Asia Startup Pulse

Aiming to build diverse culture and mindset in the whole ecosystem, Jan manages Startup Grind China & APAC as the Community Director. Startup Grind is the world's largest entrepreneurship community connecting more than 1 Million entrepreneurs in over 365 cities, among which over 80 cities are in China. In this episode, Jan shares how Startup Grind China grew up to a successful program, his focus in managing community and most importantly, his perspective on opportunities for startups and investments in China. Can't wait to listen to it! Cheers!

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Many thanks to our host Ryan Shuken, guest Jan Smejkal, editor David and Geep, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared.

Are you struggling to form a team and curious what influence team dynamics?

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Many thanks to our special host Oscar Ramos and Ryan Shuken, our awesome roaming mentor Alan Clayton, editor David and Geep, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared.

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The increasing demand of mobile UI/UX and the gradual openness of the society to freelancers have led to the rapid development of China's design and creativity industry. Tezign, as a data-driven design platform, helps companies connect and match designers in different scenarios. In this episode, we invited Tezign's co-founder and chief product officer Steve Wang to share his observations in China's design ecosystem and his judgments on future opportunities. He particularly shared how Tezign, as a bridge between foreign designers and Chinese companies, has promoted the development of creativity ecosystems both at home and abroad.

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Many thanks to our special host Oscar Ramos and Ryan Shuken, guest Steve Wang, editor David and Geep, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared.

When you ask foreigners why they come to China to start a business, many people will say that because the Chinese market is very large and they marvel at China speed. But the key to the problem is not what brought you to China, but why you have stayed in China for so long. Today we have a special podcast with 3 "Laowai" guests who have been in China for over 10 years and are respectively leading the frontiers of venture capital accelerator, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship in Shanghai. They stated that compared to other cities, Shanghai is so different and crazy. From their mouths, you will hear China's great changes in the past decade in the eyes of foreigners. Let's listen to it!

Host: Graham Brown, Host of Asia Tech Podcast

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Many thanks to our special host Graham Brown, guest Oscar Ramos, Kapil Kane and Geoffrey Handley, editor David and Geep, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared.

With more than 8 years of experience at the world’s leading gaming companies, Kevin Yu decided to stay in China and build Sidechef, “Netflix for recipes” after his first startup exit. Realizing people’s passion for food and cooking, Kevin is determined to unlock the inner potential of people and used the lessons from gaming industry to food industry. In this episode, Kevin shared many interesting insights on building a team, fundraising and building investor relations in China, and elaborated on the simple idea of never give up.

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With 11 team members working and living in 5 different cities, Fei Yao and her company QLC are redefining working, learning and living. After leaving a traditionally successful career path as a management consultant, Fei founded the remote internship platform QLC. In this episode, she shares her view of the growing demand of people changing their jobs, and advocates the idea of lifelong learning and co-living.

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“Entrepreneurship helps me to define who I am,” says Brian Tam, the founder of a creative and innovation consultancy named Let’s Make Great. Realising the need for creative thinking and innovation in China, Brian shared with us how he started his self discovery adventure in China and later catalysed his ideas into creating “Let’s Make Great”. He also touched upon how innovation in China has involved, the changing perceptions of innovation in China and his take on how to approach it.

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Venture Capital tends to shut the door if you don't have a team, a product and some customers due to too many risks. Increasingly, entrepreneurs in China with just an idea are having difficulty in getting money and help. Focused on the ideation stage before accelerators and incubators, Albert Liang, CEO and Founder of IGENESIIS, is dedicated to inspiring people to become founders through a 4-month process with their mentor community and courses on skills, resilience, and core values.

Ideation programs is an emerging trend around the world, especially in Silicon Valley. Having started the first ideation program in China, Albert has many incredible insights about how to "maturalize" your idea into a business in Chinese market. As a serial entrepreneur, Albert also has prospective insights about why the current environment is ready for IGENESIIS and how investors are likely to respond to this opportunity.

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When independent, young professional women struggle to find the right network, resources and support, what dilemma are they facing? In this episode, Michelle Li, founder and CEO of Sorority China, the first and one of a kind community and sisterhood in China for independent women, has all the answers. Coming from a single child background and having experienced living in a supportive sisterhood in school, Michelle tells her story on how she started creating a sisterhood for women entrepreneurs, growing mentors and changing the gender dynamic in China.

Michelle empathises with these women in dilemma and also shares with us some good suggestions for female entrepreneurs from her perspective.

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When trust has become the biggest issue in the Chinese healthcare market, how do you tackle the market and rebuild trust? In this latest episode, Sébastien Gaudin, CEO and Co-Founder of the CareVoice shared with us his experience tackling one of the biggest market in China - healthcare. His solution, “trip advisor” for healthcare, helps bring private healthcare trust and a sense of peace of mind with very simple ideas.

Recently raised 2M to bring its cost, quality transparency app to China, Sébastien Gaudin tells his story on how he started tackling healthcare business in China, rebuilds trust and pivots when needed.

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