Hong Kong’s LotsOfButtons.com Takes the Top Prize at Startup Asia 2013 in Singapore

April 8, 2013 by StartupsHK

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Last week was TechInAsia.com‘s big startup event Startup Asia 2013 Singapore – and it was 2-days of panels and pitches from across the region giving amazing insight into the startup scene from Japan and China all the way to Indonesia and Thailand.

Over 100 startups pitched it out in Startup Alley and only 20 of those made it to the main stage of Startup Arena – and of those 20, 2 were from Hong Kong: SocialAgent and LotsOfButtons!

Competing against amazing startups from around the region – there can be only one winner and it came down to Hong Kong’s own LotsofButtons.com that took the top prize of US$10K in cash and the first HK startup to win Startup Arena!

We’re very proud of both Micheal Michelini of SocialAgent.me and Ken Lee of LotsOfButtons.com for representing Hong Kong in such a big regional event and for Ken for showing up the naysayers who chuckle after they hear the domain name and then get slapped in the face by the awesomeness of the pitch.

You can read more coverage of the win on TechInAsia.com here. Congrats Ken – we hear there is more money coming your way soon from hungry investors that are looking for lots of buttons!

We’re going to do a sharing session next week in Hong Kong so stay tuned to details.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: LotsofButtons, Startup Asia 2013

Mobile App CoachBase Makes Coaching And Sharing Easier

March 27, 2013 by StartupsHK

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A critical game on the line, only 20 seconds left on the clock, how do you effectively explain your play to the team in order to execute and win the game? Gone are the days of whiteboard and marker, Coachbase digitizes plays and takes the communication to light speed. The company offers an app that provides a modern solution, offering animated plays to share with the team and give coaches of all levels a visual tool to win.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Accelerators, app, Hong Kong, Nike, Techstar

Forbes Names Hong Kong ‘#1 Tech Capital to Watch’ After Silicon Valley and New York

March 22, 2013 by StartupsHK

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WOW! We’re absolutely thrilled with this post at Forbes.com today by Karsten Strauss:

We at FORBES have a thing or two to say about Hong Kong’s prospective place among the very top tech hubs on the planet. Contributor Rebecca Fannin recently explored what it is that makes the city worth watching.

Fannin found that its Hong Kong’s perhaps unrealized potential that makes the city such a compelling prospect in the near future. With a community of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs on one side and a population of internationally traveled, wealthy tycoons on the other, Hong Kong could be a powder keg of a techonomy waiting to explode.

Coworking space like CoCoon, begun by entrepreneur Theodore Ma and the AcceleratorHK are up and running and startup culture is breaking through barriers like smaller funding possibilities (for now) and lack of big picture dreams for products. Other startup breeding grounds include The Hive Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Incubation Program and Startups HK.

Some HK startups include fashion crowdfunding platform ZaoZao and photo to t-shirt company SnapTee.

Hong Kong beat out London, Tel Aviv and Washington DC to take the top spot.

Thanks to everyone in the Hong Kong startup community for really pushing the envelope and coming together to build a thriving ecosystem noticed by international publications like Forbes!

Let’s all work hard to stay at the top spot next year as well!

Read the full article here.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AcceleratorHK, CoCoon, Forbes, Hong Kong, Science Park, snaptee, The Hive, Zaozao
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