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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.

SeedStars Worldwide Startup Competition Arriving In Hong Kong: Deadline July 12, Event July 19

From Santiago to Capetown, Dubai to Tokyo, Seedstarsworld is traveling the globe to find the best startup and come July 19th, they will be making their stop in Hong Kong! Get ready entrepreneurs for t...

Startup Founders: Vaughn Hew Wants to Know WhoGotStuff?

Coming from a family where moving is the norm, I can relate to co-founder Vaughn Hew’s practical app of WhoGotStuff, a platform that allows people in Hong Kong to give away items that are no longer in...

Hong Kong Startup Entourage to Visit AppWorks in Taipei July 4-5

6/18/2013 AppWorksTaipei

We’re organzing a small entourage of startups and investors from Hong Kong interested in seeing what’s happening 1-hour away in Taipei. AppWorks will be hosting their demo day on July 5th and we’re no...

Being a Data Driven Entrepreneur with Bridgette Bean at Cocoon

[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2013-06-13-16.37.11.jpg) With all of the data that is available nowadays, it becomes difficult to find the right niche for your product. Consumers are constan...

Geeks in Paradise: Do A Startup in Bali with Change Ventur.es

Wouldn’t it be great to hire a villa in Bali, get a group of social and business entrepreneurs together, invite in mentors, run workshops and organise surf lessons to create a lifetime experience and ...

5 Questions with Nishant Kapoor of PetProject.HK

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...

Full Video of Dave McClure of 500 Startups at CoCoon

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...

Full Video of Dave McClure of 500 Startups at CoCoon

6/7/2013

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...

World Internet Developer Summit 2013 Comes to Hong Kong June 27-28 at Cyberport & Science Park

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 ...

World Internet Developer Summit 2013 Comes to Hong Kong June 27-28 at Cyberport & Science Park

6/7/2013

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 ...

Introducing StartLab.HK – A New Pathway for Young Entrepreneurs in Hong Kong

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...

Introducing StartLab.HK – A New Pathway for Young Entrepreneurs in Hong Kong

6/6/2013

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 Launches its Fashion App in Hong Kong at the Apple Store

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...

5 Questions with Benoit Lavaud of Zoolook

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...

Hong Kong Startup News Roundup: 1 of Asia’s Top Tech Cities

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...

5 Questions with Sean Okihiro of Kobo Design

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...

5 Questions with Jean-Marc Ly, Co-Founder of Taxiwise

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 Launches First ‘Concept Lab’ for Early-stage Startups to Pitch and Get Feedback on June 3

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 ...

StartLab.HK: The First Startup Bootcamp for Tertiary Students is June 1-8 in Hong Kong

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...

StartLab.HK: The First Startup Bootcamp for Tertiary Students is June 1-8 in Hong Kong

5/22/2013

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...