Residence Beijing, China Website Plus Eight Star | Nationality French Name Benjamin Joffe | |
Occupation Entrepreneur and Speaker Profiles | ||
benjamin joffe at tedxtaipei 2014
Benjamin Joffe is a leading expert on Asia's digital scene and pioneer of the Lean Hardware movement. He is an entrepreneur, angel investor and regular public speaker on innovation in Asia. He has keynoted and moderated at over 200 conferences across 23 countries on topics such as mobile and web business models, innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia. Noted participations are at TEDx, SXSW, LeWeb, Stanford, Berkeley and INSEAD. Benjamin is currently General Partner of the hardware startup accelerator HAXLR8R ("HAX").
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- benjamin joffe at tedxtaipei 2014
- Benjamin joffe haxlr8r the makers leweb 14 paris
- Biography
- Angel Investing
- References
Joffe coined the terms of "Innovation Arbitrage", "Digital Darwinism" and the concept of "5C's of Innovation" (Copy, Combination, Competition, Constraints, Context). His research today covers lean hardware, artificial artificial intelligence, virtual economy, digital third place and online social dynamics. Joffe was selected among China’s Top 100 mobile industry influencers in 2007 and 2008 as founder of Mobile Monday in Beijing.
Benjamin joffe haxlr8r the makers leweb 14 paris
Biography
Benjamin Joffe was born in France and graduated with a MS in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and a MS in Acoustics from Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Joffe also studied Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese and has been living in Japan, Korea and China since 2000 and is one of the most respected experts about Asia's digital space.
Before founding his consultancy +8* | Plus Eight Star in 2003, he was a technology consultant in Tokyo, a mobile market analyst covering Japan & Korea at France Telecom, and a Mobile sns pioneer with NewtGames in Japan and Korea. He is the founder and CEO of +8* | Plus Eight Star, a strategy and research consultancy specializing in mobile and internet innovation in Japan, Korea and China. Benjamin is a partner in the 3D social gaming startup, CMUNE, which was featured at Le Web Paris 2008, Infinity Ventures Summit in Japan and GDC 2010. Last, he is the co-founder of the Mobile Monday forum in Beijing, which he runs monthly since 2006.
Joffe has been quoted in numerous media such as Forbes, CNN, IHT, The New York Times, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and more. He has spoken in over 150 public events (e.g. TEDxSaoPaulo, Ad-Tech, Media 08, O'Reilly GSP, International Telecommunication Union Asia, Open Web Asia etc.), conferences and public and private workshops including at Stanford and Berkeley.
Angel Investing
Benjamin is an active angel investor with a particular focus on global startups from Asia. Among his investments are Cmune, an online gaming company based in China and makers of Uberstrike, a popular first-person shooter with over 10 million players; Gengo (formerly MyGengo) a "Mechanical Turk for translations". Both companies raised funding from Skype's founders investment firm Atomico. Benjamin is also an investor in TokyoOtakuMode, TenderTree, TwitMusic, YoGoMe, StoryPanda and PayrollHero.