The Success of the First H3 Has Everything to Do with the Huge Hong Kong Startup Ecosystem

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The Joker once said “madness is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push,” and as we like to equate “madness” with “startups” – we decided to create H3.

Last week we held our first H3 event – something we’ve been planning for awhile but just never had the time to put together: put programmers, designers and product people into a room, mix with drinks and pizza and see what happens!

Any success that StartupsHK has had over the past few years, in terms of events and networking mixers, is really because of the amazing people that are inside the community. We feel extremely blessed to be part of this community and even from our Startup Saturday event in October to the H3 last week we know Hong Kong is going on the map because of YOU!

If you missed it, H3 is our new mixer event where if you are a hacker, hustler or hipster you can attend – and usually you are without a team – you are a designer looking to join a new startup, a hustler with a great idea or a hacker that is looking to put his/her talent into a new company – each one of these people are essential to the success of a startup and the point of H3 is to form new startups over the course of the evening with only color stickers to let you know what the other people specialize in.

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Hong Kong Needs More Mentors: Mentor Networking Event at Retro Spot On 19 Nov

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What is your definition of a MENTOR?

Did you find your mentor or are you still looking for him/her? Almost every successful founder has one or more influential mentors that backed them up behind the scenes through the years.

Some entrepreneurs may even turn into mentors themselves in the future for new generation startups. A mentor means more than just a consultant or a coach for business but a good friend and helpful hand that keeps you accompany in your entrepreneur life.  With more and more startups and entrepreneurs making new changes here, Hong Kong needs more mentors!

Having a mentor in your journey of starting up a  business is essential- sometimes to get connected with them brings you the golden chance that you could never imagined. You can not do it alone in the startup world. Mentors can assist you in many ways, like raising capital, advices on hiring or firing, giving you ideas to help you move on and most importantly to grow your network.

But how do people find mentors, especially for those that are out of your network? If cold-call, email blast or Linkedin luck sound too lame for you- Here’s a mentor networking event for you which connects you the entrepreneurs and the mentors.

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Divide’s David Zhu Named Silicon Dragon’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2013’

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You disrupt the enterprise, people take notice!

Last night at the Silicon Dragon Awards reception at the KPMG offices in Causeway Bay, founder Rebecca Fannin gave out 2 awards under her Silicon Dragon banner – one was to VC Deal of the Year to Richard Liu and the other was to our community member and Enterproid/Divide CTO and co-founder David Zhu as Entrepreneur of the Year.

David started in our community a few years ago with Enterproid, having been one of the early employees of Smule and working at Morgan Stanley; he went on to co-found Enterproid with his friends and now boast offices in Hong Kong, London and New York with investors like Google Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners and Harmony Partners raising a combined US$25 million in funding!

David has been a strong supporter of the Hong Kong startup scene and you can even see his early pitch at our first Startup Saturday below to see how far he’s grown his original vision:

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