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.
All You Need to Know About Startup Events in Hong Kong in January 2013
Our newsletter for January 2013 is out – click here to see it. Click here to subscribe Highlights: PITCH CLUB JAN 7 Practice your pitch for pitching to investors and at our upcoming event. THE UX-MEN ...
JFDI Accelerator Last Call for February Class Applications in Singapore
JFDI.Asia through its flagship seed accelerator program takes teams of entrepreneurs from idea to investment in 100 days. Adapted from the accelerator model pioneered by Y Combinator and Techstars in ...
StartupHug.com: Give your local Hong Kong startups a hug!
Many of us have been there. A soft-launched product with no one to test it on. We’ve already called in favors from our significant others and close friends, and yet we still need more data, more feedb...
Make a Difference Mixer Welcomes Silicon Valley and European VC and Angels on January 24
StartupsHK supports the MaD Venture Fellows Programme. In addition to the MaD Ventures Salon targeting the business/investing community, they are organising a MaD Mixer on 24 Jan (6.00-8.30pm) for the...
Holger Bartel Kicks Off First #UXMen with Great Talk on Responsive Web Design
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/IMG2293.JPG.scaled1000.jpg) We were very lucky to have Holger Bartel (@Foobartel) come in and talk about Resposive Web Design at our first UX-Men event at The...
SCMP Looks At Hong Kong’s Angel Investment Scene
The South China Morning Post has published Tiffany Ap’s story on Angel Investment in their Monday, 10 December 2012 edition that we’ve copy-and-pasted here – you can read the story with photos here. [...
SCMP Looks At Hong Kong’s Angel Investment Scene
The South China Morning Post has published Tiffany Ap’s story on Angel Investment in their Monday, 10 December 2012 edition that we’ve copy-and-pasted here – you can read the story with photos here. [...
The Good Lab: Hong Kong’s Newest Social Enterprise Co-Workspace
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/IMG2059.JPG.scaled1000.jpg) Opened just 2 months ago is Hong Kong’s newest co-workspace The Good Lab (www.goodlab.hk) which is 20,000 square feet in Cheung Sh...
New Meetup: Calling all mobile developers in HK, you are wanted for the Mobilliance on Dec 17
We’re bringing all mobile developers and startups together for a night of talks, sharing and demos on Dec 17 in Wan Chai: on this day Mobilliance Hong Kong is born! If you’re developing for iOS, Andro...
New Meetup: THE UX-MEN! Assembling the very best UX/UI/Designers Together on Dec 11
Together with IXDA HK we’ve set up a new monthly Startup Monday called THE UX-MEN – this is the first one of an ongoing meet-up – so if you are a startup and want to know more about UX/UI then sign up...
Vote for FilmSkout.com – winner of Hong Kong’s Startup Weekend – in the Global Battle
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG1523.JPG.scaled1000.jpg) Hong Kong brought the gold home last year as Startup Weekend HK 2011 entrant AFTERSHIP.COM won the global battle – so lets support...
TEDxHongKong is all about the Future of Fun on November 24
We’re extremely happy to announce that we are a sponsor of TEDxHongKong 2012 that will take place on 24 November at 633 Kings Road, Quarry Bay. Please join us as we talk about “The Future of Fun”, as ...
The Newest Hong Kong Incubator: The Next Nest Monthly Pitch Day is November 24
The founder of Fluid – one of Hong Kong’s leading digital agencies – also runs the Nest incubator in Sheung Wan, is now opening the doors to new startups to come in and pitch and get a chance at HK$50...
Lessons Learned: Patrick Lee Throws Some Rotten Tomatoes At Your Startup
On October 24th as a part of the CoCoon Entrepreneurial Series, CoCoon hosted Patrick Lee to speak about his experiences with Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is a leading entertainment website that r...
SoftLayer Speaker Series presents Chris Lee, CTO & Co-Founder of 6Waves
We’re very excited to host Chris Lee from 6Waves and George Karidis from SoftLayer for 1 night only at CoCoon. Want to know how one of the biggest Facebook game publishers got started? How to use clou...
Outblaze Founder Talks the Future of Mobile, Going Global and the Power of Android at #StartClub
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG1064.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) An amazing night of sharing as StartupsHK co-founder Daniel Cheng (@danielhitome) interviewed arguably Hong Kong’s most famous tec...
StartupsHK presents Sal Virani of LeanCamp on November 1 at The Hive
Details and registration page are here:...
You’re Invited to an Investment Workshop for Early Stage Startups On November 15 at Science Park
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sciencepark.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) Organzied by the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park comes InnoAsia 2012 – a full 4-day conferences on innovation for green an...
You’re Invited to an Investment Workshop for Early Stage Startups On November 15 at Science Park
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sciencepark.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) Organzied by the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park comes InnoAsia 2012 – a full 4-day conferences on innovation for green an...
TiE Launches in Hong Kong with Meet-and-Greet at CoCoon
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG0854.JPG.scaled1000.jpg) On October 19, TiE held a small meet-and-greet at the CoCoon co-workspace in Tin Hau to introduce the concept and to kick off thei...