Title: Starting a business is the new MBA

Time: 1:20 pm - 2:50 pm, 2015/12/22 (Check-in: 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm)

Place: International Conference Hall, MIRC, National Chiao Tung University

Speaker: Jamie Lin

【Speaker's Biography】

Jamie Lin is the Founding Partner of AppWorks, which launched its Taipei-based accelerator program in 2010 to help Internet startups optimize their products and business strategies. Every six months, AppWorks Accelerator recruits 30 promising startups working in mobile internet, internet of things, and other rapidly growing areas. With over 250 startups in its alumni network to date, the AppWorks ecosystem is the largest of its kind in Asia. Star alumni include EZTABLE, Tagtoo, CHOCOLABS, UrAd, and many more. AppWorks also manages a total of US$61 million in VC funds. It leads seed and Series A rounds for its startups, investing US$100K to 5M and aligning co-investors based on their needs.

Jamie has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the National Taiwan University. His life as an entrepreneur began during his college years, when he co-founded his first company - Hotcool, a B2C computer retail website - with classmates in 1999. Hotcool is now Intumit, a leading provider of Chinese-language big data solutions. In 2006, Jamie co-founded travel social network Sosauce with his friends in New York; two years later, the company pivoted to become 3D game production house Muse Games.

※ The speech will be conducted in English. The admission is free of charge but registration is required (limited to 200 seats). Everyone is welcome. 

※ Registration website: http://goo.gl/forms/6LyyZqZ60Z

※ Contact person: Ms. Yang, (03) 5712121, Ext. 54832

※ Organizers: College of CS, NCTU and MOST Project Office of “Development and Applications of Advanced Communications Networking Technologies"