“Developing a Minimum Viable Product” A Talk by the Leadership Team at Mircosoft Ventures
Date: 12 March 2015, Thursday
Time: 9.00am to 10.30am
Venue: NUS School of Computing,
Seminar Room 1, COM1 level 2
Location of map and driving instructions here
Admission is free but registration is required. Refreshments will be served at 10.30 am.
Register at: https://register.comp.nus.edu.sg/ie/index.php
Organised under the Microsoft – NUS School of Computing Partnership
Supported by NUS Enterprise
Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Beijing
Since its launch in China in July 2012, Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Beijing has won the title of “Best Incubator in China” for two consecutive years and has formed strategic cooperation with many industry leaders to help start-ups connect and cooperate with clients. Among the 85 companies that have graduated from the program, more than 90% have already obtained a new round of financing, with a total valuation of over RMB 10 billion. Six enterprises have been acquired and a big data company has landed on Shenzhen Stock Market’s New Third Board.
Speakers
Frances Du is Director of Microsoft Ventures, Greater China.
Ms. Du was a Partner of GRC Chrysalix. She was formerly the Co-founder / Managing Partner of JL McGregor & Company, a firm focused on China related equity research for international hedge fund managers and buy-side financial advisory service. Ms. Du was the Director and Investment Manager of GIV Venture Partners, a $140-million venture capital fund specializing in technology investments in China and India. Ms. Du has also worked at Intel China and Intel Capital.
Ms Du is a well-respected author and research analyst in PE investment, entrepreneurship, and start-up management areas. Her work includes a bi-weekly column called “P/E Watch” for Wall Street Journal’s Chinese site.
Qiang Shen is the CTO in residence for Microsoft Ventures, Greater China.
Qiang Shen is an accomplished leader with 20 years of engineering development and management experiences. He focused on telecom and internet services areas and built several industry significant services. Qiang has the right mix of entrepreneur thinking and start-up style execution. Qiang has proven track record in the architecture, design and delivery of large scale online services, technical strategy planning and building high performance R&D team.
He was also Chief Architect and Head of R&D, at Nokia China.
Chaired by: Professor Juzar Motiwalla
