I was honored to be asked to speak at the Workshop on Technology Incubation hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) several weeks ago.
In addition to my teaching at NEU, I have met with a number of people involved in supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Vietnam, including venture capitalists, leading entrepreneurs, directors of incubators and government officials. Ryan, an American living in HCMC, was a former student of mine at Case Western Reserve where he completed his law degree last year. In the picture below, you can see Ryan Galloway’s face on my laptop as he joined us by Skype from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) for the class (and our projector was not working in class that day). Most of the speakers have come to our class in person although we have also used Skype to have conversations with business leaders outside of the region.
We have had some excellent guest speakers in the class including Do Tuan Anh, CEO of Appstore.vn, Simon Andrews, IFC Regional Manager, Duc Tran, General Partner, IDG Vietnam Ventures and Ryan Galloway, Vice President, Strategy, MobiVi. The other lecturer for the course, Ha Tung, is a MBA graduate of Washington State University and has been a great partner in delivering a course that looks comparatively at starting businesses and raising investment capital in Vietnam and abroad. I am “team teaching” a course in the EBBA program called “Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation” to 50 Vietnamese undergraduates in their third year of the program. I am primarily working in the NEU Business School with students in the Bachelor of Business Administration in English (EBBA) program although I am also doing occasional lecturing in other departments such as International School of Management and Economics (ISME). It has over 45,000 students across 45 graduate and undergraduate academic programs. I received a Fulbright fellowship to teach this semester at the National Economics University (NEU), one of the leading universities in economics, management and business in Vietnam. Since unfortunately Stacy is not accompanying me to my job teaching entrepreneurship at the National Economics University, the time has come for me to add something to this blog. When I get emails from friends around the world asking how things are going over here, I usually say something like: “it’s great…here is a link to Stacy’s blog to read more.” I hope she continues it once we get home so when people ask me how things are going in Cleveland, I can also just refer them to Stacy’s blog. It has been such a luxury having Stacy documenting our past two months here in Vietnam on this blog.
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