As we did last year, StartupsHK is teaming up with Social Media Week to bring you Pitch Night 2012 in February. 5 start-ups will pitch in front of 3 venture capital judges to compete for a cash prize ...
No Startup Monday #SUMHK on the 23rd and a practice session for Pitch Night on the 30th – before our Corey Kidd talk on Feb 6th and Pitch Night 2012 on Feb 13! Take the time to rest up or get more wor...
Sounds like a cool title for a sci-fi movie? In fact this is reality and we haveDr. Cory “I am not a robot” Kidd coming in to share about his Hong Kong-based robotics start-up Intuituive Automata and ...
What happens when you have a successful start-up funded in Silicon Valley but then you can’t stay in the US? You move to Hong Kong, of course! Buffer is a great web service that allows you to time you...
As a New York-based Venture Capitalist, Justin built the venture arm of Penny Black and launched BOLDstart Ventures, a seed fund focused on investing in New York’s booming tech environment. Justin has...
“We are going to change the world”. If ever there was a cliche at a technology start-up pitch, this has to be it. Having gone through the roller coaster ride of raising investment, I learned an import...
The long & hard road of raising capital Great presentation by founder of 8Securities.com Mikaal Abdulla (on Twitter: @8securities) at Startup Monday last night! Subscribe to this blog to get updates o...
> > By Jason Calacanis > > A year ago SNS (social network service) Path.com launched as the anti-Facebook. With odd product choices like a 50-person friend limit and an iPhone-only release, the servic...
Paul will be in town for a bit and will be talking at this meetup about “Customer Development: the methodology people love to talk about,” and “A short list of mistakes I made when running my startup....
> After running a couple of weekend startup incubators under the BootUP! name, we hooked up with the global Startup Weekend organization to do another event. The first two being held in BootHK limited...
> After running a couple of weekend startup incubators under the BootUP! name, we hooked up with the global Startup Weekend organization to do another event. The first two being held in BootHK limited...
We have Mikaal Abdulla the founder of 8 Securities coming in to talk to us about raising money and how we was able to secure $8 million in funding for his start-up. Mikaal was a Senior VP at E-Trade w...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Techcrunch-DISRUPT-Beijing.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) We have two of our group members – Salvador De La Barrera of Flipter and Leon Ho of Steply – coming out to show...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/p188.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) This is the third time we’ve been involved in a startup weekend, and it’s definitely the biggest with over 60 people participating. H...
The PolyU took these great photos of Jason’s artwork for us to share here. The first sheets are on a panel Casey Lau did with Greg Sung and Kelly Yu – 2 entreprenuers here in Hong Kong – the second wa...
Hong Kong really knows how to maximize the Geeks on a Plane when they come to town. The “Beyond Entrepreneurship Forum” is the second of 3 events we have gotten them to commit to. You’d think after St...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG9380.JPG.scaled1000.jpg) [](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IMG9381.jpg) See the full gallery on Posterous Jason has uploaded all of his Art Notes o...