DATE: November 30, 2007  Friday
TIME: Registration 6:30pm.  Meeting starts at 7:00pm
LOCATION: Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center, Room 109, McMahon Hall
113 W 60th Street, NY, NY 10023. (see directions below)
LANGUAGE: Chinese (Mandarin)
COST: Two dollars ($2)

Teatime 48 Seminar: "Road to Entrepreneurship and Wealth" --
Reflections on Overseas Chinese American Professionals

Co-Sponsors:
This event is co-sponsored by:
Chinese American Society of Entrepreneurs (CASE)
Association of Chinese Computer Professionals, USA (ACCP)

Event Description:
Most overseas Chinese American professionals coming from mainland
China or elsewhere belong to an elite group of selected candidates
and, while aspiring for business success, usually have limited
resources (times and capital and location constraint) in executing
entrepreneurship and building wealth. While a small percentage of
overseas returnees' (Haiguis) success startup stories in China reveals
a promising aspect for late-comers, the majority still faces severe
challenges to become financially successful. Based on updated info,
what are viable business models for high-tech startups in China? How
can we benefit from China's economic uprise? Besides, for most
overseas Chinese American professionals who have settled down in the
US, what potential entrepreneurial opportunities display feasibility
for us to explore or pursue in local business or Sino-US businesses?
The speaker, with a dozen years of professional and business
experience, will share with the audience his observations, reflections
and efforts towards entrepreneurship and wealth building.

Topics include:
Dilemma and Challenges for Overseas Chinese American Professionals:
Life-Style Entrepreneurship;
Overview and Business Model Analysis of Overseas Chinese Returnees'
Startups in China: First- and Second-Generation High-Tech Startups ,
"Three Ben" -- Business Success Keys by Taiwan Businesses in mainland;
Exploring Entrepreneurship in Sino-US Businesses: Information
Asymmetry, Software/Pharm Outsourcing, Technology Transfer,
Import/Export, RMB Appreciation/USD Depreciation;
Riding the Uprise & Boom of China's Economy: Real Estate, Stock Market, etc.;
Entrepreneurship and Wealth Building in the US: Warren Buffet as Role
Model, Stock Market, Real Estate Foreclosure, etc. ;
Lessons: Well Prepared, Improve, Reflect, Execute.

Speaker:
Andy Dai, Ph.D.
Chairman, Chinese American Society of Entrepreneurs (CASE);
President, Association of Chinese Computer Professionals, USA (ACCP)

An overseas Chinese American professional on Wall Street and Silicon
Valley for over a decade, Dr. Andy Dai is experienced in US/China
business and economical environments and well informed of Overseas
Chinese Returnees (Haigui) startups in China. In the past years, Andy
has been a frequent speaker on various business and technology
conferences in US and China as well as on US/NY Chinese-Media TVs'
financial programs. Besides, he has also been a financial and business
columnist for several newspapers and magazines in the US and China. As
Chairman and Founding President of Chinese American Society of
Entrepreneurs (CASE) since June 2001 and President of Association of
Chinese Professionals, USA (ACCP) since 2003, Andy has been invited to
lead many delegations to visit high-tech parks and put various efforts
in promoting/participating Sino-US entrepreneurships that have
resulted in 100+ startups in China founded among CASE people. In 2000
and 2001, Andy, along with his team members, won, out of 1000
participants, four final (top 10) awards in business plan competitions
sponsored by McKinsey, Bain and JPMorgan. An immigrant from Nanjing
City of mainland China, Andy went to college at the University of
Science and Technology of China and to graduate schools in the US at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stanford
University, majoring in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and
Finance, etc., and has been working in Citigroup, Morgan Stanley,
AT&T, etc. as well as Silicon Valley startups since mid 1990s.

Map and Directions:
Directions: Take subway A, B, C, D, 1, or 9 and get off at 59th
Street, Columbus Circle Station. Walk one block and a half west to the
center of 60th Street between Columbus Ave and 10th Ave. Enter the
Fordham Univ. McMahon Hall and the room 109 is the first classroom on
the right. The security is on the left if you have any questions.

REGISTRATION:
1. You may send an email to Dr. Shane Wang at  shn_wang@yahoo.com  to
register (with your name, email and phone number, and number of
attendees if you come with friends);
or
2. go to ChineseTeaTime website to register (chineseteatime.us)