Hong Kong's Tech Startup Community
What can you do?
You can find the whole thing here, including some responses to the last round of consultation:
http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr10-11/english/bc/bc10/general/bc10.htm
http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr10-11/english/bc/bc10/papers/bc10_d.htm
Give well thought out responses and tell anyone else that hasn't heard of it.
Any submissions for feedback needs to be submitted by March 2nd.
Image courtesy xkcd
The simple answer is: you don't.
Unless your product or service has no human touchpoints, then your product or service *is* the UX - and you should be thinking about this from day one.
This talk is part rant, part workshop/roundtable.
The rant will cover:
The workshop/roundtable will cover:
As usual, the meeting is at BootHK, 19/f, 231-233 Queen's Road East in Wan Chai and will start at 7:30pm.
A few here and the full album here
Congrats to all the startups, thanks to the judges for their time and support and to Rackspace for the generous prize! Thanks to Marianne Bunton, Cohn&Wolfe/Impact Asia and Social Media Week for all the logistics and support and love!
We'll be doing it again in a few months! Stay tuned!
It's the 2nd Social Media Week in Hong Kong, and to follow up on our super sucessful event last year we're doing it again: PITCH NIGHT @ BISOUS ON FEBRUARY 13.
From the first one we did this time last year, to the Echelon Pitch Day at Bloomberg to the Pitch Night at Hyde, StartupsHK has provided the Hong Kong community with opportunities to showcase their startups to a very excited audience in hopes to bring more attention to the local tech startup scene.
This time its a more managebale 5 start-ups pitching in 5 minutes each, to a panel of 5 judges Shark Tank style.
The panel includes:
Rackspace is sponsoring prizes as well as Nokia.
The 5 startups we have pitching are:
The judges can and will make investments LIVE on the floor if they like the idea - and the event WILL be livestreamed - so stay tuned to @StartupsHK for the links or follow the #SMWHK hashtag on Twitter.
So if you haven't registered you need to do so because this event sold out super fast last year and there will be no tickets at the door.
StartupsHK is just organzing the pitches, the registration and event production is by Social Media Week - so we can't help you "get in" if its sold out - so please register at this link now.
If you haven't yet please follow us on Twitter here and join our LinkedIn group here.
See you on Feb. 13th!
"Launched in October of last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing, 8 Securities is the first online investing tool in Hong Kong. It combines social elements (like tracking your favorite traders) with a trading portal where you can select markets, trading tools, news, and research.
"Change does not come until the conventional way of doing things is disrupted for the better… and that is our mission," the company notes.""
While 8Securities is based and founded in HK, most American media cannot tell the difference between HK and China even if they had a cup of noodles poured on them in the MTR.
But I digress...
This is great for Mikaal Abdulla founder of 8Securities as well as bringing a spotlight onto the Hong Kong start-up scene.
Check out the other start-ups at the story linked above.
5 start-ups will pitch in front of 3 venture capital judges to compete for a cash prize and the audience will get to vote on their favorite via Twitter with pitches going out live via #SUMHK.
Details coming up but mark your calendar for that night in Central. More details about Social Media Week at www.socialmediaweek.org.
Take the time to rest up or get more work done and we'll see you in the Year of the Dragon!
In fact this is reality and we have Dr. Cory "I am not a robot" Kidd coming in to share about his Hong Kong-based robotics start-up Intuituive Automata and how he built his start-up and working at MIT Media Lab, working in Artifical Intelligence and human robot interaction - this is the "do not miss" Startup Monday for February so make sure you book it in your calendar and make sure you come early as we will lock the door at 7:30 on the dot.
As with all Startup Mondays:
Cory's bio below:
What happens when you have a successful start-up funded in Silicon Valley but then you can't stay in the US? You move to Hong Kong, of course!
Buffer is a great web service that allows you to time your tweets and Facebook updates to when your readers will most likely interact with them - a freemium service that has really taken hold of social media enthusiastics around the world.
Buffer co-founder Joel Gascoigne (on the left in photo above and on Twitter @joelgascoigne) will be at Startup Monday to talk about moving from the UK to the Valley, raising money in 60 days, getting traction quickly, marketing a new web service and of course how he ended up in Hong Kong.
As with all Startup Mondays:
This event is now AT CAPACITY! No more sign-ups.
Justin received his BA from Harvard University, and an MSc from the University of Oxford, writing his dissertation on how Internet technology will impact access to higher education.
Join us at BootHK (http://boot.hk) at 7:30pm for what should prove to be both an interesting presentation and active discussion.
