Last Thursday, through the invitation on Facebook, I participated my first Web Entrepreneurs @ Haidian Base Event. Although more than half the participants were Chinese, the official communication language was English.

Besides the organizer and several other people, most of the attendees were new to this party. Everybody introduced himself, a guy from US just arrived in Beijing 3 days ago and was brought here through a friend, actually I also brought my friend Frank to this party, he just started a company working on web page games. Nearly 70%+ attendees were entrepreneurs. There’re also people from the VC community, for example a girl named Angela was from SIG VC. When I was introducing myself as the Emerging Business Team lead in China for Microsoft and I was a evangelist, someone in the corner echoed that he worked with EBT in US and was familiar with Don Dodge and Dan’l Lewin. Later I found out that he was Adam Smith, the founder and CTO of Xobni, whose products is an organizer plug-in for Microsoft Outlook email and brings social networking and Web2.0 features to Outlook email. Adam was on a tripl in east Asia and would fly back to US the day after.

It’s the first time in China that I met an entrepreneur from US who worked closely with EBT. I think some time later, there’ll be entrepreneurs showing up in US who have worked with me in China.