Chris Place, senior product designer of Native Union and panel speaker at this weekend’s Startup Saturday, knows how to build a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Less than two weeks into their campaign, Native Union had already raised over 500% of their goal to fund JUMP – a novel, stylish and compact way of “jump-starting” your phone when it runs out of battery.
At this point, you’ve likely backed a project or a cause via Kickstarter or Indiegogo and agree that crowdfunding is a great way to virtually collaborate a project’s funding or even purchase equity in a startup.
In anticipation of this weekend’s Startup Saturday: Crowdfunding 2014 on January 25, we wanted to highlight five Hong Kong platforms that are currently innovating in the crowdfunding space.
Register for this event here, and continue reading for more information on some of the players now working in the Hong Kong scene.
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In the past 18 months, co-working spaces have been cropping up faster than we can count them, addressing the issue of high rents and lack of space in Hong Kong.
This is great news for the local ecosystem and with this additional support feeding into the entrepreneurial community – more startups will get to cross the early-stage threshold.
As a new co-working space seems to launch every few months, this will serve as a working list for early stage companies and solopreneurs either looking for a space to collaborate on projects or seeking a community to nurture your small business.
