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You have successfully raised money in your country. Your product is proving great potential. Consumers are satisfied. However, despite your experience and results, when exploring the Chinese market your strategy has to be planned from scratch. Although there are numerous angel investors and investment funds, as the market is super competitive, getting VC funding in China for your startup can be either the easiest or the hardest thing you do. It depends on how you approach it. James LaLonde, successful serial entrepreneur in China, will host a training session on "how" to get funding for your startup. James has managed to raise money for several companies, although not without facing challenges. How did he deal with them?

WHERE

Beijing, Haidian District, Innoway, Tsinghua X-elerator

海淀区海淀西大街36号 中关村创业大街昊海楼3层 清华经管创业者加速器

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WHEN

12th October, 16:00 - 17:00

At 17:00 some more fun begins! Stay at Innoway and celebrate with us the China Innovation Week over drinks and music!

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James started his career as an early employee of Microsoft Japan and led the subsidiary’s rise to the first bilion dollar revenue subsidiary of a software company in history. After his nearly 15 year corporate career which culminated in a role as CEO of a NASDAQ listed software company, James decided to become an entrepreneur and started RTM Asia.

James today teaches Entrepreneurship at the University of International Business & Economics (UIBE) and is a mentor for Stanford Graduate Business School and Chinaccelerator.  

Currently based in Beijing, James has co-founded 3 successful companies in China in the last 5 years. The first, Yodo1, is now the largest private publisher of mobile phone games in China. The second, Yoli​, is the innovative new way to learn English or Mandarin all in WeChat; bringing the study anywhere, anytime Uber-style model to language learning. The third, The Belt and Road Advisory (BRA) seeks to educate the world about China's Belt and Road Initiative.

James believes teaching others is the final step in the learning process. Many of his ideas, best practices and advice can be found in his new book "The Tao of Startups": James takes you through the key things you need to get right in the early days of your startup before you turn the next 5+ years of your life and your startup into a stress-laden nightmare. Further info about the book: https://www.startuptaobook.com​. 

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ABOUT THE VENUE

Tsinghua SEM Xelerator is a startup acceleration platform for global entrepreneurs and startups that embodies the spirit of Tsinghua. Revolving around the entrepreneurial ecosystem composed of “Space, Education, Investment” 3-in-1 model, Tsinghua SEM X-elerator brings global elite entrepreneurs together and empower them with entrepreneurship acceleration “from 1 to N”

In occasion of the 2018 China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week (9th – 15th October), the international incubator of Innoway will host international startup companies to attend a short-term acceleration camp. There will be 6 startups from Italy, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Canada and Singapore.

For the training sessions Innoway has invited relevant trainers who will share their professional advice with the international startups.

The startups not only they will attend training seminars about corporate law, IP protection, business etiquette, China's ecosystem, they will also have the chance to get to know the Beijing startup community and meet with big Chinese corporations. 

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