Here’s a message for newly joined entrepreneurs in this city: “You can startup for less than the cost of an iPhone 5s!” Yes, this is true and you will get to learn more exciting messages like this in the future.
For a brand new year, co-working space Retro Spot presents a mini series of WHY / WHAT / HOW of STARTUPS for new entrepreneurs. Apart from that, you will be hearing new interpretation of why Hong Kong is an excellent place to start up a company and what’s the best way to do it.
Alex So is a co-founder of FastLanePro Hk, a tech savvy professional accounting firm which serves the startup community. He is passionate in providing the best accounting and corporate advice and simplifying his clients’ accounting and management information process.
Being a fellow member of CPA Australia himself, Alex brings with him over 20 years of professional accounting, consulting and investment experiences gained from financial services and asset management industry. He held CFO roles in various financial institutions, private equity businesses and listed company in the region.
Meet Mart Van de Ven: programmer by trade, instructor at General Assembly and one half of the co-founding duo behind Open Data Hong Kong (ODHK).
As an ambassador for Open Knowledge Foundation, a non-profit based in the UK that promotes open content and open data, Mart’s quest in Hong Kong is to develop a local community that’s passionate about the Open Data movement. Ever since meeting co-founder Douglas Wai-Chung Bastien at Bar Camp in February of last year, the two have been building momentum in the local community through tri-weekly meetups and civic hackathons.
For those unsure why Open Data matters, Mart lends an analogy. As he went to university in Hong Kong, he noticed that sharing his notes with his classmates was met with bewilderment. To these local students, sharing something that would give you a competitive advantage was unheard of – even if it would result in a greater good.
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