STARTBOARD X TECHGRIND

STARTBOARD is extremely happy & excited to announce our new partner abroad TechGrind. TechGrind offers incubation to companies at a very early stage – even if they are not yet ready for seed investment. Based in Thailand, TechGrind shares the same view like STARTBOARD. Together we want to encourage great startup ideas in ASEAN countries & India. We are here to ensure that our startups get precisely what they need.

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Our team 東遊 Dong Yo was in Thailand at the mid of August, they represented STARTBOARD on last Tuesday and helped STARTBOARD and TechGrind sign the MoU.

We would like to congratulate TechGrind on our new collaboration. Welcome aboard guys~

Meeting with Legislator Lin Li – Chan

On August 17th, STARTBOARD and GGC ambassador Sophera Vath got the opportunity to meet and talk with legislator Lin Li-Chan. During couple hours of the meeting we shared our thought about foreign talents in Taiwan and how to help them with their dream in this country.

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Legislator Lin has always been a dedicated person in improving the right of international talents as well as new immigration in Taiwan since herself – as a new immigration – went through a lot of difficulties when se first came to this country.

Viet’s Startups in Taiwan: Braveheart Challenge

Here comes the first Viet night in 2017!!!
This theme night had diverse discussing topics related to startup field such as the passion, the challenges and how Taiwan is a great destination for startups over the world generally and ASEAN-INDIA specifically. Specifically, in the Vietnamese night, not only having Vietnamese Experts Association in Taiwan (VNEAT), but also we invited the founder of Vnimation, a very experienced company in Vietnam about VR Techonology in building and construction, to shared their story while attending the IDEA’s Show @APEC and their plan to expand market to Taiwan!

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STARTBOARD MEETING WITH DPP’S NEW IMMIGRANT COMMITTEE.

On July, STARTBOARD team had a chance to visit  Tran Thi Hoang Phuon, a lecturer of Vietnamese at National Chengchi University, who serves as chief of DPP New Immigrants’ committee. This committee is under the DPP and launched as a part of the New Southbound Policy of President Tsai Ing Wen. The 12-member committee is composed of new immigrants, scholars and experts, according to the party.  

Teacher Tran has lived in Taiwan with her family for many years, so she experienced both pros and cons of being an immigrant in Taiwan. She supported STARTBOARD in the aspect of helping the ASEAN students and startup. We hope in the future, we can work with her and her team in more inspiring projects.

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It’s warm-hearting conversation with Teacher Tran and her husband about how to contribute the society.
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STARTBOARD team with one of 10 iconic people in Taipei
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Sharing more information about our STARTBOARD

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STARTBOARD IS HIRING! WELCOME TO OUR TEAM

STARTBOARD is a startup incubator for students from ASEAN countries and India who are passionate about building sustainable solutions in Taiwan, and Taiwanese entrepreneurial teams who intend to pursue the ASEAN-Indian market. We are a one-stop solution for resources and mentoring, along with efficient interaction and collaboration.

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For the future development of our team, STARTBOARD is offering new positions for anyone with a passionate about startup to join us soon:

1- INTERNSHIP

STARTBOARD is looking for summer intern(s) to assist us in the development of our ecosystem, special event projects and team building course. If you think you have these qualities, reach out to us immediately;
– Well-spoken and fluent in English and intermediate level of Mandarin will be preferable/ We welcome all ASEAN and Indian talents to join us.
– Highly communicative and pleasant personality.
– You should be a Team Player, Bubbly, Proactive, Self-discipline and Result oriented.
– Independent, resourceful and self motivated characteristic.
– Adapt in MS office and PowerPoint presentations (Those with photoshop skills will be plus point).

– Have an interest to Start up industry.
– Interns / fresh grads with no experience/ prior knowledge but you think you have what it takes are welcome to apply

2- PROJECT MANAGER (Chinese native speaker preferred )

With many upcoming events in the future, STARTBOARD also looking for a Project Manager who could join us. You will be responsible for day-to-day management at the office, working with partners and managing all partners data. Come to us if you have:

  • Minimum 1 year of work experience
  • Ability to communicate clearly through oral and written communications – both in English and Chinese
  • Ability to multi-task in a dynamic environment
  • Able to adapt to the work of flexible high pressure changes
  • Organizing and planning skills
  • Priority setting & urgency judgment skill
  • Ability to manage daily workflow as required
  • Great teamwork skill – ability to manage multi-country background team
  • Ability to use software tools – MS office
  • Ability to plan, propose and executive operating strategy
  • Positive attitude in learning/challenge
  • Interpersonal communication and coordination ability, cheerful personality

Please send your CV and cover letter to the email address: vivien@startboard.co (Ms.Vivien)! Welcome you all to join STARTBOARD family!

STARTBOARD WELCOME STUDENTS FROM BEIJING

On 3rd August, STARTBOARD had a chance to welcome students from Beijing. As the students attended Summer Course in Taiwan, as their professor was interested in STARTBOARD and felt that STARTBOARD’s concept were suitable for an educational trip. Therefore, COO and Founder of STARTBOARD, Uniform Lin and, Project Manager of STARTBOARD, Charlotte Wang headed the group for a little tour around STARTBOARD’s working spaces.

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Uniform Lin and Charlotte Wang were the ones to lead the team and show them around our working space. The group started the tour from iFoundry, one of STARTBOARD office. Located in GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center, iFoundry is a lovely, comfortable place suitable for meeting and working. It has several individual rooms enough for more than 15 companies with quite environment.

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Then the group took a little walk to iStaging located in Taiwan Air Force (TAF) Innovation Base. iStaging exhibits VR technology to its visitors, e.g. they have  a current project called Smart City. It’s always open for public, anyone who may be interested in future technology are always welcome to visit.

The group then moved to BeingLab where various interesting technology by Acer is put on exhibition. Followed by visiting Happier Lab, a lovely café where every single thing are made from recycles.

Lastly, the group visited our common workspace for STARTBOARD and Dong Yo, one of our current team who specializes in consulting for investors interested in expanding abroad through distinctive designing and planning. Uniform Lin briefly introduced STARTBOARD and Chen-Yeh Chiang, CEO and sFounder of Dong Yo to the group.

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The tour ended with some very interesting questions and inquiries raised by the students. STARTBOARD was very excited and glad to have hosted these brilliant students from Beijing and hope to host more of such groups in the future!

A new era of Vietnamese Startups in Taiwan

Taipei city hosted an event for all the Vietnamese startups in Taiwan

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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – An event in Taipei saw a lot of Vietnamese startups in Taiwan coming together to share their experiences and ideas about Taiwan and Vietnam.

The event was held on Sunday, July 23 in Taipei CLBC the Flagship and was hosted by a startup incubator in Taipei called STARTBOARD.

STARTBOARD claims to be the first ASEAN-India incubator in Taiwan and already has several international startups from India, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand under its belt.

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The event saw a number of new Vietnamese startups in Taiwan coming together and sharing their journey and talking about the challenges faced by them as a startup in Taiwan.

“We are very proud to present our teams and host this event with all our partners here tonight; our main goal is to promote as many startups in Taiwan as possible. We currently have 5 to 10 startups coming from different backgrounds working with us. We hope through events like this we can make greater collaborations and discover more hidden talents in Taiwan,” said Mr. Uniform Lin (林致孚), COO of STARTBOARD.

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The key highlight of the event was new joint ventures between Taiwanese startups and Vietnamese startups.

Attendees varied from skilled professionals to fresh graduates. Some international students who own startups in their home country also attended the event as they were interested in expanding their business here in Taiwan and its neighboring countries.

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The event was co-organized by CLBC, Contact Taiwan, TXA, and Formosa Maker Space to name a few.

 

STARTBOARD’S FIRST EVER COLLABORATION WITHIN THE FAMILY: TEAM INNOVIZ

Team Vnimation!!

Being the first 3D architectural visualization & animation Company in Hanoi, Vietnam, are specialized in producing all 3D products including 3D Stills and 3D Animation, 3D Models, 3D interactive and TVC…

With nearly 10 years’ experience in field of 3D producing and consulting, Vnimation believes in product knowledge and the trust of customers.

Team Follia VR!!

As Team Follia VR aims to create and improve virtual interaction space allowing the viewer to use their computer, laptop, tablet or HTC VIVE to view into the VR space with complete freedom to move and interact. Team Follia and Team Vnimation discovered their common ground and decided to take a step further in their journey to become excellent entrepreneurs by joining hands and creating the new joint venture Team Innoviz.

STARTBOARD is happy to have been able to create this collaboration. With the help of our resources that we provide to our batches and teams both team Vnimation and Follia could recognize their common ground. We provide meetings and events to help our batch mates socialize and get to know each other more. Through one of our such sessions we were able to help create team Innoviz.

“We are very thankful and happy to be a part of STARTBOARD which helps companies and startups who are interested in ASEAN & India market to start or expand their business”- Vincent, Partner, Innoviz.

STARTBOARD is very proud and happy for both the teams and would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to their new endeavor. We wish Team Innoviz all the luck and success.

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STARTBOARD meeting with Department of Culture and Creative Development

On August 2nd, by kindly assistance of Dai Wei-Shan, legislative assistant of Wu Szu-Yao, STARTBOARD team and Dong Yo had an opportunity to meet with Chu Yu-Ying, the senior executive officer of Department of Cultural and Creative Development. Developing industries of cultural and creative in SEA, Dong Yo shared lots of information and experiences of Thailand and Taiwan creative industries. STARTBOARD team also added ideas as we encourage more industries in Southeast Asia and India.

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Chiang Chen-Yeh, the CEO and Founder of Dong Yo, shared information about cultural and creative industry.
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Chu Yu-Ying and Dai Wei-Shan paid attention to Chiang Chen-Yeh’s experiences.
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STARTBOARD team discussed more ideas.

With this meeting, STARTBOARD team hope it would be the next step to increase entrepreneurs’ investment between Taiwan, Southeast Asia and India.