20 Suggestions
 in Preparing to Raise Venture Capital

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One of the great panels from Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 was the Funding panel where angel investors and startups spoke about practical advice on raising venture capital. We also heard from Benjamin Qiu, counsel at the Shanghai office of Cooley LLP (a major law firm originated in the Silicon Valley).

Trained in SV for years, he also headed legal and VC fund management at Innovation Works in Beijing. If you remember, Ben was also the panelist on our past Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013.

Raising venture capital for your startups surely sounds a good road, but on the way of pursuing that there are just too much things to consider. Ben has listed 20 practical suggestions for early startups who are preparing to raise.

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Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 Speaker Deck Showcase

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Half of the awesomeness of the past Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 (besides the rockstar startups) were of course the speakers – and while we prepare the videos of the talks from our event here are the decks presented by the speakers.

We specifically chose these speakers, not only because they are very passionate about mobile and that being based in Hong Kong they will give you the lowest-BS talk you’ll find about doing a mobile startup in HK, but because they are awesome. Every single one of our speakers is a leader in their respected fields and we are very honored to have them all speak.

We also want to give a big shout-out to Stephen Forte of AcceleratorHK, who made Mobilliance 2013 his last public speaking engagement in Hong Kong as he is bound for Palo Alto to launch Mach 5 – his new US-based accelerator with his company Telerik. We wish him the best, in his new endeavor and we don’t see it as losing one of HK’s startup connectors but rather we have one more person “on the inside” to help make intro’s in the Valley for HK startups.

OK, onwards with the presentations:

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The Top 10 Mobile Startups in Hong Kong that Showcased at Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013

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We did things differently at Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 – we handpicked the mobile startups that are from Hong Kong with a criteria instead of just putting anyone on the stage – the criteria was simple though, the startup had to have been funded, have great traction, launched within the past 12 months or showcase something truly amazing about Hong Kong – and I think we picked an amazing group and all their showcases (not pitches) were awesome.

So here is the rundown of the Top 10 startups that we featured on stage live on October 12, 2013 – we’re looking forward to seeing where they are this time in 2014 as well as to the dozens more that were inspired to launch that day.

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