Courses & Events
What Asia Entrepreneurship Means for Silicon Valley
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013
04:15 pm - 05:30 pm
What Asia Entrepreneurship
Means for Silicon Valley
In our final session this quarter on “Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries,” the focus of our discussion will be on what Asia entrepreneurship means for Silicon Valley.
Joining our panel discussion will be Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs who have received funding from Asian sources, benefited from their networks of business contacts in Asia, foresee a unique opportunity in a specific Asian market, and/or recognize elements of Asian culture as having influenced their particular paths to becoming an entrepreneur.
David James Brunner, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, moduleQ
Dr. David James Brunner is the founder and CEO of moduleQ, a startup developing an action-oriented communication tool for professionals. moduleQ was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant by the National Science Foundation in 2011 and was a finalist in the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition in 2013. Dr. Brunner holds a PhD in Information, Technology & Management from Harvard University and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Before entering Harvard, he was an associate in the Tokyo and San Francisco offices of The Boston Consulting Group. He speaks fluent Japanese and is a Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation. Dr. Brunner is coauthor with Stanford University Professor Emeritus Edward Feigenbaum of The Japanese Entrepreneur: Making the Desert Bloom, a book describing the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Japan.
Jim C. Nguyen, President & COO, Kynded
Mr. Jim Nguyen is the Co-founder of Kynded. Kynded gives people a simple way to say thank you and let others know about it through mobile and social networks. The mobile app and online community are designed to recognize, record and reward acts of kindness. He also has deep experience developing high level relationships and business opportunities in the Vietnam market. Jim started POPS.vn in 2006 to bring licensed international entertainment content to Vietnam. He raised USD$2M from Silicon Valley’s angels and Japan’s VCs. Jim began his Vietnam advisory work as a staff of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Trade & Commerce in 1993. Under two Mayors, he led the founding of the sister city relationship between San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, the opening of the Consulate General of Vietnam and Trade Office in San Francisco. Jim holds an MBA and BA in Government and International Business from the University of San Francisco and St. Mary’s College of California. He is the co-author of Passport Vietnam: Your Pocket Guide to Vietnamese Business, Customs & Etiquette.
Yukai Chou, Gamification Expert
Mr. Yu-kai Chou is an experienced Entrepreneur as well as a Gamification Consultant & Speaker. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on Gamification at organizations like Stanford University, Google Inc., The Internet Marketing Conference, Draper Richards Retreat, UCLA, UBC Sauders School of Business and many more.
Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamifcation, starting his work in the industry in 2003 and was rated 4th among the Top 40 Gamification Gurus by Leaderboarded. Yu-kai is also the creator of The Complete Gamification Framework: Octalysis as well as the video series The Beginner’s Guide to Gamification. Yu-kai is a Partner at the Enterprise Gamification Consultancy (EGC), the leading global gamification consulting group for enterprizes. He was also the Co-Founder and CEO of RewardMe, a digital loyalty platform that aims to gamify offline commerce and was rated by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 10 Private Companies to Watch. RewardMe also won Best Commercial App at the first location-based service awards “The Locals.” Prior to RewardMe and the EGC, Yu-kai founded a variety of startups, including FDCareer (rated on Mashable as one of the Top 10 Social Networks for Gen-Ys) and Viralogy, a service that attracted hundreds of thousands of bloggers and social medians. He has consulted for a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as eBay and Wells Fargo. Yukai holds a B.A. in International Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Immediately following the session, we’ll have a short-networking reception from 5:30 – 6:15PM. This is the final session in the US-Asia Technology Management Center’s nine week seminar series on “Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries.”
Presented by the US-Asia Technology Management Center in Stanford’s School of Engineering, with support from the Miner Foundation and major series support from ISI Dentsu of America.
Details
Tuesdays, 4:15 – 5:30 pm, April 2, 2013 – June 4, 2013
Free to the Public
Stanford University, Skilling Auditorium (Directions »)
Instructor: Richard Dasher (rdasher [at] stanford [dot] edu)
Course Assistant: Tiphanie Gammon (gammontd [at] stanford [dot] edu)
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