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Building a Startup - From Idea to Business

Startup Series at Agora Space: Entrepreneur Panel 

An impressive lineup of entrepreneurs will share the fundamentals to build a successful startup and how to avoid common mistakes 

70% of startups don't last the first year and 90% close down in the second year, so how do people do it? Entrepreneurs are making a lot of mistakes, most of the time they are the same mistakes over and over again. We created this event as part of Agora Space’s startup series so that successful entrepreneurs can share their stories and mistakes so that you know how to avoid similar traps.

SPEAKERS

Alex Duncan 

Co-Founder & Product Lead at KAWO

Alex is Co-Founder and Product Lead at KAWO, a leading social media management platform for brands and agencies in China. He co-founded KAWO 4 years ago, leading the design and writing the front-end code for the first 18 months. With an expanded team, he now acts as product lead and evangelist to drive further growth for the company.

Originally from England, Alex has spent 10 years living in China and has a passion for user experience backed up by a broad and strong skill set in design & technology. 

Olivia Cotes-James 

Founder & CEO at LUÜNA naturals 

Olivia is the Founder and CEO at LUÜNA naturals, a female-led period care brand with a mission to enhance the lives of women and girls across Greater China. Starting up LUÜNA naturals 3 years ago, Olivia had a visionary approach to women’s health and wellness. Through healthy natural products and honest education, her company now empowers women all around China with positive period experiences.

Brian Tam 

Founder & CEO at Let’s Make Great!

Having founded Let’s Make Great!, an independent consultancy in 2013, Brian guides multinational companies in China to systematically create the future and explore uncertainties. 

Born in New York, and proudly raised in New Jersey, Brian has been in China since 2007, working to drive the fantastic change that is happening in China and the rest of the world.

PRICE

• 80 RMB - including fresh homemade pizza

• 60 RMB - early bird price

• FREE for Agora Space members

AGENDA

18:45 - 19: 20: Check in +Pizza

19:20 - 20:20: Panel

20:20- 21:00: Q&A

ORGANIZER

Agora Space is a unique coworking space that serves as an incubator for early stage startups and communities. We help you grow your business, your network and your skills in one, very creative, space. Join our incubator and coworking space and start your growth journey in Shanghai

CO-ORGANIZERS

KAWO is WeChat and Weibo management platform headquartered in Shanghai. The first version of KAWO translated posts from a brand's Facebook and Twitter accounts for easy publishing on Chinese social media platforms. Realising translation alone was an insufficient business model, the Company pivoted to become a management platform. Since then, KAWO has grown to become the #1 platform for global brands building a social presence in China, with thousands of posts being published for some of the top brands in the world on a weekly basis.

LUÜNA, a female-led company that enhances the lives of women and girls through purposeful period care. They make chemical-free products, provide taboo-free knowledge and support period education for those in need. With a drive for women empowerment, the Company gives a portion of all profits to menstrual health education initiatives in Asia, providing the necessary support to create genuine change. By working with female-led, female-focused initiatives, they aim to deepen their impact. 

Let’s Make Great! is a creative consultancy focused on the next 100 years of innovation in China. As a cross-disciplinary team of strategists, designers, and innovators, their passion and specialty is guiding corporate teams to systematically solve ‘first time ever’ challenges. In 2017, the Company’s original card game, PROTO, was successfully funded on Kickstarter.com, manufactured and distributed to over 20 countries.

Coderbunker is an international community that helps talented developers grow into successful freelancers with their own personal brand. We connect freelancers with customers by helping customers find the right resource at the right price at the right time. Through our community branding, we’ve generated hundreds of such opportunities in the last year.

COMMUNITY PARTNER

At weHustle, our mission is to foster the highest quality pool of innovators in China. In order to achieve this, we connect like-minded international professionals who are passionate about innovation. We provide a platform for hustlers, those who aim to accelerate their personal growth and build networks around startups, scaleups and corporates. Essentially, the weHustle platform is designed to be an innovation and community building service that encourages entrepreneurship in China.

Drinks by Highlite

Highlite is a premium sparkling beverage based on Argentianian Yerba-Mate tea.

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