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Announcement: HKSUA Event At HK Science Technology Parks - March 16: ” The 3 P’s of Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs: Principles, Practice, & Pitch Preparation To Investors”

Dear HKSUA,

 

The HKSUA is pleased to announce details of our forthcoming event at Hong Kong Science Technology Parks (HKSTP) on March 16th 2010.

 

Frederick Yung, Senior Manager of the HKSTP, will present on the topic of “The 3 P’s of Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs: Principles, Practice, & Pitch Preparation To Investors”. The HKSUA will also provide an update on developments and plan for 2010.

 

All those interested to learn about pitch preparation and understanding angel financing are encouraged to attend.

 

The event will be held at meeting room 3, G/F, InnoCentre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong starting at 6:30pm to 8pm on Tuesday 16 March 2010. Places are limited.

 

Please email info@hksua.com.hk to register. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

 

Thank you and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.

 

Regards,

HKSUA

 

This should be a good event for those Startup Monday members that are interested in developing their pitch. Sign up now, as space may be limited.

This site is quite useful if you are trying to come up with what to use for your next company's look and feel or a new site.

• The fold is one of those guidelines that has been thrown about so much that it's now become a 'rule' of web design (or maybe more appropriately a 'ball and chain' of web design) with web designers blindly obeying without question.

The ‘above the fold’ concept came from Newspapers, the aim being to put the most eye catching story or image on the folded over, most visible part of the paper, with an ULTIMATE goal of encouraging people to then buy the paper to read the rest of it.

Web design adopted this idea, basing their integration of the concept upon the most common browser sizes.

However, the digital fold concept evolved into ‘squash as much content as you can above a certain number of pixels’.

This is wrong, wrong, wrong.

A worthwhile read for anyone setting up a landing page. I'm considering this approach for a re-work of the Sampi site.

That's the money shot there. Awesome write-up from a company that is in a similar situation to my startup. If you are considering not doing a freemium offering, check this out.

Yes, Top 10 lists are clichéd, but I think they’re ubiquitous for a reason.  Ten items is a long enough list to be useful, but more than that causes busy people (or those with short attention spans) to lose interest and move on.

A useful set of resources in funding, advisors, incorporation, and staying lean.

This is an interesting Creative Commons template for putting together a business model. The linked page has references to the template and also a post about how to use it. Could be a good tool for when you are trying to figure out "So, how is it that we are supposed to make money from this?"

Mar 03, 2010 -

As a marketing tool Twitter gets much more interesting and useful when you can filter out 99% of the junk that doesn’t apply to your objectives and focus on the stuff that matters.

The basic search.twitter.com functionality is fine for searching things that are being said about your search terms. The advanced search function offers more ways to slice and dice the stream, but still leaves some room for improvement as it only searches what’s being said and where. From a marketing standpoint who is saying it might be more useful.

Now that the search engines are all pretty geeked up over real time search you can create some very powerful searches and alerts combining Google and Twitter.

1) Target by occupation

...

Here is a good reference on how to get more out of twitter for useful info and intel.

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Can you choose how you want to be taxed when owning a LLC?

Tips to an effective marketing?

Top Resources For Entrepreneurs?

OK, I'm not sure how many of you are developers, but I think most are. So, this is Stack Overflow for business, 'nuff said.

Last night, I attended the DC Lean Startup Circle in Arlington, Virginia, hosted by Kevin Dewalt and Ken Yarmosh, featuring a couple of industry heavy weights, Dave McClure and Eric Ries, talking about everything “Lean Startup.” The group was in town for the Startup Visa Act which we covered previously. The duo spoke for a bit and then answered some questions from local entrepreneur about the lean startup mantra. I had always thought that lean startup = bootstrapping. I was way definitely mistaken.  Lean Startup encompasses some great principles that Eric, who writes a blog called Startup Lessons Learned, was able to really break “lean startup” down for the audience and give some real world examples to further solidify the principles.  In a nutshell, there are three principles that define lean startup:

1. How to measure progress
2. What’s the cycle time of having the idea and validating it
3. Minimize cycle time

Good video of Eric Ries and Dave McClure at a meetup in DC discussing Lean Startup.