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XU Xiaoping(Bob), Partner, ZhenFund

Mr. XU Xiaoping is the Founder of ZhenFund. He is also known as one of the China's pioneering angel investors, with distinctions from The Founder Magazine as "

2010 Most Respected Angel Investor " , "2011 Angel Investor of the Year" , "2012Best Angel Fund in China" , and "2013 Best Angel investor in China".

Prior to founding ZhenFund, Mr. Xu was a Co-Founder of New Oriental Education &Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), the largest provider of private education in China. He is highly regarded among college students and considered a legendary figureby millions of young Chinese students studying abroad who were influenced by his writing, teaching and speeches.

In 2006, China Southern People's Weekly voted Mr. Xu to be one of China's "50 Most Charismatic People", and in 2004, Forbes Magazine listed Mr. Xu as one of China's "Top 100 Celebrities".

WANG Qiang(Victor), Partner, ZhenFund

Mr. WANG Qiang is the Co-Founder of ZhenFund. He is also a famous collector andlover of ancient books. Mr. Wang is not only a well respected business man, butalso a well-known humanities and philosophy scholar. As such, Mr. Wang is ZhenFund's Director of Entrepreneurial Thought and frequently advises portfolio companies on their mission and vision.

Prior to ZhenFund, Mr. Wang was the Co-Founder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), the largest provider of private education in China. Heserved as Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at New Oriental,

and established New Oriental's spoken English division. His popular English classes were reported in-depth by Time Magazine in 2000. Mr.Wang also hosted a popular TV show called "From Word to the World", which was widely broadcasted on more than 30 channels in China.

Keith Teare, Founder, Archimedes Labs

Keith Teare is a founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. He is also


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CEO of just.me. Previously Keith was co-founder of TechCrunch, the founder of RealNames, a Palo Alto based company specializing in Internet navigation and search technologies; co-founder of 'The EasyNet Group', a leading pan-European broadband supplier to businesses; co-founder of CYBERIA, the world's first Internet Caf; and founder of cScape, a UK based systems integration specialist dating backto 1983. Keith seed funded NetNames, the first domain name reseller in the world, where he was also Chairman of the Board of Directors. He also sat on the Advisory Board of VeriSign's Naming & Directory Services division.

Dr. James ZHANG, Partner, Formation 8

Dr James Zhang is a Partner at Formation 8 and is based in Beijing China. He began his career as the founding scientist at Mendel Biotechnology and led its business development. As an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures, James co-founded BioDiscovery Inc, a modern agriculture company, and led the China initiatives of a number of portfolio companies (including Lanzatech). Most recently, James is a Venture Partner at Softbank China Venture Capital and a Managing Director of Australian Government's Renewable Energy Venture Capital (REVC) Fund. As aChina native, James attended the University of Science and Technology of China.He has a PhD in Genetics from the University of California Davis and has completed his post-doctoral and business training at Stanford University and StanfordGraduate School of Business.

Bess HO, Partner, Archimedes Labs

Bess Ho serves as partner at Archimedes Labs, a Palo Alto-based startup incubator for early seed stage startup. A popular conference speaker, Bess has presentedat the GSMA Mobile Asia Conference, Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC-SV), WIT Women Technology Summit, Android Open, Web20 Expo, Where 20, Silicon Valley China Wireless Conference (SVCW), and Silicon Valley Code Camp (SVCC), among others. She is often mentioned in national and local newspapers.

Bess advises LumoBack (Series A), Eligible (Angel Round, YCombinator, Rock Health), AfterShip (Seed Round, Global Startup Battle Winner), KarFarm (Early Seed Round).

Anna FANG, General Manager, ZhenFund

Ms. Anna Fang is the General Manager of ZhenFund, where she is responsible for ZhenFund's investments and operations for both the RMB and USD funds. Anna has invested in over 50 internet and education companies since ZhenFund's collaboration with Sequoia Capital China.

Before joining ZhenFund, Ms. Fang was an Associate at GE China responsible for corporate business development initiatives. Ms. Fang started her career as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. She serves as a Board member for several internetstart-ups in China and is also an Advisory Board Member of Columbia University'

s East Asia Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University in Economics and a Masters of Business Administration from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Jay Eum, Co-Founder, TransLink Capital

Jay Eum is a co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. Jay is responsible for TransLink's investments in Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), Chartboost, Enterprise DB, Livescribe, Peel, Quixey, SoundHound, and YuMe. He is also responsibl


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e for supporting TransLink's portfolio companies with their customers and partners primarily in Korea.

Most recently, Jay was the head of Samsung Ventures America. He was responsiblefor starting up the U.S. operations for Samsung Venture Investment Corp., the venture investment arm of Samsung, and leading their U.S.-based investments and portfolio management. Under Jay's leadership, Samsung Ventures America grew to a team of five investment professionals and invested over US$80M in 27 U.S.-based start-up companies. Jay directly led several successful Samsung Ventures' investments including AnalogTech (NASDAQ: AATI), Athena Semiconductor (acquired by Broadcom), Continuous Computing (acquired by RadiSyS), DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX), InPhi (NASDAQ: IPHI), Intellon (NASDAQ: ITLN), MontaVista (acquired by Cavium), Pure Digital (acquired by Cisco), Sandbridge (acquired by Qualcomm), SiBeam (acquired bySilicon Image), Techwell (NASDAQ: TWLL) and Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). Jay also led investments in GCT Semiconductor and Intematix.

Brittany Richards, Venture Director, Citi Ventures

Brittany is a dynamic business builder and change leader. She brings 15 years ofexperience working at the crossroads of innovative new business models and existing legacy systems and thinking. Brittany has identified and invested in disruptive business models and has translated them into existing businesses across different industries and sizes.

Currently, Brittany is a Venture Director at Citi Ventures. Her mandate includesidentifying and investing in next generation and disruptive business models inthe commerce, payments, financial technology, and digital spaces. Brittany is also implementing these game-changers into the Citi businesses by enhancing existing and creating new business models and processes.Prior to Citi Ventures, Brittany was Citi's Head of North America Business Development for the Treasury and Trade Services business. This division has over $8 billion in revenue and focuseson serving the world's largest global corporations and financial institutions inover 100 countries. Brittany's main focus was to impact the bottom line by identifying capabilities and trends that result in new business models and profit pools for Citi. Her responsibilities also included asset monetization, originationand execution of M&A transactions globally, and strategic partnerships. She has

spearheaded multiple global transactions including deals in Asia and Latin America, interacting with the C suite of some of the leading innovative companies.Inearlier endeavors, Brittany founded an advisory practice, which she grew exponentially. She focused on individuals and small businesses to ensure they achievedtheir wealth and other strategic business goals.Brittany holds an MBA from Cornell University, where she was a Forte Scholar and has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati.

YUAN Chenwen, Founder Relations Manager, ZhenFund

Ms. Chenwen Yuan is the Founder Relations Manager of ZhenFund. She is responsible for both deal sourcing and portfolio management, providing founder services in

areas such as strategy and recruiting.

Prior to ZhenFund's establishment, Ms. Yuan was Mr. Xu Xiaoping's Investment Assistant and coordinated over 30 of his early stage angel investments. She also oversees ZhenFund's relationships with overseas student communities. She graduatedin 2010 with a B.A. in Finance & Marketing from Boston University.

DANG Xiaolin, Partner, Patent Attorney, Trademark Attorney, Attorney-at-law


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Mr. Dang Joined Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd. in 1999. He hasboth engineering and legal backgrounds and received triple qualifications in China including lawyers qualification, patent attorney qualification and trademarkattorney qualification. He also received LL.M. degree from the U.S. and passedpatent bar before USPTO.

Mr. Dang has consulted and received trust from many clients including domestic and international corporations as well as multinational groups. His wording areacovers patent cases including protection plan and filing strategies of technology, drafting of patent applications in Chinese or English or both, prosecution ofpatent applications, patent reexamination, patent invalidation, patent administrative litigation and patent infringement litigation, as well as other legal cases relating to trademark, copyright and unfair competition.

Technical cofounding 101=====Finding and working witha technical cofounder.Hi, I amSteve [email protected]@stevenringo

What is atechnical cofounder?Ill let you in on a secretYou dont need atechnical cofounderYou dont need atechnical cofounder*If not having a technical cofounder ispreventing you from progressing,youre doing it wrong.What stage?IdeaLaunch

OMG!Minimum Viable ProductIdeaLaunchOMG!Technicalskill/capacityrequiredTechnicalBusiness Business Model Marketing Sales

Acquisition Customer developmentetc. Feasibility BasicsYou are gamblingThe dating gameStart manually Wireframes Surveys


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Interviews Mockups Simulations etc. SaaS Tumblr Wordpress Dropbox Surveymonkey Mailchimp Analytics Mechanical TurkLearn some of the technical ropesUnderstandthe technical challengesa cofounder might faceYou dont need atechnical cofoundernecessarily^Outsource to get a head startDont outsource yourcore competencyDo outsource before

youre

competentDont be ready to part withyour equity too earlyYou can buy a solution*not a real one, anyway :-)You cant buy a cofounder*HangoutsTechnical eventsUser groupsSpeed dating eventsManaging Software ProjectsThin slices

Complete & deploy each one first before starting the nextDrawing interfaceComplete & deploy each one first before starting the nextDrawing interfaceSharing & InvitingComplete & deploy each one first before starting the nextDrawing interfaceSharing & InvitingEnhancements. Colours and undoComplete & deploy each one first before starting the nextDrawing interfaceSharing & InvitingEnhancements. Colours and undo

Publishing and replayComplete & deploy each one first before starting the nextIssue tracking systemAsset & source controlFinding Waldoclickingnous & passionGood understanding of howtechnology impacts the business andvice versa


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Broad understanding of allissues of softwaredevelopment, deployment andmanagementExpertise in your domainTrack recordOrganisedIdeaLaunchOMG!TechnologyemphasisThank you

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