Casey talks to Arthur Chow, co-founder of 6WAVES one of Asia’s most successful mobile game publishers about starting a game company in Asia, the differences between from Facebook and mobile games, competing with the game titans of Japan and an interesting perspective on forgetting about the China market. Show notes: 6WAVES: www.6waves.com Esports in HK: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2084454/hong-kong-lured-table-global-game-billions-grabs Arthur on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurchow/

This week Casey talks to Fritz Demopoulos of Queens Road Capital an early stage startup funding investing in China and South East Asia technology companies. We talk about exiting Qunar.com, building a startup in China when you’re the only white guy on the team and how he doesn’t mind if you pitch him your startup idea in the toilet. Show notes Queen’s Road Capital: http://queensroadcapital.com/ Qunar: https://www.qunar.com Fritz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fritzdemopoulos MelonHK: https://melonhk.com/

In this week's RISEcast, we feature the audio version of the Runway to RISE: Hong Kong event held at Blueprint on April 27, 2017. 7 HK startups pitch for the 2 spots on the BREAKTHROUGH stage at RISE with 1 winner going to Web Summit! Plus “What is RISE?” and “5 Ways to hack RISE” Watch it live: https://www.facebook.com/RISEConfHQ/videos/783667348456445/ Blueprint: http://blueprint.swireproperties.com/ BeFastTV: https://befast.tv/ The next Runway to RISE events: https://riseconf.com/runway-to-rise Get into the RISE Alpha programme: https://riseconf.com/startups/alpha Startups: Design Jar: www.designjar.com Ibebot: wwwibebot.com Silentmode: www.silentmode.com Mob Mob: www.yoswit.com GROM: www.getgrom.com De-Own: www.de-own.com Minor MynasL: www.minormynas.com