StartupsHK Blog
Archived content from StartupsHK, the community that helped build Hong Kong's startup ecosystem. Explore the history, interviews, and stories from the early days of the GBA tech scene.
An Annual Membership With Apple’s Joint Venture Program Can Make Starting Up Easier
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Apple-Joint.png) Getting your startup off the ground can be tricky business. Instead of having your tech-savvy people handling the IT troubleshooting, you’d p...
Top 5 Hong Kong Bitcoin Startups To Watch
In the past couple months, the Bitcoin space in Hong Kong has been teeming with competition, with Bitcoin Group HK launching the city’s first ATM on Friday. According to the SCMP, Bitcoin exchange ANX...
UX-Men Monthly: What Are Dark Patterns and How Startups Can Avoid Them?
This is a guest post from senior usability consultantAda Yuen and she examines what Dark Patterns mean from the end user and business owner point of view. According to DarkPatterns.org, Dark Patterns ...
12 Hong Kong E-Commerce Startups You Should Know
With its low internet censorship and peak broadband speeds, Hong Kong’s has a highly developed infrastructure for eCommerce startups. Combine that with a population obsessed with shopping, convenience...
Constant Tedder’s The Hive Expands Co-Workspace Empire Into Kennedy Town
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Hive1.png) Yet another co-working space has arrived in Hong Kong. This time it’s a Kennedy Town version of Wan Chai’s The Hive. Just two years ago, founder Co...
5 Questions With Jason Ngan, Co-Founder of NYC and Hong Kong Startup Bindo
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jason-Ngan.jpg) Retail platform Bindo is a cloud-based inventory indexing tool that brings merchants online through an iPad Point-of-Sale system. A NYC startu...
What’s New At NEST: CEO and Angel Investor Simon Squibb Gives Us a Full Update
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Simon-Squibb.jpg) NEST, Hong Kong’s people-focused investment incubator, is a local driving force in developing Hong Kong as a global hub. With a track record...
What’s New At NEST: CEO and Angel Investor Simon Squibb Gives Us a Full Update
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Simon-Squibb.jpg) NEST, Hong Kong’s people-focused investment incubator, is a local driving force in developing Hong Kong as a global hub. With a track record...
Hong Kong Government Steps Up Support for Hong Kong Startups with Launch of iStartup@HK Portal
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/iStartup1.png) Over the last one and a half year or so, startups started to appear on the radar of the Hong Kong government. Slowly a realisation started that...
Hong Kong Government Steps Up Support for Hong Kong Startups with Launch of iStartup@HK Portal
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/iStartup1.png) Over the last one and a half year or so, startups started to appear on the radar of the Hong Kong government. Slowly a realisation started that...
Who Will Represent Hong Kong Startups at Echelon 2014? Find Out at the e27 Satellite Tomorrow at Paperclip!
Ready for Hong Kong Satellite tomorrow night? We’re partnering with tech blog e27 to host Echelon Hong Kong Satellite, a pitching event preliminary to this year’s Echelon. Satellites are pitch events ...
All Hong Kong Startups are Invited to the IBM Cloud Event on 17 March at Four Seasons
As a home-grown entrepreneur-led business, do you know you can leverage cloud to scale up your business into a global operation? Join the free IBM Cloud Event 2014 on March 17 to hear more real case e...
Allison Baum Talks About Her New Role As Fresco Capital Advisors’ Newest Managing Director
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GA012-1.jpeg) Alongside the wisdom Hong Kong startup scene pioneers have to impart, those relatively new to the ecosystem also bring disruptive ideas and much...
Hong Kong Property Platform Spacious.hk Raises US$500k in Seed Funding
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2013-12-30-at-3.30.27-pm.png) Hong Kong startup Spacious has stepped in to fill the gap in Hong Kong’s market for a property platform with a great...
Following StartWareHK’s First Meetup, Get To Know 3 Hong Kong Hardware Startups
Hong Kong’s new hardware startup meet-up StartWareHK met for the first time ever yesterday. Hosted by active hardware startup founders Julian Lee of Ambi Climate, Jon Buford of Makible and Martin Kess...
Meet the 5 Newest Additions to Startbase.HK, Hong Kong’s Startup Directory
Startbase.HK, our daily-updated directory for Hong Kong’s ecosystem, which is a new and powerful resource for those looking to get connected to startups and people in Hong Kong – whether it’s that fou...
Prelude to StartWareHK: Why Hardware Startups Matter to Hong Kong (Again)
PhoneJoy and StartWareHK co-founder Martin Kessler provides this final guest post that leads to tomorrow’s very first start-up hardware meet-up in Hong Kong. This week, my team’s project Phonejoy is f...
3 Hong Kong Founders to Watch: Meet Julian Lee of Ambi Climate, Steven Lam of GoGoVan and James Giancotti of Bigcolors
There are lots of cool startups listed on our startup directory. In support of the startup community and all of its brilliant and industrious founders – we wanted to give them an editorial shout out. ...
3 Hong Kong Founders to Watch: Meet Julian Lee of Ambi Climate, Steven Lam of GoGoVan and James Giancotti of Bigcolors
There are lots of cool startups listed on our startup directory. In support of the startup community and all of its brilliant and industrious founders – we wanted to give them an editorial shout out. ...
5 Questions With Florence Coirier Giraudon, Founder of BuyMeDesign
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/florence.jpg) Having worked in the design industry for many years as a designer and account director for various agencies, Florence launched the first design ...