Its been a long ride, and we at Social Agent still have quite a ways to go, but these kind of startup celebrations make it all worthwhile! Chris, Doug, and I made it down from Shenzhen and Hong Kong to Singapore (my first time there) to host a booth at the Startup Asia event and also pitch at the Startup Arena.
We were featured in Tech in Asia here http://www.techinasia.com/socialagentme-helps-sense-business-chinese-social-media/
I always enjoy how editors and others outside of our team read our business model, it was explained well:
SocialAgent.me is an online lead generation tool to help businesses find leads in the Chinese market. Based between Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong with a mix of Americans, Chinese, Canadians, they help western companies have a better chance of success in the Chinese market through leveraging Chinese social media.
Our model is a monthly subscription plan with additional lead generation packages,” says co-founder Michael Michelini. “We’re also working on live online sales workers to boost their chances of finding quality prospects.”
We are excited to be one of the 20 startups representing startups in Asia, and we were really impressed with the quality of teams there. While we didn’t take home a prize, we signed new clients for our software, and have a handful of good investor prospects for our funding round.
About Startup Asia Event
You can read the full details via – http://startupasia.techinasia.com/sg2013/ but here is a quick excerpt:
Organized by TechinAsia.com, Startup Asia is a 2-day conference organized for entrepreneurs, investors, media, and people across the Asian tech community.
– Insightful speakers
– Quality startups and investors across Asia
– Honest content about the industry
Audience breakdown in 2012: Founders/Developers: 512, Investors: 158, MNC Rep: 148, Students: 49, Media: 32