WHub’s FinTech Whitepaper presents the key findings and facts as well as a comprehensive analysis of the contributing factors in the ecosystem that have solidified Hong Kong’s position as a leading gl...
Isn’t a technology conference featuring ‘startups’ also just listening to seminars or exchanging a few name cards? Having chatted with Casey Lau, Head of Asia of RISE, we realised that RISE is not onl...
Most of you reading this probably know Dave McClure in Silicon Valley — the main (mad)man behind 500 Startups. But I only know the Dave McClure from Asia. I just returned from attending the 500 Startu...
This is an interview I did with Dragonair’s inflight magazine called Silkroad— they don’t have a website so they were gracious enough to allow to reprint the article in full here. I sat down with writ...
We’ve been following Swire Properties’ Blueprint B2B accelerator in Quarry Bay ever since it opened and so we asked Michelle Buultjens, Brand Strategy & Communications for blueprint – what lessons the...
You may have seen reports floating around on the interwebs on the current state of Hong Kong funding, from ill-advised infographics to strangely sourced global reports. So we decided to call up James ...
Having lived both in Hong Kong and Singapore, perhaps this is one of the most often asked question: Which is better, Hong Kong or Singapore? You’ll find loads of blogs and banter, even charts and list...
What is the best startup ecosystem? There’s no shortage of reports trying to answer that question. Take your pick for 2015. We crave these lists because our education system, culture and business worl...
As a startup ecosystem champion and connector I get asked to do many interviews about startups in Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific (i’m in fact going to be talking about this at the East Meets West 2016 con...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1-qSlXGj8hGsaHIJEHP2xkZA.jpg) With an average of eight unicorns born each year (companies worth over $1B) throughout each of the past 10 years, it’s no surpri...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG6845.jpeg) We were happy to hear of HiringScreen.com’s round of funding and wanted to find out more – this is Hiring Screen CEO and Co-Founder Richard Hans...
There were lines to get into the centerstage to watch the talks from people like Tony Conrad, Liam Casey, Sonny Vu, Matt Mullenweg and more at RISE – if you were one of those too busy networking and m...
We went out and asked a bunch of people that helped make RISE such a huge success their thoughts on the whole event and we got back a bunch of tweets, Instagram photos and just an outpouring of emotio...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/100146216599387307387681041767909n.jpeg) Over the past decade, social entrepreneurship has been the talk of town. How can we do well and do good? Entrepreneur...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG2898.jpeg) One of the exciting things about RISE was Paddy Cosgrave’s impetus to include as much of Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem into the actual event as ...
Photo by Teigi Lee. I first met Paddy Cosgrave a few months ago at a China Club dinner organised by Anson Bailey at KPMG and little did I know that was going to lead to the biggest startup conference ...
In what was an incredible finale at RISE – over all of the startups selected for PITCH; the main RISE pitching stage that included 33 startups from around the world – all 3 finalists were from Hong Ko...
So, what a week eh? Just a quick post here before a longer deep dive post into RISE week. I am absolutely amazed at what we all pulled off in Hong Kong for RISE. It absolutely blew away all expectatio...
Asia’s biggest startup conference RISE is heading to Hong Kong next week Friday and Saturday – but there are all kinds of things happening starting on Monday. For those out-of-town visitors I threw to...
Let’s be honest – it is not an easy task to hire developers in Hong Kong. If you have tried with different job listing sites (jobsdb, recruit.net, angel.co, WHUB) but still could not be able to hire a...
