Seth Godin’s The Bootstrapper’s Bible
[](/startupshk/seth-godins-the-bootstrappers-bible) 8.01.BootstrappersBible.pdf Download this file Seth Godin is one of my idol's – his Purple Cow philosophy should be read twice by everyone in Hong K...
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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.
Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University
via eweek.stanford.edu This could be a good reference for topics we could use during meetups. I wish I could be there to attend these open sessions....
Lean Usability Testing: Current Best Practices and Resources | A State Space Traveler
> After my first post%u2019s philosophical bent, here%u2019s something specifically targeted at startups. In preparation for a team meeting to discuss our usability testing strategy, I assembled every...
Founder Institute Now International, Launches In Singapore, Paris, LA, And Denver
> Adeo Ressi’s > > Founder Institute > > is going international. This Spring, the startup mentorship program will be expanding to Singapore, Paris, Los Angeles, and Denver, meaning that the Founder In...
How to Engage Your Customers to Take Action Online
Every online business owner knows what it takes to run a successful business: not only popularity but increased revenue through high-quality traffic and conversions. Optimizing the customer’s experien...
Happy Chinese New Year!
[](http://www.zulva.com/images/chinesenewyear/?page=1) Chinese New Year graphics comment Wish everyone have good year....
Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose
Here is one of my tech. and entrepreneur idol, Kevin Rose If you are building consumer web startup, you should take a look of this video. Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose f...
Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder – The Metamorphosis
> February 11, 2010 > > Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder > > I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely ...
Five compensation-related mistakes startups make (and should avoid) | VentureBeat
> [](http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/money2.jpg) > > Compensation-related pitfalls can be easily avoided if you know what to look out for. Once made, though, these five mistakes can ...
How to Bootstrap Your Business
> Back to articles > > How to Bootstrap Your Business > > Bootstrapping, the act of avoiding external investors, means going solo in the financing department, all the while keeping expenses to a minim...
Are Businesses in Hong Kong Lagging Behind in IT-Driven Innovation?
[](http://blog.pandaform.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/innochart.jpg) Some afterthoughts about the ICT and Business Innovation Seminar by Samson Tam, a local entrepreneur and a legislative councillor...
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015) – Master of 500 Hats
> I’m on a redeye to NYC, supposed to be working on a presentation i’m giving in a few hours… but fuck it, i can’t get this outta my head, so here we go. > > (note: extremely raw, uneven, long, 1st dr...
Hiring Talented Developers in Hong Kong
Just write up an article for our new product blog, sharing our experience of hiring developers for both oursky.com and pandaform.com. Hope it will be useful as a starting point to discuss this common ...
Watch and learn from Loren Brichter the creator of Tweetie
via blog.appsfire.com Since we have a few iPhone app creators in our group this is a great video of Loren talking about how he “fluked out” with Tweetie. I use Tweetie on my iPhone and Desktop – right...
Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom (via @alleyinsider)
> Internet users > > 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009). > 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year. > 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia. > 418,029,796 – Inter...
Role Models
> We can back first-time entrepreneurs and have mentors and role models for them and we have those role models in their second, third, and fourth startups and that’s the magic–that creates a sustainab...
Introducing: Hong Kong Investment Network
via investmentnetwork.hk I found these guys from a Google link in my Gmail 😉...
Radically improving sales for high priced products with 3 characters and a misspelling – This is so Meta
via maxklein.posterous.com...
Terms of Service Generator – General Counsel PC and Legal River
Terms of Service Generator Privacy Policy Generator This is a new service that someone is putting together to help startups with generating the TOS and Privacy Policy that you need on a site. Of cours...
how Zynga (Farmville) uses minimum viable products « Grattisfaction
> Zynga is a social gaming giant. Farmville,their largest game, has more than 69 million monthly active users, making it larger than Twitter. Unlike many companies, Zynga also monetizes these users ef...