About the Author
Victor Tong is the Founder and Chief Evangelizing Officer at Webplus. He authored the Chinese book Angel Investment, published in April 2012 as the first practical guide to startup and Angel Investment in China. He was awarded as one of the Top Ten New Angel Investors in China. Mr. Tong gained his consulting and technical experience at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture; airline accounting system development), American Express Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise Financial; Strategic Technology Planning), 3M (part of Medical Imaging Basic Research Lab), and the Superconductivity Center at the University of Minnesota. In 1994, Mr. Tong founded Talent Information Management ("TIM"), a leading internet software and consulting company in Minnesota. In 1997, Mr. Tong successfully sold GoWeb, the internet consulting division of TIM to Dwight and Vance Opperman's Key Investment. In 1996, the Oppermans sold West Publishing to Thomson Reuters for $3.4B. Mr. Tong then became the President of Opperman's KeyTech. In 1999, he was recognized in "City Business 40 Under 40" as the youngest of the 40 future business and community leaders in Minnesota. After PacificNet was spun off from TIM, it went public as NASDAQ:PACT in 2000. In 1999, TIM sold Web+ to oati.com. TIM later became talentsoft and then reestablished as Webplus. Mr. Tong served as President, then CEO, of PacificNet until 2008. Mr. Tong won the Student Commencement Speaker Award and graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Tong was an adjunct professor at the College of Software of Beihang University, one of the top software colleges in China. He was named as one of the 25 people to watch in a 2008 issue of Global Gaming Magazine, and one of the Top Ten New Angel Investors in China in the 2012 Founder Magazine in China. He has been a frequent speaker at the Las Vegas and Macau G2E and other gaming conferences, and many IPO, backdoor listing, angel investment, venture capital, and entrepreneurship conferences in the U.S. and China, including speeches at Harvard Business School, Wharton School, Stanford University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beihang University, and Sun Yat-Sen University Business Schools. He has a strong public following across Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, where has been hosting 3-hour salons for entrepreneurs and angel investors almost monthly in China since January 2011.
