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Nishant Kapoor, Director of PetProject.HK and a busy dog owner, found that it was very inconvenient to keep a pet if you did not have any time or had limited access to a pet shop. Therefore he started...
We love Dave – we love him as a speaker, we love his slide-deck even though we’ve seen it a hundred times – but if he missed him in Hong Kong last week at the oversold event at CoCoon – they filmed th...
Get ready for Hong Kong’s signature World Internet Developer Summit! Hosted by Internet Society Hong Kong, Cyberport, and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the action-packed two-day ...
StartLab, the first bootcamp in Hong Kong targeted at tertiary students and graduates and supported by six universities, unveiled the event at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 1 June 2013. Orga...
Zoolook invited about 25 of their top bloggers and fashion influencers to a Fashion Live Snap event at the Apple Store in Causeway Bay. They asked Stephenie Kay, a fashion Polaroid photographer to sna...
Fashion and apps go together like Louis Vuitton and a Hong Kong Tai Tai’s, just ask Benoit Lavaud, the founder of Zoolook. Benoit worked for 3 years in the LVMH group, then 12 years in the L’Oreal gro...
Lots of news links across the media today – here are a few of the highlights this week: Startup Scenes Across Asia: Let’s Look At 11 Of Asia’s Top Tech Cities from TechInAsia.com. Hong Kong tech start...
We always get requests from startups to find designers – well here we go: tech startup meet design startup: a match made in heaven. Sean Okihiro, founder of Kobo Design here in Hong Kong has always be...
You know when the rain hits hard, and you can’t get a taxi? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could book one in advance where its not just a taxi, but also a cool driver? Well looks like it’s happening here ...
The Hive asks: Is it an Invention or an Innovation? Either or, “Concept Lab” will allow you to present your concept with given feedback from people who can think like your customers. This can be from ...
We’ve held lots of events in Hong Kong for entrepeneurs now its time to start inspiring the youth of Hong Kong – and StartLab Hong Kong is going to do this from June 1-8th. StartLab Hong Kong (www.sta...
Congrats to Viss – a social media fashion app for iOS and Android based out of Hong Kong and created by Leo Ku. Viss tells us they have raised seed capital from new angel group 8 plus and will be usin...
We were lucky to have Buffer co-founders Joel Gascoigne and Leo Widrich here in Hong Kong right after they raised this money in late 2011, and to share their experiences growing their social media too...
> UPDATE: Please note that due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, the event featuring Dave McClure, Founding Partner at 500 Startups has been changed from its original Thursday evening time slot to...
A star studded line-up for Echelon 2013 and we sincerely hope that if you missed Startup Asia in March that Echelon 2013 is on your calendar for June. Our friend and founder-in-spirit Dave McClure wil...
Congrats to Mikaal and Mathias at 8 Securities for having CBS MoneyWatch cover their amazing success in such a short time: > “8 Securities believes its technology gives them a cost, scale and speed ad...
With only one real accelerator program in Hong Kong (AcceleratorHK focusing mainly on mobile startups, ChinaAccelerator in Dalian and JFDI in Singapore) where is a startup based in Hong Kong to go for...
IGDA Hong Kong is hosting the city’s game industry for a night of networking and being social. Come represent your game or meet the people making the games that you are playing on the MTR every mornin...
Paul Orlando and Stephen Forte are putting together a series of weekly workshops at The Good Lab from May 15 to June 21 on early stage development for startups – the 4-week series will include each of...
Time flies in Hong Kong when you’re in the Hong Kong startup scene, and we’re happy to wish The Hive – one of Hong Kong’s leading co-workspaces – a Happy Birthday as they celebrate their first year of...
