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I'm on the board of italki, a global language learning community with 3,000+ teachers and 500,000 users and we recently launched a language learning marketplace where independent teachers and tutors can find students and vice versa. We focus on la...
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- William Bao Bean
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Softbank China & India Holdings
William has been a partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm that is backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco and focused on the technology, media and telecom sectors, since March 2007. William began his investment career 12 years ago as a technology analyst in Taiwan. Most recently at Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia as well as China technology including telecom equipment, Internet, media, PCs, display, handsets and software. Prior to this, he covered Telecom Equipment and Digital Media companies with Banc of America Securities in San Francisco. William also worked as an associate analyst with the team covering PCs, Enterprise Hardware, Handhelds, Storage and Semiconductors at Bear Stearns in New York.
In 2006 he was ranked #3 All-Asia analyst for Technology/Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine Asia. In 2005, he was ranked #1 stock picker in Technology, Media and Telecom, and #3 overall for Hong Kong/China by Forbes/SCMP/Starmine as well as was a ranked analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine Asia. William is a regular presenter at industry conferences and has authored a number of white papers including: The Digital Home Handbook - Intelligence At The Edge and China Internet WVAS - The Second Coming. He currently sits on the boards of advisors/directors for companies including Punch Entertainment, SRT, Radiance, Massive Impact, Naiscorp - Socbay, Peacesoft - Chodientu, IVIVI, iTalki and the Music Matters and ad:tech China conferences. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.
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italki language tutoring marketplace - what do you think?
I'm on the board of italki, a global language learning community with 3,000+ teachers and 500,000 users and we recently launched a language learning marketplace where independent teachers and tutors can find students and vice versa. We focus on language exchange which is the opposite of an education game…you are talking to a real person in the other end and it’s a lot more engaging than a machine. If users want to go to the next level they can find a professional teacher and tutor on the site an… Continue
Posted on July 30, 2009 at 2:22am —
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