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.
The Hong Kong Startup Ecosystem: What’s Next?
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...
Subject Lines and Twitter Intros: How Startups Can Build Relationships with the Media
I was asked to moderate a panel at Blueprint’s 500 Startups Day event on how startups can engage the media to cover news about their startups – and there were some interesting discoveries made that I ...
Subject Lines and Twitter Intros: How Startups Can Build Relationships with the Media
I was asked to moderate a panel at Blueprint’s 500 Startups Day event on how startups can engage the media to cover news about their startups – and there were some interesting discoveries made that I ...
Great Founders, Futuristic Wearables and Government Intervention: ‘An Evening With Walt Mossberg’ Gives Hong Kong Startups Insight from a Tech Journalism Legend
On Friday, StartupsHK hosted the legendary Walt Mossberg — former principal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal, creator of AllThingsD and the co-executive editor of Re/Code. Casey Lau, kn...
Great Founders, Futuristic Wearables and Government Intervention: ‘An Evening With Walt Mossberg’ Gives Hong Kong Startups Insight from a Tech Journalism Legend
On Friday, StartupsHK hosted the legendary Walt Mossberg — former principal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal, creator of AllThingsD and the co-executive editor of Re/Code. Casey Lau, kn...
Hackathons and Hong Kong: A Natural Fit
Above: Hackers get into their groove at AngelHack Hong Kong, 2013 Between Chinese New Year and the end of March this year six hackathons will have taken place in Hong Kong. From the HK Budget Hackatho...
Appedu reveals how it fights the war for talents
Appedu aims to make learning easier than ever. By providing a crowdsourcing mobile app that allows students to ask any question in one click, Appedu is creating an accessible and high quality learning...
Pull Up a Red Chair and Get Ready for ‘An Evening with Walt Mossberg’ in Hong Kong
The man, the legend, the sitter in red chairs: Walt Mossberg – returns to Hong Kong for an intimate and interactive evening on March 20 to discuss technology and startups at the Qube at PMQ in Central...
Pull Up a Red Chair and Get Ready for ‘An Evening with Walt Mossberg’ in Hong Kong
The man, the legend, the sitter in red chairs: Walt Mossberg – returns to Hong Kong for an intimate and interactive evening on March 20 to discuss technology and startups at the Qube at PMQ in Central...
Startup Hiring: Building an Edge
Startups do not have many ways to build a strong competitive advantage in the early days. But startup hiring is one area where this is possible because the hiring process at most large companies is br...
The Tech in Asia Tour Comes to Hong Kong on 10 March 2015
Just a quick reminder that you have 1 day left to submit your pitch to join the Tech in Asia Pitch Day on March 10. This is a great deal for Hong Kong startups, as the winner gets flown in and put up ...
DBS is Bringing Their Hackathon to Hong Kong this March – All Participants will be Paid!
[](https://www.ideatory.co/dbs-hackathon/) UPDATE: An info session will be held at Garage Society this Friday 13th Feb On March 4 to 6 of this year, DBS will be bringing DBS Hackathons to Hong Kong fo...
DBS is Bringing Their Hackathon to Hong Kong this March – All Participants will be Paid!
[](https://www.ideatory.co/dbs-hackathon/) UPDATE: An info session will be held at Garage Society this Friday 13th Feb On March 4 to 6 of this year, DBS will be bringing DBS Hackathons to Hong Kong fo...
Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda Acquires Hong Kong Food Delivery Startup Koziness
In what seems like a whole bunch of eating going on – just last June we saw Koziness acquire an old-school food delivery platform Dial-a-Dinner (see Online Food Ordering and Delivery Platform Koziness...
Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda Acquires Hong Kong Food Delivery Startup Koziness
In what seems like a whole bunch of eating going on – just last June we saw Koziness acquire an old-school food delivery platform Dial-a-Dinner (see Online Food Ordering and Delivery Platform Koziness...
5 Questions with Hugh Bell of Coco Color Stylus – a Coloring Stylus for Kids
Hardware startups are popping up all over Hong Kong – and it’s easier when you have creative children around you all the time. We chat with Hugh Bell a former a software developer that moved to Hong K...
Lessons I Learned While Raising Funding: A Look into Shopline’s New US$1.2 Million Seed Round by Co-Founder Raymond Yip
Today Shopline announced closing it’s seed round of US$1.2 million! Congrats Team Shopline – Raymond, Tony and Fiona! Some more details include: Completed the 500 Startups Accelerator program in San F...
Shamrocks Over Wan Chai: The Web Summit is Bringing The Rise Conference to Hong Kong this Summer
Paddy Cosgrave put Dublin on the tech map 4 short years ago with The Web Summit – probably the most popular tech conference outside the interactive portion of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas – and...
Swire Properties’ Blueprint Accelerator and Co-Workspace Shows the World Hong Kong is Serious About Startups
Of all 35+ spaces that have opened since the original BootHK and The Hive (who we still hold as the gold standard that showed everyone how co-workspace is done here in Hong Kong) nothing has made us m...
Is Acquiring Early-Stage Startups by Companies’ Wanting to Enter the Asian Market the Next Big Trend in Hong Kong?
There are a number of reasons why a company might want to buy a startup, whether it’s joining forces with the competition or absorbing the talent and the technology. As for the Australia-based Crowd M...