Good things never come easy. We know you have been waiting for a while for the very first social innovation camp in Hong Kong. Now techies or designers with good hearts: it’s finally here on 25-27 October at Retro Spot! Let’s have a countdown together and see you this weekend.
If you just heard this now, don’t worry- take the last minute chance. Check the 6 final ideas here and sign up ASAP! [Read more…]
We’ve been visiting several collaborative workplaces in Hong Kong recently, and are really excited to see that more people are joining to serve the startups and help develop this community. We had 1,000 square feet of co-workspace in January 2012, and look at us now with almost 20 spaces all over the city – and we will have 150,000 square feet by the end of this year. The community is growing and we need more offices and venues to get things done. Today we stopped by another one locating at Fo Tan industrial area – Startup Commune, which according to its founder offers the Lowest workplace rent in Hong Kong.
First built up in 2011 by the founder of Lakoo Games, this place has always kept a low profile, which is maybe the reason why most people have never heard of it before. (Don’t worry – with us you won’t miss anything like this) Startup Commune currently has 18 tables in 1200 square feet and offers a HK$980(negotiable) monthly rent to the startups and entrepreneurs. Yes, you read this right. This is definitely the lowest rent for workplaces in Hong Kong as far as we know. [Read more…]
We were able to quickly get Angel.co’s Josh Slayton to answer a few questions on his visit to Hong Kong this weekend.
Give us 5 sentences on who Josh Slayton is?
Josh Slayton: I’m CTO and employee #1 at AngelList. I’ve been programming since childhood, studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Kentucky, moved to SF six years ago, was an early hire at three startups before I settled at AngelList. Prior to AngelList I was lead developer at SuperRewards, a monetization platform for social games which was acquired for ~$50 million by Adknowledge in July 2009. After taking some time off to travel I met Naval through a mutual connection and joined AngelList in August 2010 (as user #671). At AngelList I lead platform development, server operations, technical infrastructure, our API, etc. AngelList aims to make the startup ecosystem more efficient—we help founders recruit, meet investors, apply to incubators, network with each other and more. We’re a Ruby/Rails shop with eight engineers on the team now.
For those who don’t know, what is AngelList?
JS: AngelList is a platform for the startup universe. We help startups fundraise, recruit, apply to incubators and much more.
