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.
Hong Kong Co-Working Space Series: Innovation Lab
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/%E8%9E%A2%E5%B9%95%E5%BF%AB%E7%85%A7-2013-10-03-3.31.55-PM.png) Editor’s Note: From this week on, we are going to bring you a series feature reports on all th...
Popular Hong Kong Lifestyle Magazine Gives HK Startups the Cover Treatment: Nest, MakiBox, CoCoon and More Featured
It makes sense to be covered in the South China Morning Post and HK Business but when lifestyle periodicals Time-Out and HK Magazine start covering the startup scene in Hong Kong, it sounds like we’ve...
AngelHack, the Biggest Hackathon on the Planet, Comes to Hong Kong 19-20 October
In a few short weeks the largest Mobile App Hackathon, ever is coming to Hong Kong: AngelHack Fall 2013. Over 30 cities and 6,000 developers will join in to build stronger developer ecosystem around t...
[Event] The OpenStack Summit Is Coming To Hong Kong on 5-8 November
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/slide-1-638-1.jpg) This November the OpenStack Summit will bring together the brightest technical minds to discuss the future of cloud computing on 5-8th, in ...
UPDATED: 25-27 October 2013 – Social Innovation Camp Hong Kong Is Here
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SocialInnovation2.jpg) Social Innovation Camp comes to Hong Kong 25-27th October! Hey, change makers around the city! Startup Hong Kong, Bonza Pie and Softlay...
NEST Pitch Day Is Happening on 28 September
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pitch-day-image.png) Good day startups! How’s everything? Just a reminder to the entrepreneurs who are looking to make their mark in Hong Kong and are interes...
Meet Kitchen Sync, A Culinary Incubator For Food Startups
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bigstock-Kitchen-Background-32954036.jpg) If you’re new to the food business in Hong Kong, you probably find the sky-high costs of setting up a commercially l...
HotelQuickly Closes Series A Funding of 9Million HKD
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bigstock-Funding-Concept-38367892.jpg) This month has witnessed a lot of exciting things in the Hong Kong startup community, today we are thrilled to share an...
Registration Now Open for Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 on 12 Oct – Hong Kong’s Biggest Mobile Startup Conference
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mobilliance-edmfinal-fixed.jpg) We’re happy to open up registration now for Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013. We’re bringing back our wildly popular Startup...
[Event] Cyberport Speaker Series: Fundraising In Silicon Valley
Good news for HK Startups! Next month from 9-11th Oct, Cyberport is bringing a group of VCs to Hong Kong. Part of the event is a Cyberport Speaker Series themed as the “Fundraising in Silicon Valley“....
CoCoon Pitch Series Is Back – Semi-Finals For This Fall 2013
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/jpeg.jpeg) Summer is leaving us, in the coming fall we have new Pitch Events! CoCoon Pitch Night Series is holding its semi-finals for the new season on Septe...
New Social App Worthy Wants To Change The Way You Make Friends Online By Games
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/screen568x568-1.jpeg) Guess who’s featured in US App Store Life Style section main banner#1 as well as the main banners on App Store Home Page in other 13 cou...
A Hong Kong View of the TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 Conference in San Francisco
I just came back from being totally Disrupted! As part of my work with SoftLayer Catalyst I just spent 5 days at the biggest startup event in the world – the TechCrunch Disrupt conference from Sept 7-...
WYND, A New Co-Working Space In Lan Kwai Fong!
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2.jpg) Hi there, I am now writing this post in a spacious sunny room with good coffee and cute potted plants around. Outside the window I can oversee the heri...
Tipping Point Hong Kong Event Overview
If you can get 300+ Hongkongers to take an entire day off work to attend a sell-out conference on innovation then I would hardly say entrepreneurship in this town is dead. On the contrary, it’s alive,...
[Column] Why Do My Good Features Get Low Usage?
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/%E8%9E%A2%E5%B9%95%E5%BF%AB%E7%85%A7-2013-09-09-3.29.22-PM.png) A common question that my clients ask me is: My customers use a few features on my website onl...
Tipping Point Conference Speakers Say Collaboration is Essential to Hong Kong’s Future in Innovation
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSC5966.jpg) Concerned about the future of Hong Kong’s ecosystem, the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong (BPF) gathered thought leaders, inves...
General Assembly Hosts 4th “Intro to the Hong Kong Startup Community” Talk on Sept 5
Just in case you missed it before and want to get an instant snapshot of the Hong Kong Startup Community, StartupsHK co-founder and Community Development Manager for SoftLayer’s Catalyst program in As...
5 Questions With Jono Lilley and Fiona Atkinson, Co-Founders of Colony88.com
There are many intelligent and potentially huge startups in Hong Kong, but they have been restricted to grow and move up by the lack of funding currently available by angel investors locally. Two new ...
Hong Kong Hosts Innovation Conference ‘Tipping Point’ on Sept 6th, Special Price for Startups
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/TPeDM.jpg) An Innovation Conference Tipping Point held by Business Professional Federation (BPF) is just around the corner in the city. This conference is to ...