UPDATE: The government got around to creating a site that covers what I proposed here. Check it ou at StartMeUp.hk Welcome to my newest project (anyone want to co-found?), Startups.hk, a website which soon become a searchable directory of/for all the players in the Hong Kong startup scene, including: Startups: ideas, seed stage, funded, exited Money: […]
This is a very sensitive topic. It’s like planning your divorce while you’re on your honeymoon. It also points out the actual, real life level of skin in the game as well as quantity of energy spent and sweat equity…sweated(?) so far by each member. No more time for promises or talk. Time to put up […]
We’ve been selected as a semi-finalists in the 2012 Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge competition. I was a semi-finalists in the 2009 Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge (HKSEC) as well, back when I was working on landfill gas to energy. We lost to a non-profit which made cupcakes for homeless people. Seriously. The woman closest to me is […]
Last Sunday night I put the finishing touches on the second prototype. Check it out: It takes up half my apartment The first prototype was very small, just a proof of concept type thing. This one is operational and dangerous. This prototype also establishes a milestone in the startup. I’ve worked on this startup since […]
I should have moved to Singapore. Come one Hong Kong, where are you? It seems to me that Singapore is wiping the startup floor with Hong Kong. This is from Tech In Asia: Startups always have difficulties hiring and retaining talent. Graduates usually prefer to work in government and corporate jobs that give good salary […]
This is via Chris Dixon’s blog, discussing the development, or perhaps innovation, of VC firms: Earlier this year I got to meet the a16z team and observe the operation directly. There are over 60 people at the firm. Only six people do traditional VC activities: investing, joining boards, and helping out. The rest are exclusively […]
I recently found a blog by another entrepreneur with eyes on Hong Kong. The man, Joshua Steimle, owns an IT tech company in the US and is planning on moving to Hong Kong around June 2013. As he is married with children, and makes more money than I, his blog provides a very different perspective […]
I was lucky enough to receive a free ticket to the Hong Kong Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Angel Investor Conference at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park. Topics and discussions included: Silicon Valley Bank’s role in supporting tech startups and how it can apply in Hong Kong How greater VC and Angel investment activity […]
We are having a difficult time securing scientific glassware for our proof of concept prototype we are building. It seems that scientific supply companies in Hong Kong have absolutely no interest in working with small companies. “I knew that my passion lay in experimental science way way back,” says Douglas Osheroff, who shared the 1996 […]
So these guys are having their October “Start Club” event tomorrow, Monday the 29th in LKF. It’s called “Starting Local, Going Global”, but beyond that I don’t know what the event is about. They’ll have some startups pitch their ideas, which is always interesting (I’ve attempted to pitch at these guy’s event, but they keep […]
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