You’re Invited: Fireside Chat with SoftLayer’s George Karidis at Paperclip on 19 August

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Next week, SoftLayer – and IBM Company‘s Chief Strategy Officer George Karidis will be back in Hong Kong and there are a bunch of events happening for startups.

This is a great chance to learn from the infrastructure company that recently opened a datacentre in Hong Kong (and will soon open ones in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing and Sydney for APAC) to serve the growing need for cloud services in Asia on topics like:

  • How they helped WhatsApp scale to a US$19 billion company (bought by Facebook)
  • How FitBit became the most successful Catalyst startup.
  • Share insight into the global startup market from mentoring at accelerators.
  • What the cloud means for your startups as it becomes the new standard.

George will be at a Fireside Chat at Paperclip on August 19 from 7-9pm, please register here.

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Silicon Dragon Hong Kong 2014 at Cyberport Will Feature Innovators From the US, China and Hong Kong

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Mark down April 15th on your calendar for the massive Silicon Dragon Hong Kong 2014 event at Cyberport! As a member of the StartupsHK network, Silicon Dragon is offering 20% off the standard ticket price along with two complimentary guest passes.

Click here to pick up your tickets and make sure to enter in the promo code: SiliconDragonHKPartner. As a global venture capital and entrepreneur network, Silicon Dragon Ventures has connected over 10,000 founders, deal makers, VCs and those on the banking and legal side via news, events, consulting and research.

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All Hong Kong Startups are Invited to the IBM Cloud Event on 17 March at Four Seasons

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As a home-grown entrepreneur-led business, do you know you can leverage cloud to scale up your business into a global operation? Join the free IBM Cloud Event 2014 on March 17 to hear more real case examples and explore the latest revenue-generation solution in Cloud. The event is suitable for entrepreneurs, startups, Internet and online gaming, digital advertising companies.

Here’s a run down of the afternoon’s activities:

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