Tony Chan Entrepreneurial portfolio

1. Tony Chan
Entrepreneur portfolio
Excerpt from book “Growth in a difficult decade”, by Mark Dixon of Regus

2. Summary
Profile Professional Entrepreneurial Mentoring
ME I am 43, married with
one daughter. I am bilingual
and multi-cultural. I am
family oriented.
I have experience in
investment banking and
various roles in financial
services.
I have had 2 successful
startups during the dot
com days and just as many
unsuccessful ones.
I actively mentor other
startups through TIE and
have been mentoring at
various competitions and
workshops
Interests Experiences Accolades Startup practices
Weekends are spent
tinkering with websites and
html with some coding. I
tinker also with photography
but spend a lot of time with
the family.
Working in larger
corporate gives me
discipline and
leadership skills as well
as management with
people & larger projects
E-Finet was listed in 2003
in GEM and Fortitude was
sold and exited. The
process taught me a on
the whole evolution of a
startup to exit.
I have developed several
startup methodologies A
Practical Process for
Startups (APSTARTUP) and
STARS Startup Assessment
Rating System

3. Entrepreneurship
APStartup was founded in 2011 as a funding portal for Asia Pacific Startups.
The site has pivoted from direct funding to a toolbox for entrepreneurs
and now private label portals for other startup organizations. Tour , Intro
Video and slides
E-Finet was an early dot com financial media company founded in 1999, I
joined in 2000 to help them raise series A of USD3m from GE Capital and
Readers Digest. The company listed on GEM in 2009. My role was Business
Development Director and board director.
Fortitude Securities was HK’s first online trading system which won clients
in banking and local brokers. The company was sold to a HK brokerage
backed by Chinese investors.
In 2008 I purchased and ran a small online business reselling iTunes gift
cards, offering parallel online US iTunes credits to international consumers.
This was a very profitable business but did not comply with Apple’s strict
end user agreements and thus was voluntary closed down.
Fortitude
Securities

4. Mentoring
SnapShop
• Mentor for SnapShop . First prize in TIE HK Student Business
Plan competition. Runner up in Asia TIE Student business plan
competition
SOLARIS – HKUST competition winner
Mentor for Solaris. First prize in HK University Science and Technology
“The 1 million dollar business plan competition”
HOME CHEF
Social Enterprise competition entry – SOW Asia

5. Mentoring (2)
Social Credits
Runner up in Tech X Social enterprise competition
my own entry and contribution to social entrepreneurship
Neomechanics
Local engineering startup with hardware IP
mentored CEO and team extensively
Mentor to PolyUMicroFund incubates
Assisted in judging panel of local competitions

6. Ecosystem engagement
TIE charter member and mentor
Mentored over 10 startup companies
Organized local startup events in HK
Participated and led delegations to TIE
Silicon Valley and Delhi conferences
Built www.tieprojects.hk
– Member of TEN entrepreneur organization
– Builwww.tenprojects.hk
– Invited by InvestHK to participate in UK
roadshow
– Presentation and panel discussion

7. Strategy and Planning
• APPS for Startups
– A Practical Process for Startups
– Create, Plan, Build and Promote your startup
– Build on open source software
– Apps for Startups - presentation
STARS
Startup Assessment Review System
A benchmark rating system for startups
Discussion Paper – Startup Assessment Rating System
PitchVote
A simple voting app for audiences to vote on pitches
www.pitchvote.com ( in development)

8. Social Enterprise projects
Concept - A donor and consumer rewards scheme
and alternative currency for doing good. 2nd prize in
E2X social enterprise business plan. Social Credits
Presentation slides
Social Enterprise entry for Cathy Pacific
Round The World ticket competition
Youtube video entry
Setup and ran an online fundraiser campaign to raise
funds to save a friend’s daughter. Amara is a tour guide
from Mongolia I befriended. When I learned his
daughter needed heart surgery for a defective heart in
Germany, I offered to help. We setup a live streaming
online concert and auction to raise funds to save
Amara’s daughter. See youtube video