Our top 10 posts of 2009 – Venture Hacks
> I really wanted to be a cool cat and make a list of the most popular outgoing links for 2009 —a top 10 list of other people’s posts. But it wasn’t meant to be — we don’t have the Javascript installe...
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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.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts | Fast Company
> > > > > Order Versus Chaos > Duncan Watts’s research tells advertising execs precisely what they don’t want to hear: All their clever (and lucrative!) targeted viral campaigning may ultimately be le...
How to manage a company – Video summary of Awesomely Simply
via holykaw.alltop.com If you only have 10 minutes to learn about managing a company, inspiring employees, and keeping things rolling, check out this video....
New York Startup Movement | Michael Karnjanaprakorn
> What sets New York apart from the rest of the world? New York attracts the most creative, ambitious, and hard-working people into one extremely diverse city. There’s an energy here that can’t be rep...
Cyberport IncuTrain Centre accepts highest ever number of incubatees
via cyberport.hk Cyberport IncuTrain Centre recently admitted the highest ever number of incubatee companies. A record 22 new start-ups were accepted on to the scheme in October and November. This lat...
How Much Does That Customer Cost?
via forentrepreneurs.com This seems to be a pretty well thought out and detailed summary weighing the cost of getting a customer to the profit that is generated by them. This is looking at that next s...
What Startups Can Learn from Lady Gaga
> Reading Niederhoffer’s post I was immediately struck by how much startups can learn from Lady Gaga. Read his full post, but three things in-particular jumed out to me as related to startups: > > 1) ...
Startup Founders Need Visa Love Too
> As we finish up the year, I’m really pleased with the progress the Startup Visa gang is making. I started thinking about, writing, and working on this on 9/10/09 when I wrote the post The Founders V...
Should I market my product right after launch? at Me, Myself and Muziboo
> A Bootstrapper’s Diary > > The big question that awaits us all after we – a 2 or 3 member bootstrapped team – have cranked out enough code to launch a web product is “How do we market it?”. A sensib...
US$5 and 2 hours to make most money? Best team didn’t even use any $ at all.
via Check out more videos at Tones of great speakers and talks there!...
We’re not Japanese and we don’t build cars | Agile Zone
> In 1979 a group > of western dignitaries visited Japan to learn more about the manufacturing > models that had been applied to great success. Konosuke Matsushita, the > president of Matsushita Corpo...
HK Startup Summary 2009
via rexchung.com...
Starting Lean
> Here’s a few good resources to actually learn what Lean Startups are all about. > > A good fast intro: Eric Ries Lean Startup talk at MIT — videos! > The blog, Lessons Learned, by Eric Reis, is all ...
Can a single bottle of soda decimate your company? Absolutely. | VentureBeat
via entrepreneur.venturebeat.com Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers....
Entrepreneurship in Japan and Startup Weekend Tokyo
via fumijp.blogspot.com Woah! What if we did something like this one long-weekend here in Hong Kong! That would be crazy! But an amazing idea that we should pitch to some Chambers to get behind....
Angel investors are becoming the dominant force in consumer internet venture capital
> [](http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2009/12/the-great-abdication-consumer-internet-venture-capital-and-angels.html) > > Bill Burnham, hedge fund manager and former VC: > > > “Angel investor...
Tolo Harbour Business Angel Support Group
via baf.cuhk.edu.hk CUHK is located next to the Tolo Harbour. Over the decades thousands of people have graduated and succeeded in their career. Many of them have become prominent and wealthy alumni o...
Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month
via blog.asmartbear.com This is a good list of questions that you really \should\ be able to answer. If you can’t, probably you are trying to avoid having to deal with a problem....
Comp 101 – Writing User Friendly Content | UX Booth
> Why is content king? We hear about it all the time. The answer is simple, content is a vital part of your website. If your content is not easy to understand and interpret, then you may easily lose y...
What We Can Learn About Pricing From Menu Engineers – GigaOM
> Let’s say that you’re an entrepreneur or general manager about to take a new product to market. How do you price it? Traditional economic theory tells us that the market clearing price is the point ...