Luyi Chen’s blog

Some attendees asked us for James Boettcher’s slides, but we didn’t get approvement from the author to share this. If you are still interested in the content of this keynote speech, I quote a paragraph by Helen Zhang from our internal report:

Jim Boettcher’s lively keynote speech, peppered throughout by bits of humor, took an interesting perspective on private equity in China. It centered around a concept called the “China Paradigm Factor,” a mysterious number with a major role in calculating the value of private equities in the country. This factor is influenced by variables such as abundant and low-cost workers, easily adaptable customers who are willing to spend more and more, and capital markets in transition.

Plus8star has made a quick redesign of the website. And here is a report of web2.0 panel.

Wen Dong, a student from Nanjing, has a detailed record of the whole conference day. Among all students to the conference, I am impressed the most by the ones from Nanjing. They are well prepared and competing.

Today when I was doing ego search, I found our conference on this Chinese social event website, 8sheng. It looks like a young service, with only 2 month, based on Ruby on Rails. Since I don’t have any other good Chinese social calendar in mind, maybe this is the one to give a try. I think it’s a good idea to make the events page a dig style. When they have a large user base, this feature will be useful to filter out interesting events. They have a blog called Going On.

My summary of Web2.0 panel is available as a guest post on China Web2.0 Review. That’s better place to host Web2.0 stuff. So read and comment there.

Cui Song, an ATI alumni has a detailed record of Web 2.0 panel. This helps me remember many details. Thanks!

Stanford ATI Entrepreneurial Conference 2006 has come to an end yesterday. Thanks to everyone for coming to the event. Positive or negative? Let us know your feedback. We are listening.

I have uploaded some of the photos to flickr. Don’t forget to tag all your photos with “ati06″.

There’s an article on Danwei about Chinese piracy issue, formerly writen by Kaiser Kuo, who is our closing speaker. In the article Kaiser augues that:

All those Hollywood movies and all those CDs flooding the streets of Chinese cities have provided unprecedented exposure for young Chinese to the cultural output of the West. Pirate discs have penetrated deep into the interior, opening a window into the Western world otherwise inaccessible to the insular Chinese hinterland.

The original article worth to read including the comments on the post.

By the way, Danwei has linked to our conference homepage. Thanks!