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Are you struggling to form a team and curious what influence team dynamics?
Alan Clayton, roaming mentor of SOSV took us through a journey on team building, diversity and people development. Having worked with over 700 startups analysing the relationship between founders and how a diverse set of founders attribute to the future success of the company, Alan provided us some deep insights into the important elements on building and maintaining a functioning team.

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!

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.

0:25 Alan Clayton Intro
1:54 roaming mentor
7:40 Diversity Matters
11:45 HBDI

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Are you struggling to form a team and curious what influence team dynamics?
Alan Clayton, roaming mentor of SOSV took us through a journey on team building, diversity and people development. Having worked with over 700 startups analysing the relationship between founders and how a diverse set of founders attribute to the future success of the company, Alan provided us some deep insights into the important elements on building and maintaining a functioning team.

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!

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.

0:25 Alan Clayton Intro
1:54 roaming mentor
7:40 Diversity Matters
11:45 HBDI

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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.

Show Notes:
02:06 Steve Wang Introduction
02:53 How Tezign started
03:46 17 Million designers in China
04:10 More designers in tech companies
05:56 The improvement of creativity and design in China
07:00 More foreign designers in China
07:28 Utilizing user data to improve the mobile UI/UX
09:58 What’s the motivation for foreign designers to work with Chinese clients
13:19 What are the obstacles for those foreign designers in terms of communication and Tezign’s solutions
17:11 Leveraging AI technology and human power
18:30 Are there still opportunities in China design community
21:05 Freelancing industry in China is developing but…
22:15 Supply and demand for freelancers in China
24:20 Contact Tezign

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!

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

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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 foreingers. Let’s listen to it!

Host: Graham Brown, Host of Asia Tech Podcast
Guests: Oscar Ramos, Chinaccelerator Partner and Program Director
Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel
Geoffrey Handley, Founding General Partner of Haitao Capital

Show notes:
01:45 Introdcution
02:33 Why Oscar came to Shanghai
04:00 Shenzhen VS Shanghai
05:54 How was Shanghai before 2008 Olympics
09:28 Kapil’s first arrival in China
13:33 Why did you stay in China
16:35 Do engineers think of technology differently after they come to China
18:09 Mobile revolution in China
18:38 What makes Shanghai startup ecosystem special – Being open-minded
21:15 Easy access to everyone in this ecosystem
23:00 Geoffrey joined the chat
25:12 Geoffrey’s connection with China
27:09 Is this a good place for technology development

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!

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.

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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.

Show notes:
0:30 – 2:57 Kevin Yu Introduction
3:00 – 4:19 Building a team
4:54 – 6:32 Pivot to food industry
10:50 – 12:13 Team rotation
12:40 – 17:13 Fundraising and building relationships
22:42 – 26:38 marriage between food and tech
26:47 – 26:50 Connect with Kevin Yu

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With 12 team members working and living in 5 different cities, Fei Yao and her company QLC are redefining working, learning and living. After leaving the traditional successful career path as a management consultant, Fei founded QLC, a remote internship platform aiming to help ambitious and highly skilled corporate professionals explore alternative career and lifestyle opportunities. In this episode, she shared what she discovered through her hands-on experience, delivered her viewpoint of the growing demand of changing current work, education and lifestyle and also advocate the idea of lifelong learning and co-living.

Show Notes:
01:46 From a traditional career path to her first startup
11: 01The startup ecosystem in Shanghai
12:30 Why people need the future of work globally
17:26 How education is changing and the future of education
18:50 Lifelong learning to keep you refreshed
21:29 Learning through QLC
22:35 Working with Uber and Linkedin
23:45 The example of the future of living
28:13 Contact QLC

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!

Many thanks to our special guest Fei Yao, host Oscar Ramos, editor David and Geep, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared.

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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.
Aspiring to sparkle the creative spirits in more people, Brian has helped many corporations to find the right mechanism to be creative.

Show Notes:
1:43 Brian Tam introduction
6:43 What brings Brian to China
9:38 Coming to China with a strategy and vision to be more creative
14:08 The importance of team dynamic
16:40 How Innovation in China has evolved
21:53 When innovation meets corporations
25:21 The right mechanism for creativity
30:18 Changing perception of innovation in China
33:27 PROTO and how to connect with Brian

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!
Many thanks to our guest Brian Tam, host Oscar Ramos, editor David and Geep, and sponsor People Squared.

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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.

Show Notes: Jump ahead to topics
02:08 Albert Liang Introduction
04:34 What IGENSIIS is and how to “maturalize” your idea into a business
06:23 Why the environment is ready for IGENSIIS
08:23 Face the risky world and start the stepping stone program
10:08 Why Stared IGENSIIS
11:15 Ideation is an emerging trend all over the world
15:44 Hopes for the Ideation Program
25:06 How investors will react
25:52 Suggestions
27:08 Contact IGENSIIS

Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we’ll do our best to realize it!

Many thanks to our special guest Albert Liang, host Ryan Shuken, editor David and Geep, and sponsor People Squared.

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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.

Show Notes:
00:15 Introduction of Michelle Li
2:00 How and Why Michelle starts a community for like-minded women
9:40 Difficulties faced as a woman founder
16:50 How did Sorority China become successful
24:09 Thriving in Chinese market
26:50 The Future Ahead

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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, Sebastian 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, Sebastian Gaudin tells his story on how he started tackling healthcare business in China, rebuilds trust and pivots when needed.

Show Notes:
0:23 Sebastian Gaudin Introduction
2:40 How Sebastian started the CareVoice
2:54 Trust as the biggest issue
5:28 Time to Pivot
12:34 Having a Chinese Co-Founder
25:26 Next Step for the CareVoice

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