On attending the first Start-Up Hong Kong
By yopy on Jun 21, 2008 in Startup Biz
Angus of 852Signal.com organized a little get-together for all the Hong Kong web start-up at the office of Stepcase. The office is located at Lai Chi Kok, where we called this area Silicon Alley. Its seems some web start-up are attracted to this area because low rent.
I was trying to be artistic on taking this picture.
Some of the crowd.
Leon Ho of Lifehack.org & Stepcase.com. Angus…the man who organized this event.
The food… My thks to the sponsors. I ate a lot of pizza that night.
Belle from Beansbox, Victor from HongKongPhooey and Ed from Dookaz.com.
Napoleon (the middle) from Palavadigital.com & WebWednesday.hk
Michael from Zendesk.com. I want to say thanks to Michael for giving me the buddha machine. I will talk about it on my next post.
PK Chan from Editgrid.com
Simon from Duedee.com
Nelson (the middle) from Openradiohk.com
I hv talked about this with my friends from malaysia. Lately, I felt the resurgence of the internet industry in Hong Kong. Peoples like Angus and Napoleon are trying hard to reach out and try to give a voice to these web-startup.
As compare to malaysia, these couple years there are lot of bloggers, internet-marketing bloggers and tech blogger. Malaysian tech bloggers that comes to my mind are Liewcf.com and Hongkiat.com Not many start-up. The most prominents start-up are the nuffnang & advertlet advertising aggregators.
In fact there is seed funding & pre-seed (www.cradle.com.my), but the screening process is very tough. Can u imagine asking at 20 years guy to draw a biz plan and financial budget….then, five panelist sit in front of you and grill u on your biz plan. Its not a walk in the park. It’s grilling.
The malaysian government is trying very hard to help but most of the funding are not directed to the startup. Most of the funds went to the well-connected and of different race. It’s an unfortunate scenes…
As for me, it’s great to hang around with new found friends. I am a start-up myself. Just arrived in HK freshed…a new life and trying…to find my place in the internet space…
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