by Tamara Lucas | May 11, 2016 | Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam |
Attending events always help the networking and are the perfect excuse to connect with people in your industry. Regarding the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the different types of events held are important because: Events are a good showcase for new startups, so they can...
by Tamara Lucas | Apr 13, 2016 | Vietnam |
FinTech technologies have disrupted, without doubt, the financial sector. In the last few years we have witnessed the introduction of new business models and of new ways to customer relation in a traditional sector. Financial institutions have seen the need of being...
by Tamara Lucas | Apr 5, 2016 | Cambodia |
Cambodia is a country where around 50% of the population is below 25 years, there is a strong self-employment tradition and the mobile penetration is growing. All of these factors shape a growing, new and young startup ecosystem in Cambodia. With Geeks in Cambodia,...
by Tamara Lucas | Mar 28, 2016 | Cambodia |
Fate made us meet Rithy Thul, co-founder of Smallworld Cambodia. He told us that he is a guy who enjoys riding bicycle, exploring and testing new startup ideas. But we know he is also one of the promoters of the growing startup ecosystem in Phnom Penh. Although we...
by Tamara Lucas | Mar 4, 2016 | Hong Kong |
Prevention of heart attacks thanks to Internet of Things (IoT)? The end of the morning snoozze? A better hearing thanks to a external device? It’s been only a couple of months since we had the opportunity to speak with some of the teams in Brinc, the hardware...
by Tamara Lucas | Feb 2, 2016 | Hong Kong |
We had the opportunity to assist to the Startup Weekend Hong Kong and there we met two young men who had just launched to the entrepreneurial world. With very different business ideas, they shared the desire to do things, the enthusiasm for a growing sector and the...
by Tamara Lucas | Jan 13, 2016 | Hong Kong |
It is not the first time we hear that “hardware” has the word “hard” for a reason. However, I have not met anyone who talks about IoT and the challenges of hardware startups with more energy than Bay McLaughlin, co-founder of Brinc, the main...
by Tamara Lucas | Dec 13, 2015 | Hong Kong |
Two months since we started the project and we had not talked about the MAKER movement in Asia yet. I could not imagine a better person to open this subject that Cesar Harada. Franco-Japanese entrepreneur, environmentalist, TED fellow and inventor with whom we had the...
by Tamara Lucas | Nov 28, 2015 | China |
If we talk about “smart products”, cars – along with smart watches – could be widely accepted by the mainstream public. News about the Google car or about the car that already made autonomously the Vigo-Madrid route are examples of this trend....
by Tamara Lucas | Nov 15, 2015 | China
To understand the existing ecosystem in China in terms of tech disruption, the first thing to understand is the BAT or, as it was called by the Wall Street Journal, the Kingmakers of China’s Internet. China’s Internet is now divided into three powerful kingdoms:...
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