3 episodes
RISE Conf RISE Conf
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RISE is produced by the team behind Web Summit. In 6 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference which last year attracted 53,000 attendees from 136 countries around the world.
In July 2017, people from the world’s biggest companies and most exciting startups will come to Hong Kong to share their stories and experiences at RISE. They’ll be joined by major global media, hundreds of investors and thousands of attendees for three days of legendary networking.
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RISE Cast 12: Arthur Chow of 6waves
Casey talks to Arthur Chow, co-founder of 6WAVES one of Asia’s most successful mobile game publishers about starting a game company in Asia, the differences between from Facebook and mobile games, competing with the game titans of Japan and an interesting perspective on forgetting about the China market.
Show notes:
6WAVES: www.6waves.com
Esports in HK: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2084454/hong-kong-lured-table-global-game-billions-grabs
Arthur on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurchow/ -
RISE Cast 11: Fritz Demopulos of Queen's Road Capital
This week Casey talks to Fritz Demopoulos of Queens Road Capital an early stage startup funding investing in China and South East Asia technology companies. We talk about exiting Qunar.com, building a startup in China when you’re the only white guy on the team and how he doesn’t mind if you pitch him your startup idea in the toilet.
Show notes
Queen’s Road Capital: http://queensroadcapital.com/
Qunar: https://www.qunar.com
Fritz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fritzdemopoulos
MelonHK: https://melonhk.com/ -
RISE Cast 10: Runway to RISE - Hong Kong
In this week's RISEcast, we feature the audio version of the Runway to RISE: Hong Kong event held at Blueprint on April 27, 2017. 7 HK startups pitch for the 2 spots on the BREAKTHROUGH stage at RISE with 1 winner going to Web Summit! Plus “What is RISE?” and “5 Ways to hack RISE”
Watch it live:
https://www.facebook.com/RISEConfHQ/videos/783667348456445/
Blueprint:
http://blueprint.swireproperties.com/
BeFastTV:
https://befast.tv/
The next Runway to RISE events:
https://riseconf.com/runway-to-rise
Get into the RISE Alpha programme:
https://riseconf.com/startups/alpha
Startups:
Design Jar: www.designjar.com
Ibebot: wwwibebot.com
Silentmode: www.silentmode.com
Mob Mob: www.yoswit.com
GROM: www.getgrom.com
De-Own: www.de-own.com
Minor MynasL: www.minormynas.com