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Nurturing Technopreneurship in China. Chris Evdemon ( 易可睿 ) Partner, Innovation Works Development Fund (IWDF) Director, Finn Evdemon Capital Partners Pte. Ltd. Director, Business Angels Network South-East Asia (BANSEA) July 2012. 1. What does a technopreneur need?. Infrastructure - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Nurturing Technopreneurship Nurturing Technopreneurship in in ChinaChina
Chris Evdemon (易可睿 )Partner, Innovation Works Development Fund (IWDF)
Director, Finn Evdemon Capital Partners Pte. Ltd.
Director, Business Angels Network South-East Asia (BANSEA)
July 2012
What does a technopreneur need?
Infrastructure•Market
•Talent Pool& Language of Communication
•Turnkey Services
•Early Stage Investors
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Culture•Entrepreneurship
•No Fear of Failure
•Innovation
•Re-Circulationof Knowledge and Capital
An early stage ecosystem!
Chinese Internet: largest market + low cost
Source: iResearch
500M internet & 300M mobile internet users
$250K Chinese “lean start-ups”
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Chinese Internet: a unique confluence
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Simultaneously!Sequentially
Some characteristic facts:
Different Usage of Internet
Chinese Internet: “an animal of its own”
Various social phenomena:•Curious users, hungry to explore (much less goal-oriented).•Entertainment-centric. •Information-overloaded.•Users eager to have a voice for self-expression.•Exposing corruption, enabling civilian ‘paparazzi’.
A market reserved for locals:
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… with cut-throat competition!
“The internet is like a mirror, reflecting our society. If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror,
we have to fix society.”
Vint Cerf
Entrepreneurship in China• Today Chinese entrepreneurship is in transition.
• Still a new concept for local graduates.
• Peer and family pressure towards ‘secure’ corporate
jobs.
• Older generation is risk averse but grass-roots
entrepreneurship from young people is improving.
• “Returnees”, with prior overseas experiences, are
coming back to start their own companies.
• Few home-grown role models.
Gradually, a new class of serial entrepreneurs is emerging:
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Hungry for success.
Familiar with the local market.
Able to iterate quickly.
Grew up with the Internet.
Starting-up in China: the problems Nascent angel network.
• Angel investors are few and immature: minimal value-add and unreasonable expectations.
• No technical/ market understanding to evaluate early-stage opportunities.
Home-grown CEOs need mentoring.
• Entrepreneurs are often uni-dimensional.• Limited innovation and imagination.• Limited business, industry, and operational
experience.
Fear of failure.
• The Chinese culture is less tolerant of failure.• Many engineers and managers are well-paid and
risk-averse.• Low burn-rate allows “living dead” projects to
survive for years before admitting failure.
Legal complexity – the “SINA” structure.
• Difficult to assemble a complete and complementary team.
• Limited access to resources, network, and industry information. Information flow is not fluid in China.
Tough to assemble a full team early-on.
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A nascent angel community …
Lei Jun (雷军 )
Incubators
VC
Founders
Angels
Zhou Hongyi (周鸿祎 )
Angel VC
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$28B$28B$19B$19B
$7B$7B
Xu Xiaoping (徐小平 )
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… and a growing but later-stage focused VC market2002 – 2010 Total VC Funds Raised and No. of New Funds
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• Already the 2nd largest VC market in the world but still only about 1/4th of the U.S.
• Chinese VC industry increasingly becoming more local, both in terms of currency as well as GPs / LPs.
• Very little attention to early stage and few GPs with the right skill-set / background.
IW as a case study: a unique platform to fill the gaps
Innovation Works (IW) built based on:
•A team with entrepreneurial mindset.
•Offering fair economics.
•Patience and passion to mentor.
•Product and technology expertise.
•Supporting professional services.11
Investment – Angel / Series A stagesIncubation – Formative / Seed stage
Operations Investment Full-TimeProfessionals
8,000 m2 a unique collocation environment in Beijing
IW as a case study: the process
1. Invest in key themes.
3. Double-down on winners.
HighGrowth
HighValue
Low Capex Localizable &Differentiable
100%
10%
25%
40%
Seed
Angel
Series B
Series A
2. Help “lean startups” scale up quickly.
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4. Apply learnings to find more winners.
Concentrate investments on specific themes
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Group-Buying
2009
Covers 210M devicesin 1.5 years
>1M Tapas Phones + >10M apps
600M app downloads in 2 years
35M users in 2 years5M users in 1 year
Alexa global 1500 in 6 months
100M downloads in 1.5 years
7M users in 1 year
Users 3x, Revenue 10x in 3 months
Zynga-likeplatform
HTML5 game platform
No barrier to entry, competes on cost only, lacks merchant value.
LBS PlatformB2C E-Commerce
iPad/iPhone edutainmentfor toddlers
Not currently suitable for China.China LBS should focus on:food/fun + make/save money.
Mostly in trouble; One having massive lay-offs.
Price & marketing war leading to likely bubble.6500 clones, 500 dying/month.
High user acquisition costs.No longer “lean startup”.
20112010
Android Ecosystem Casual + Mobile Game Ecosystem
Unfilled Need In SNS
MonetizableO2O Service
Attract “best-of-class” Founders / CEOs
He HuangCo-founder, LeiyooPM Director, Tencent
Jack XuCEO, DiandianCo-founder, Renren.com (multi-billion US$ IPO)
Binsen TangCEO, XingcloudFounder, Elex Tech,4th largest social game developer in the world
Ye WangCEO, Doodle MobileSpecial Assistant to CEO, Google China
Ryan XuCEO, BudingFounder & CTO, Tsinghua Tongfang Micro-electronics
Lei ZhangCEO, TapasBaidu Mobile director; 8 yrs. Huawei experience
Erik HuangCOO, ZhihuSr. Editor, Sohu
Jeffrey MaCEO, NevelVP of R&D, Rising10+ experience in security
Chuan LuoCEO, AppChinaCEO, MSN ChinaCEO, Myspace ChinaCOO, China Mobile 139
Serial Entrepreneurs Experienced Executives
Junyu WangCOO, WandoujiaSenior designer, Google ChinaLimin ZhouCEO, WandoujiaChief Architect, Baidu
Fan JiangFounder, UmengGoogle China
Hongfei TianCEO, LOOAOracle USA
Mily YouPresident, TapasPM Director, Tencent MobileFei ZhaoCo-founder, LeiyooEngineering Director, Renren
Zhenyang ZhanCEO, XinyouCOO, Kingsoft GamesJing JianCEOCo-founder, Lianzhong GamesJun XiongCEO, TongbuCTO, NetDragon
Innovation Works Confidential 14
Help start-ups scale quickly with services
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The IW company-building processThe IW company-building process
11 22 33 44
Legal / GR
Offshore set-up
Share issuance
Term sheets
Local licenses
Finance
Payroll
Taxes
Budget
Rent
Tech / UX
System reviews
Code reviews
Design reviews
Introductions
Mentoring
Mentoring sessions
Executive coaching
Team building
X-company clubs
PR/Marketing
Grants & subsidies
PR events
Product promotion
Speaking slots
Recruiting
Internet headhunter
Resume database
Campus recruiting
EIR program
Aiming to save >50% time spent by entrepreneurs on these areas.
Recruiting, mentoring, and “everyday” DD
Speech: 8000 people
Written exam: 1000 people
Interview: 100 people
Offer: 30 people
Welcome!
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Recruiting at Top Schools
1:1 Mentoring and “everyday”
DD
Weekly Distinguished Guest Mentors
Jerry Yang, Yahoo
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft
Huang Brothers, Guitar Hero
Steve Chen, Youtube
Bill Buxton, Microsoft
Gary Wang, Tudou
500,000Resume Database
IW results in 2.5 years: 13 Series A & 2 Exits
Partnering with top VCs in China:
Two M&A Exits = 17X return in ~ 1 year
47 Series A
13Closed
4 M&A
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Ongoing (Seed + Pre-Series A)28
13 Series A delivering 20x step-up from seed
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40m Users in <2 Years
90m Users in 1.5 Years
210m Devices covered in <2 years
Amazing growth stories
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