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Gama-Townhall
What is it that enabled this 30+ young guy to establish iPartment, a dating social networking site that spreads across China Strait and has over 30 million members? This virtual apartment provides a platform for people to make friends online. It is not only one of the most famous dating sites in Taiwan but successfully made its way to China and became one of the top 3 dating websites there. We invited this young entrepreneur, the chairman of SunFun Info., Ltd, Chang Chia-Ming to share his story of success with us in Gama-Townhall.
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iPartment : http://www.i-part.com.tw
How We Started iPartment
In 2002, a couple of university students gathered together and decided to create their own businesses. One of them, Chang Chia-Ming, was inspired by two books, Biography of Masayoshi Son and Peeling Gamania and decided to explore on his own. iPartment was established and went online in 2003 by these young men. In 2004, after initial fee charge, the cost and benefit was balanced. At the end of the same year, these ambitious young men decided to make their way to China. The CEO of Gamania, Albert, is also an entrepreneur who started from scratch. Chang sees Albert as his idol and Gamania as a company of international bearing. He wrote a letter to Albert in hopes of collaborating with Gamania. Albert, who is generous in guiding younger generation, not only replied his letter but took him for a tour in the machine room of Gamania. Although the collaboration didn’t fall through, they made friends with one another. Albert cares about these young men and gave Chang many suggestions.
In 2005, iPartment became a success in China, the members have been growing continuously. In 2009, the TV series adapted from the website was launched in China and caused quite a sensation. This year, in 2012, the series has launched the 3rd season and still remained the ‘it’ topic! iPartment collaborated with their initial rival, Yahoo! (tw.match.yahoo.com). To this day, the membership has reached 3.5 million in Taiwan and 28 million in China. iPartment has officially registered as an emerging stock.
iPartment was adapted to TV series and filmed in China. After the broadcast of season 1 in 2009, the show created a huge sensation. Season 3 has launched in 2012.
(Source of picture: http://bbs.dahe.cn )
During his university period, Chang often thought about unique or special ideas for new businesses. He turned a topic among friends into action. In the beginning of creating the business, he was met with many difficulties and setbacks, such as company management, HR issue, fierce rivalry from competitors etc. He overcame all these obstacles and made his way in China successfully. Even though the company didn’t grow exponentially, he followed his own pace and explored various innovative ideas to find his niche. He encouraged all who want to create their own businesses to be brave and adventurous, and not be afraid of failure. In doing so, you will be one step closer to success!
eSport 5th Year Champion: Professional Super Cup of TeSL and Mars Cup of TeSL
Professional Super Cup of TeSL (left) and Mars Cup of TeSL (right). Each year the trophy is entrusted with the champion team and is returned to Taiwan eSport League (TeSL) before the next Championship. However, if one team could win three times consecutively, they could retain the Professional Super Cup permanently.
The 5th year of eSports competition, the members of Gama Bear had a brilliant fight. In the 7-ELEVEN Professional eSport competition, they won both the champion titles in S&K: SF, KR and SCII. To share their joy of victory to all Gamanians, Albert personally conferred the trophies: Professional Super Cup of TeSL for S&K and Mars Cup of TeSL for SCII to players of Gama Bear. This glory is forever documented in the history of eSport! Gamanians, please give them the warmest round of applause and we look forward to seeing them winning their next eSport battle!
