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5 Questions With Raymond Yip, Co-Founder and CEO of Shopline

February 25, 2014 by Iris Leung

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After many years of living in New York City, Shopline co-founder and CEO Raymond Yip now calls Hong Kong his home. Prior to starting up Shopline, Raymond managed the engineering and delivery of software products for large corporate teams in New York City and Hong Kong.

Aside from enterprise technology, Raymond has created and launched a multitude of products including e-commerce sites, a web/mobile social network and Facebook applications in the past. As a web and mobile user interface designer that have helped client businesses launch their presence on the web, Raymond was also the UI designer on the winning team at the April 2013 edition of Startup Weekend Hong Kong for Best User Experience.

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PaperclipHK’s Deepak Madnani Opens Hong Kong’s First Startup Academy/Co-Workspace in Sheung Wan

February 10, 2014 by Iris Leung

With Hong Kong’s first Startup Grind on tomorrow at Paperclip, we went by the new co-work space and academy to chat with founder Deepak Madnani.

By taking a leaf from Steve Blank and Eric Ries’ book, the heart of Paperclip is in the academy, and courses will be drawn from the methodologies behind the lean startup movement. For those unfamiliar with the lean startup principles, it encourages entrepreneurs to get comfortable with failure and stresses the importance of always innovating and iterating. While great execution is what brings an idea to life, the lean startup way suggests that experimentation vs. elaborate planning can actually make starting a company less risky.

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Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: Co-Workspace, Deepak Madnani, Education, PaperclipHK, Sheung Wan

5 Questions With Sopheap Lao, CEO of Mobexo

December 19, 2013 by StartupsHK

Sopheap Lao is an international serial entrepreneur and a father of 4, who was born in a Chinese-Cambodian-Vietnamese family. He was educated in France and worked as a consultant to global MNO’s for the last 16 years in over 10 countries. Now he is the founder and CEO of Mobexo, a mobile payment company that wants you to forget about payments and that actually is a one-stop-shop financial and added-value services provider for online and SME retailers. After 3.5 years of R&D in France and Vietnam, Sopheap moved to Hong Kong in May 2013 to launch Mobexo’s commercial operations, targeting 10,000+ users and 2,000+ merchants by Q1 2014.
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