It’s been ten years since a group of us went to listen to some talks by Silicon Valley people like Dave McClure at Cyberport and him telling us to start “your own ecosystem.” That story, which we’ve r...
It’s coming again – RISE – the conference to end all tech conferences is coming back for its FIFTH year in Hong Kong and the excitement is already growing as we are ready to welcome 18,000+ attendees ...
Thanks Paul Chan! For the first time since we started StartupsHK, the Hong Kong government is really coming up with the cash to support our ecosystem. Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered...
As we build our network in Hong Kong and around the world we are looking to make meaningful introductions to startups at the point in their lives when they need to raise capital to build out their tec...
Next week, Hong Kong will usher in one of the biggest tech conferences for startups, welcoming over 15,000 attendees from 60+ countries all over the world. Produced by the team behind Web Summit, Euro...
Isn’t a technology conference featuring ‘startups’ also just listening to seminars or exchanging a few name cards? Having chatted with Casey Lau, Head of Asia of RISE, we realised that RISE is not onl...
Having lived both in Hong Kong and Singapore, perhaps this is one of the most often asked question: Which is better, Hong Kong or Singapore? You’ll find loads of blogs and banter, even charts and list...
As a startup ecosystem champion and connector I get asked to do many interviews about startups in Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific (i’m in fact going to be talking about this at the East Meets West 2016 con...
We went out and asked a bunch of people that helped make RISE such a huge success their thoughts on the whole event and we got back a bunch of tweets, Instagram photos and just an outpouring of emotio...
A lot is written about Hong Kong as a startup ecosystem, but one thing is for sure: a working visa isn’t a breakpoint anymore! As startup mentor and as co-director of the Founder Institute in Hong Kon...
I just got back to the Valley from a Distro Tour of Asia with a group of mentors from 500 Startups. It sounds glamorous… AND IT WAS. Aside from doing lots of eating, we also helped 60+ companies in Ta...
I’ve either attended, judged or put together so many pitch competitions I thought it would be a good time to share 5 main points on how to win one. Yes, there is a formula and I’ve seen it work on big...
I was asked to moderate a panel at Blueprint’s 500 Startups Day event on how startups can engage the media to cover news about their startups – and there were some interesting discoveries made that I ...
[Updated September 1] While finding quality engineers in Hong Kong is a common complaint, the war for talent in established ecosystems like Silicon Valley is just as present. In fact, some tech compan...
Any business magazine picking tech startups in Hong Kong to feature on the cover of their print magazine is OK by us! Hong Kong Business did this list last year and so here are their picks for 2014. 1...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/retrospotevents-001.jpg) 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 ...
As 2014 is just around the corner, and you’re planning your New Year’s Resolutions – we’re sure that every entrepreneur has “more networking” on their list of things to do more of in 2014 in Hong Kong...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screenshot-2013-12-13-14.19.25.png) Sopheap Lao is an international serial entrepreneur and a father of 4, who was born in a Chinese-Cambodian-Vietnamese fami...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DSC98321.jpg) We did things differently at Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 – we handpicked the mobile startups that are from Hong Kong with a criteria inst...
If you can get 300+ Hongkongers to take an entire day off work to attend a sell-out conference on innovation then I would hardly say entrepreneurship in this town is dead. On the contrary, it’s alive,...
