Is it a side project or is it a startup?

When does a project cross the line to becoming a startup? When is a startup idea better pursued as a side project? I’ll hold a discussion based on my experience being employee #1 and creative director at 3D Avatar School, and with bootstrapping and launching 88 Gong as a labor of love. 

Jason Li is a designer and entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. When he’s not busy designing something new, he can be found working on one of his comics projects or in a corner with his nose buried in a book. He’s lived in the US, Canada, Spain and China, and isn’t quite sure where he wants to live anymore.

The meeting will be held at BootHK, 19/F, 231 Queen’s Road East at 7:30pm, Monday September 10, 2012.

Simon Newstead is the co-founder and CEO of Frenzoo.com – which started out as an online virtual world and has now pivoted into one of the most exciting new mobile game companies around.

Simon will be on stage to do a Q&A with us about how he started, what he learned building Frenzoo at Cyberport, pivoting and raising big money to grow his Me Girl games and how he developed it for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire! 

We’ll also have 3 new Hong Kong mobile start-ups pitch us their companies to a panel of judges and the start-up community.

As usual the fun starts at 7pm at Grappa’s Cellar – and we wine and dine you as well for HK$100.

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