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I'll be in NYC on Monday night to kick off our first of a series of Chinese style business banquet dinners we're planning on doing in major cities this summer.

*still space available, feel free to RSVP here.

Idea started off as a totally social thing for getting China biz friends and contacts in NYC together while my biz partner Janet and I were in town for meetings. Janet is good friends with the owner of Grand Harmony Palace in Chinatown and we thought we'd open it up to inviting those in our network and their friends of friends interested in China business to join us for dinner.

Just as suspected, there is a demand for those involved in China business who are based in cities like NY to connect with each other. Another reason for why I love what I'm trying to create right now. The local chapters in the next phase of our growth is meant to connect the international dots on who's doing business in China so folks have the opportunity to expand their contacts and thus expand their opportunities in doing business there.

At the same time, it turns out that Nick Zhang, the former CEO of Linktone and Mobile2Win had just moved back from China and settled in NY himself. Now here's a guy who gets China and has been successful as CEO of a company that went public and sold his other company recently to Disney. Given that a lot of folks were still new to the China learning curve we thought it'd be great to have him speak about "Understanding The Chinese Business Mindset".

Looks like it was well received gauging from the response of RSVPs we've gotten so far...

*Warning, severe name dropping ahead. LOL.*

Chairman, Stone Drum Capital
CEO, Venturebank China
CEO, eChinaCash
CEO, Blue Lotus Group
CEO, VisualCV
Managing Partner, Law Office of Bart S. Fisher
Founder, Global Sourcing Council
Sr VP Corporate Strategy & Business Development, TicketsNow.com
Director, Tekworks
Global Digital Media Director, MTV Networks
International Recording Artist, Che'Nelle
Global Assets Manager, Merrill Lynch

*End name dropping, begin special Twitter shoutout*

Very excited by the turnout of RSVPs so far. Including those of my friends on Twitter, a good few who I'll be meeting in RL for the first time after all these months of tweeting.

@pishba, @djsircharles, @postonrick, @tlimongello, @davidavdavid, @golfgirl, @chrisathompson

Charge your mobile phones for some live tweeting of the full course traditional Chinese dinner and see you on Monday night! :D

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