ClearDekho @Mox Demo Day #5 | Get a perfect fit of eyewear from ClearDekho with just a few clicks !

On August, 21th 2018, STARTBOARD participated in Mox Demo Day, where 6 startup teams full of brilliant ideas pitch their products to senior investors.

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Founded by SOS Venture and Gmobi, Mox made its debut in December, 2015. As its name discloses, Mox is also known as Mobile Only Accelerator, making 24/7 dedication to nurture global startup teams in such fields as application, mobile services and online platform. Mox provide startups with top-notch mentors and resources with an eye to refining startup teams’ business models and eventually nailing it at emerging markets.’

Starting up is about creating a whole new business model that is innovative enough to disrupt the ecosystem; not about maximizing your income by adhering to old patterns.

Mox provides startup teams with opportunities to pitch themselves in front of the general public, government agencies and investors with laser-like perception.At Mox Demo Day, STARTBOARD also met up with six startups with promising future, seeking further possibilities of cooperation with big corporation and investors. The first startup team we desire to highlight is ClearDekho from India.

ClearDhkho is the first of such online prescription glasses business in India!Harnessing their keen observation well, ClearDhkho realizes that in India, more than  250 million people dwelling in remote areas and little towns get daily struggles to “see clearly.” On top of hectic traffic and the long distance they need to travel through, some prices of eyewear products exceed the reasonable price they set.

ClearDhkho also regards itself as Warby Parker for the India mass market, allowing target audience to purchase glasses with simply a few clicks at 7 US dollars. Aside from perks of saving your time and money, the good news is that ships and returns are all for free! Setting their sights on achieving 75% of the Indian population, ClearDhkho continues to expand the business, opening six to seven stores in India on a monthly basis!

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STARTBOARD with Singh Shivi, the co-founder from ClearDekho

Thailand Theme Night | Want to equip yourself with must-have know-how to work overseas or invest in other countries? Let’s see how specialists say! (Part 2)

Suzy Shih: A generation Z girl’s wisdom of working and living in an exotic culture

As the leader of Group Southeast Asia in a Japanese corporation, Suzy has equipped herself with strong soft skills in public speaking, effective negotiations and coordination with foreign partners. From her own experiences, she has listed some crucial points we cannot ignore if we ever want to expand career paths to other countries!

  1. Before you negotiate with foreign partners, stand in their shoes instead.
  2. Don’t let culture shock restrain yourself from gaining hands-on experiences.
  3. Focus your sights on things you truly believe.

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Anbert Lin: Advice from a senior investor has been a big shot in the arm to potenitial investors.

 

For those setting your sights on investing Thailand market, sit tight! Mr. Anbert Lin just shared his laser-like perception in making an investment!

  1. E-commerce

In recent years, Thailand’s e-commerce has been gaining popularity, which contributes to its rising value from 2.03 trillion baht in 2014 to 2.81 trillion baht in 2017. In this industry, LAZADA, Shopee could almost best describe the ecosystem, since they are the biggest two leaders in Thailand!

  1. Start-ups

To create more level playing fields for entrepreneurs, the importance of the ecosystem cannot be overestimated! Here are some trivial matters that enable us to see, Thailand’s startup market is quite glorious and could prosper in the near future.

In 2012, there’re only three officially funded startup companies with 2.1 M baht raised; nonetheless, from 2017, there are more than 90 startups founded in Thailand while 280M baht is raised for some brilliant ideas! Investment in a young company could be risky, so detailing inquiry and research become quite pivotal before making any decision!

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STARTBOARD @ 2018 IDEAS SHOW: A REAL SHOT IN THE ARM FOR STARTUP MARKET IN TAIWAN

STARTBOARD participated in 2018 IDEAS Show which were held on July 24 at NTUH International Convention Center. IDEAS Show is a competition for startups companies from different countries, including Taiwan, South Korea, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, and also Vietnam.

In this event, each of the startups delivered a 6-minute speech and there are also some exhibition booths to introduce the companies’ products. The event attracted both foreign and Taiwan’s startups who seek for resources and connections, also both local and foreign investors from each industry. Furthermore, it is STARTBOARD’s second time to join IDEAS Show. STARTBOARD is honored to meet and connect a lot of ASEAN-India startup companies in IDEAS Show. Through this event, STARTBOARD connects a total of 5 Southeast Asian startups who are interested to develop in Taiwan markets.

TechGrind, STARTBOARD’s good old friend, also paid a visit to Ideas Show!

The first company that we met is TechGrind from Bangkok, Thailand. TechGrind has teamed up with STARTBOARD since 2017, it’s our utmost pride and joy to participate in this grand event together!

Throughout the years, TechGrind have nurtured 10 startup teams, who are outstanding enough to separate themselves from the crowd. Take Kiidu for example. Kiidu provides all sorts of caregiving services to household, which has been deemed an urgent need across the world — since we’re living in an aging society. Just as its catchy slogan goes “kindest caregivers for the ones you love,” their services are quite catering to people who are always on the go, lacking the time to take care of their babies or elders.

In addition, TechGrind also runs TechGrind Hub, which helds events, workshops, conferences. Holding common values and beliefs, STARTBOARD and TechGrind will make constant efforts hand in hand, looking for the common good for our startup teams!

1STARTBOARD team with Pavel Laletin (the second one from the left), the co-founder of TechGrind.

Get your fresh products 24/7 online from Pushkart, a delivery startup from the Philippines!!

Pushkart, based in the Philippines, provides online delivery such as groceries, foods, and goods to the consumers’ house in Manila. Offering such 24-hour delivery services in the area where traffic chaos has been perceived common is an intelligent decision, but why and how did the ideas come on the table? During a casual conversation between two good old friends, Josh Aragon and Bryan Reyes, they sensed the crux of problems — people’s hectic lifestyle, congested traffic in Metro Manila and a long queue of people waiting for payment as well as the time consumed by exiting a parking lot — all sorts of nuisances can freak you out! Therefore, targeting busy workers who have no time to go for groceries, the two brilliant business minds then commit to making online delivery services possible, and here came Pushkart! What’s better, they don’t limit their services only within walking distance to consumers’ location.

Nowadays, Pushkart continues to cooperate with a well-known supermarket from the Philippines, Fish Market and delivers to all areas throughout Metro Manila. In their services, not only do they guarantee consumers the best and fresh products, but they also charge them with legit and just prices!

Are you still anxious about the lack of job opportunities? With the presence of Empleo, job hunting no longer puts you at the wit’s end!

Empleo also originated from the Philippines; it’s a network that tap short-term jobs from individual and enterprises and connect them to trained individuals. Empleo connects the workers to consumers based on consumers’ needs. For example, if a consumer needs someone to fix their generator, then it will connect them to the workers based on the location, skill, and rate. Empleo also has partnership with establishments like restaurants and waste management services that will help them deliver certain wastes to manufacturing industries as alternative raw materials.

With their interesting ideas blossoming, Empleo is also going to apply for STARTBOARD’s batch member, leaving footprints in Taiwan! Now that taking part-time jobs is gone viral among the younger generation, let’s wait and see how Empleo’s platform will work out for Taiwan market.

2STARTBOARD with  Michael George Lim, the Chief Technical Officer from Pushkart (left) and  Mark Balmes, the founder and CEO from Empleo (middle).

Gosama amazed us with a complete omnichannel sales system, which tears the wall between online and brick-and-mortar stores down!

Gosama J.S.C , an ambitious adventurer from Vietnam who offers both retailers consumers with delicate online-offline experiences. To make their omnichannel ecosystem safe and complete,Gosama utilizes blockchain-based platform and even develop Gowallet (Gosama version of e-money) to integrate their services. If these notions are not concrete enough, Gosama has an infographic to offer:

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4STARTBOARD with Gosama team, the gentleman on the left is the product designer, Alex Hoang, while the lady on the right is Joanna Chilicka, customer relations manager of Gosama.

EZQ, a word of mouth that would be a real shot in the arm regarding comprehensive ecosystem for online business in Vietnam.

EZQ is a comprehensive ecosystem for online merchants, shipper, and buyers. It includes a sales management and promotion tool, and also a straightforward delivery tool. For now, they have two applications which are Snail and Crab respectively.Snail is an application that helps freelance shippers to find delivery orders.As for Crab, it’s an application that helps people to manage the online store easily on the phone.

5STARBOARD with EZQ team, Lily Nguyen, the CPO / Co-founder (on the left )and Tom Nguyen, the founder (on the right).