 SINA.com Seminar: When Engineers Meet Incubators Dear alumni and Friends, Please notice that if you buy tickets on-line as a PKUAANC member, you can have a $5 discount. PKUAANC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event Detail Online: http://bizforum.sina.com/0723_event.html SINA.com Presents: ************************************************ When Engineers Meet Incubators: How to Turn Ideas into Products, and Dreams into Companies! A Face-to-face Discussion with: * Chester Wang, General Partner, Acorn Campus, Founding Partner, Acorn
Angels ************************************************ The road to a successful start-up is certainly filled with difficulties and challenges. How to turn one's technical expertise into competitive advantages, where to get funding, and how to market the new product--all of these are questions faced by these new entrepreneurs. The engineer-entrepreneurs turned to "Incubators" for help. Incubators are different from VCs in that they not only put in the capital needed, but they also provide mentoring and assistance on strategies, marketing and finances. Like parents raising their child, an incubator helps a start-up to grow. So how should engineers approach incubators for capital, advice and assistance? In return for the capital and services, how much equity should engineers of start-up companies offer the incubator? What are the current perspectives of engineers towards starting up? Let's listen to what the experienced people have to say. SINA Global Business Forum is pleased to announce a face-to-face seminar with Chester Wang and Li Gong to share with you, from the incubator's and the engineer's angle: * Is now still a good time to start up? ************************************************ Program Details: Location: Santa Clara, CA Fee: Buy Tickets Now at: http://bizforum.sina.com/payment Please purchase tickets by July 21, 2001 to save money, seats are limited and the event will be SOLD OUT soon! Our last event on 6/25 was SOLD OUT quickly! Tickets: http://bizforum.sina.com/payment
************************************************ T. Chester Wang, PhD General Partner, Acorn Campus T. Chester Wang is the general partner of Acorn Campus and a founding member of Acorn Angels. Dr. Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in Taiwan and later got his Ph.D. in physics from University of Oregon. He has been a college professor teaching computer science, founded Pacific Rim Electronics doing wholesaler semiconductor chips. Besides hitech, he has also developed the Silicon Valley Science Park and built the first Chinese-American shopping / community center, Pacific Rim Plaza, in Silicon Valley. He also served on the board of American Leadership Forum, Peninsula Open Space Trust and Worldwide Bible Society. Acorn Campus is an investment fund started by the highest caliber Silicon Valley veterans and angel investors. Its mission is to provide the most effective path to help entrepreneurs from inception to success. In addition to providing initial seed round investment to the qualified business plans, Acorn Campus also provides incubation services and mission-critical management services to accelerate the growth of the start-up. Many Acorn Mentors (Experienced executives who have taken company from inception to IPO) will in effect work with and help guide the start-up companies. ************************************************ Li Gong, Director of Engineering, Peer-to-Peer Networking, Sun Microsystems Li Gong is Director of Engineering, Peer-to-Peer Networking, at Sun Microsystems, where he helped spearhead Project JXTA through JXTA 1.0 release and the founding of jxta.org, an open source community. Previously, he was Director, Server Products, at the Consumer & Embedded division, where he led Sun's effort in home networking technologies and developed the Java Embedded Server family of products. He was Sun's representative on the Board of Directors of OSGi (Open Service Gateway initiative www.osgi.org) and was the Founding Chair of OSGi's Java Expert Group where he led the completion of OSGi's Service Gateway Specification 1.0 that was released in 2000. He initially joined Sun as Chief Java Security Architect and managed the JavaSoft security and networking group during the development of JDK 1.1, JDK 1.2, and other Java security technologies . Before Sun, he was with Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International and a guest faculty member at Cornell University. He is on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing, an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, and an Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Computer Security. He served as Program Chair and General Chair for the following conferences: the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, and the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop. He also served on numerous international conference committees (organized by ACM, IEEE, USENIX, ISOC, and WWC), and U.S. government technology advisory bodies. He holds 6 awarded U.S. patents, is the author of 2 books published by Addison-Wesley, has 60 technical publications in the field of distributed systems and security, and was awarded the Leonard G. Abraham Prize by the IEEE Communications Society in 1994. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, England. ************************************************ Lawrence Pan Vice President, Tsinghua University Alumni Association of Northern California. Lawrence Pan is VP of Business Development, in a MNC group, BOCOM Group. BOCOM Group is well known in providing cutting-edge technology products and solutions in broadband communication and applications. In year 2000, he has founded a startup company Optifront Networks (a.k.a. Salira). As a co-founder, President and acting COO, he was in charge of the fund-raising issue and setting up the US operation. Before forming the startup, he served in a startup company in Menlo Park, which went for IPO and was acquired by Sabre. Prior to that, he was with Xerox for product development/globalization, technology transfer and international software development operation in Japan, Singapore and USA. He has over fifteen years industry experience in business development, international S/W project management with CMM certified S/W management level, extensive knowledge in product development, s/w product globalization, e-commerce platform, award-winning intelligent system, critical banking & securities fraud surveillance system, optical and broadband application. He was awarded Tan Kah Kee (Chen Jia Geng) Young Inventors Award in 1991. Mr. Pan received the BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, a MS degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore, and a Master degree in Economics from the Research Institute of Fiscal Science. |