5 Questions with Alice Zhang, Founder of Mischmasch

March 12, 2013 by StartupsHK

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Alice Zhang is the founder of Mischmasch. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 with a degree in graphic design. After that, she worked as a designer in NYC and London before moving to Hong Kong in 2008.

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Mischmasch is an online artist platform, artists upload their works and people interact with them. We just upgraded it with a brand new design. The new design features a dynamic grid system that algorithmically rearranges based on number of votes and when the artwork was uploaded.

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Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: art, founders, Mischmasch

5 Questions with David Beatty, Co-Founder of Refer.me

March 11, 2013 by StartupsHK

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David Beatty is co-founder of Refer.me, the platform for crowdsourced recruitment.

With a background in Software Development, Computer Engineering and Business, David previously worked with Goldman Sachs for 12 years, leading Technology Engineering teams in Europe and Asia.

David is passionate about software, business models, startups and anything remote-controlled.

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Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: career, crowdsource, founders

5 Questions with Stephen Forte, Founder of AcceleratorHK

February 26, 2013 by StartupsHK

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Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company, Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools. Involved in several startups, he was the co-founder of Triton Works, which was acquired by UBM (London: UBM.L) in 2010 and was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc., which was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City (acquired by Google in 2011).

We chatted with Stephen about his accelerator program in Hong Kong and what we need to shake up the startup scene in Hong Kong:

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