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I’ve spent the last ten years working with some of the most exciting startups, founders, and investors in ‘The Valley’. After two failed startups, one successful exit, eight equity positions as an adv...
I’ve spent the last ten years working with some of the most exciting startups, founders, and investors in ‘The Valley’. After two failed startups, one successful exit, eight equity positions as an adv...
source: @KellyPhotos On April 25th, the worst earthquake in over 80 years struck Nepal, killing over 7,000 people. The death toll continues to rise. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left home...
source: @KellyPhotos On April 25th, the worst earthquake in over 80 years struck Nepal, killing over 7,000 people. The death toll continues to rise. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left home...
With so much attention being paid to startup accelerators over the last several years, entrepreneurs are clamouring to earn a spot in top tier programs as a first step for their startup. Our base city...
With so much attention being paid to startup accelerators over the last several years, entrepreneurs are clamouring to earn a spot in top tier programs as a first step for their startup. Our base city...
In my previous post I explained why we created swapit and what is the idea behind swapit. At the moment, swapit is an invite only beta (request your invite here:) and sometimes I am asked why we are r...
UPDATE: Grouvly will have its invite-only launch party on April 22nd 7-9pm @ a secret location. ~~Here’s how to get an invite.~~ – FULL HOUSE Grouvly’s Co-founder & CEO Camilo Paredes is a young seria...
Tommaso Tamburnotti (pictured on the left, Reuben Philip Abraham centre, Augustin Ceyrac on the right) is a Co-Founder of Easyship, a platform that offers on-demand logistics solution to eCommerce sel...
Almost everything in our life has been impacted by technology that changes the way we do things to be better, faster, cheaper, safer, and smarter—be it in transportation, architecture, communication, ...
Almost everything in our life has been impacted by technology that changes the way we do things to be better, faster, cheaper, safer, and smarter—be it in transportation, architecture, communication, ...
You have an idea, a prototype, you’ve launched an MVP or are now public. Customers are knocking on your door, so are investors…or maybe not. You’re probably planning now to hustle hard and get off the...
You have an idea, a prototype, you’ve launched an MVP or are now public. Customers are knocking on your door, so are investors…or maybe not. You’re probably planning now to hustle hard and get off the...
I just got back to the Valley from a Distro Tour of Asia with a group of mentors from 500 Startups. It sounds glamorous… AND IT WAS. Aside from doing lots of eating, we also helped 60+ companies in Ta...
I just got back to the Valley from a Distro Tour of Asia with a group of mentors from 500 Startups. It sounds glamorous… AND IT WAS. Aside from doing lots of eating, we also helped 60+ companies in Ta...
I’ve either attended, judged or put together so many pitch competitions I thought it would be a good time to share 5 main points on how to win one. Yes, there is a formula and I’ve seen it work on big...
I just recently became a dad to an incredibly adorable baby girl. Several months before our new sunshine was born, my wife assigned the tasks of getting large baby items to me. At the same time, my lo...
Introducing Dennis Grady, founder of Asia Venture Club – a new member to the StartupsHK community. Dennis publishes a podcast on startups and entrepreneurship and we are happy to have him as one of ou...
I remember Startup Mondays hosted by StartupsHK back in 2010/2011 days in the Hong Kong startup scene. Each week awesome stories from awesome entrepreneurs. I was invited to speak at one and was so ne...
Before looking at the future of the Hong Kong startup ecosystem, it’s important to begin with the past. The Hong Kong startup ecosystem has seen tremendous progress during the past five years. The mos...