and from such leaders as Sequoia Capital, which alone is an investor in four of the newly traded Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges.
I wasn’t too surprised by Dangdang’s impressive opening day of trading. I recall interviewing co-founder Peggy YuYu back in 2007 for my book, when she and her husband were establishing the online bookseller. Then, I had been impressed by her quiet determination and keen intellect. Since that initial interview, she wisely kept a low profile, taking a cue from DCM investor David Chao to stay focused on fast and profitable growth of the startup and not get distracted by the noise of China’s booming marketplace.
The ten-year-old startup turned a profit last year. Moreover, it solidified its lead in the Chinese marketplace over an Amazon-owned rival, Joyo.com— thanks to micro-management of the business details – like relying on bicycle couriers to deliver orders—and Peggy’s own flair for merchandising in moving Dangdang from an online bookseller to an e-commerce retailer with a range of popular goods.
Next in line for an IPO among the Silicon Dragon startups is video sharing site Tudou.com.
Founder and CEO Gary Wang is another returnee who, like Peggy, got his education and work experience in the West before moving back to his homeland about a decade ago to try his own business—albeit both versions of business ideas that were proving successful in the U.S.
Over the past decade, these and many other Chinese startups have evolved quickly, and judging from insights I’ve gained from interviews with their founders, investors and competitors, are measuring up to the best from Silicon Valley.
Now, I’m spotting a new trend as Chinese entrepreneurs go to the next level and begin to show enough confidence to come up with new ideas and innovations – no longer just close copies of U.S. originals.
LatticePower, started by a physicist with skills and experience honed in China, is a good example of this new trend with its breakthrough technology for making a highly efficient source of light. I went to tour LatticePower in Nanchang and can still hear Sonny Wu, the investor at GSR Ventures, telling me that LatticePower will be a “billions” IPO.
That may be an exaggeration, but it’s clear that Chinese startups are maturing—and fast. They are beginning to set their own standards—be it on Wall Street or in the lab—and are a force that’s here to stay.
Rebecca A. Fannin is the author of is the author of Silicon Dragon and a former international editor at Red Herring and Incisive Media. She is the founder of Silicon Asia, an e-newsletter, consulting and events group focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.


Cloud gaming patent arrives - after 8 years

8 years before patent approval

(patent application was not even examined until 5 years after application)

currently 750,000 backlog at USPTO

www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211469/Cloud-gaming-patent-arrives-after-8-years

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

peoplesmart.com

very powerful people search site

peoplesmart.com

Mayfield

Pehong Chen's first startup was funded by "Mayfield" (he later became a partner of the venture fund)

look on their website........."consumer" (mobile, games, social, etc) is a major investment are for them

http://www.mayfield.com/

clearvale 明析谷

http://secondfloor.clearvale.com/pg/dashboard

“clearvale” is the new startup company by Pehong Chen (陈丕宏)

“明析谷”

they seem to have a strong cooperative relationship with Sina China