2019 STARTBOARD VIETNAM THEME NIGHT

On Tuesday 26th March 2019, STARTBOARD team has successfully delivered the Vietnam Theme Night to partners and youngsters in who we expect their contribution to the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the near future.

The night was a spark with the presence of famous Vietnamese entrepreneurs in Taiwan who have helped to introduce the startup opportunity to over 80 audiences, most of which are Vietnamese. After a short warm speech from STARTBOARD representatives, Ms. Mandy Nguyen, the director of ecosystem development from Startup Vietnam Foundation has quickly described the prosperity of entrepreneurship activities in Vietnam recently as well as how it helped to improve the life of local people.

 

Mr. Le Van Khoi, the General Manager of Tokyo Vietnam and our special guest from Ishowlife e-commerce, Ms. Anna Nguyen, have also had such inspirational and informative presentations in terms of how to establish an operation in Vietnam and Taiwan respectively. If any student wants to go further down the track, they would find the insight analysis of Vietnamese’s Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Challenge in the discussion of Mr.Dee, Vice president of Vietnam Student Association, and Mr. Alex, Founder & CEO of the technological startup called Innoviz, hard to miss.

In the Q&A section, all the keynote speakers have openly shared their extraordinary career stories and proved the possibility of success in business for South East Asian right here in Taiwan with the support from Government, University and also various incubators like STARTBOARD. They also received a lot of attention from audiences and investors, who hopefully might soon become their partner in the near future.

 

STARTBOARD @ Haoshi Demo Day

Thanks to Maycham ‘s invitation, STARTBOARD was invited to attend Haoshi Demo Day as a member on March 22nd! This event is held by Haoshi Accelerator Seed Program, Haoshi Foundation.

Haoshi Demo Day

Although the program was only launched in November 2018, Haoshi has managed to support and introduce 11 highly promising innovative startups in food and agriculture to the general public, government agencies and various investors. Until now, Haoshi remains the first and only accelerator in Taiwan that dedicates to these sectors. Through this meaningful program, the Haoshi Foundation expected to boost creative business models and new advanced technologies in order to address the alarming problems in agriculture.

Among 11 participations, four were the technological enterprises (MeansGood, LEDA technology, ID Water and AgriWeather), four were the food enterprises (Spark Protein, Simpleplus, Amazingrace and Assign Biomedical Science) and the rest were the green farming ones (Beemax, Roksn, and Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea). However, they have all worked on the solution to certain current social issues such as health care, food safety and security or productivity with years of experience.

The second madam from the left in both pictures is the Chairman of the National Development Council, Ms. Chen Mei Ling. We’re honored to meet up with her in this event.

Especially, this time, the eleven startups also had a chance to improve themselves with sharp international perceptions from Dr. David Acheson, the former Chief Medical Officer of the Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Center of the US Food and Drug Administration, Mr. Amir Zaidman from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub – Isreal and Ms. Isabelle Decitre from ID Capital and Future Food Asia – Singapore. Hopefully, given this tremendous support, these Taiwanese entrepreneurs would soon reach out to the world market while keeping their initial goodness to sustainability development.

 

Welcome our new batch —- QSearch, and let their state-of-the-art technology remedy your “tedious” marketing problems!

(by Alicia Syu)

Are you at your wit’s end when it comes to your social media marketing strategies? Do you wanna get down to the nitty-gritty regarding your target audience online but all the analysis work just seems…. so tedious?

Well, don’t lose heart, turn to STARTBOARD’s new batch, QSearch, who is going to kill your marketing pain points!

As a top-notch specialist in data analysis, QSearch has created its very own tactic to handle nuisances you always find yourself get stuck, which is the Facebook text search and social listening dashboard. Their services basically break down in the following ways:

  • Social Listening Dashboard With Alerts

Via this technique, you can instantly manage your Facebook content according to your brand image. If you’re not so sure, then let QSearch help you create one-of-a-kind communication strategy!

  • Trending Topic’s Directional Analysis

Hindsight biases are always fatal to social media marketing. If you’re panicked at the prospect of any human bias may ruin your perfectly launched media, you have to give this feature a try and improve your company’s decision process!

  • Find Opinion Leader to Co-create Content

Key opinion leaders, to the extent, play a role in the empire of digital marketing but whether you are able to take advantage of it, is a totally different bowl of wax. If you’re still not curtained who may have the right influences on your brand, QSearch would be your partner in crime!

Aside from its professional services, QSearch’s efforts in big data have been well recognized by startup competitions in a roll. They have won the first place in 2014 Asia Beat, 2014 SeedStars World in Taipei and 2014 E27 Echelon Taipei, to name but a few.

Above all, QSearch was just invited by Facebook and Information Media Development Authority(IMDA) in Singapore to be in one out of 11 teams at Data-driven Startup Station! For the following few months, they will go through a lot of improvements under regulatory sandbox in Singapore. Let’s wait and see!

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WE ARE HIRING! JOINING STARTBOARD RIGHT NOW!

We are a relative young team (everyone under 35 years old), highly involved in all STARTBOARD related activities, who always take huge responsibility not only for ourselves but also for the team. If you are passionate about startups and love the unpredicted pace; if you like to be committed to the team and are willing to take challenge, you are more than welcome to join us

STARTBOARD’s Ambassador

Responsibilities

  • Devising creative public relations/business development strategies that fit company profile
  • Developing effective plans using appropriate strategies and tactics
  • Organizing and coordinating events and meetings

Requirement

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable as a public speaker
  • Able to use English as the main language at work is a must
  • Experience in coordinating and managing effective business activities or events through various channels will be an advantage
  • Chinese skill will be an advantage

Benefit

  • Opportunities to attend important events/meetings, and network with key decision makers from different industries.
  • Opportunities to learn insightful perspectives and hands-on experiences regarding startup markets in ASEAN and India as well as Taiwan through developing market strategies

STARTBOARD’s Marketing intern

*Working slots can be arranged according to the intern’s schedule, while the required working hours is minimum 12 hours per week. After two months, the intern is eligible to become a part-time.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in marketing and promotional activities, and other administrative work
  • Prepare and create marketing materials
  • Assist in projects planning and tracking
  • Assist the management team in business development, organizing meetings and making minutes

Requirements

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable as a public speaker
  • Multitasking while being efficient to track each project’s progress, and being responsible for the assigned task
  • Comfortable in using powerpoint and remote working tool such as Evernote
  • Fluent in English as in spoken and listening

Benefit

  • Flexible working schedule
  • Employee gathering lunch/dinner once per month
  • Opportunities to attend important events/meetings, and network with key decision makers from different industries.

Go get yourself an interview opportunity by sending your CV>>contact@startboard.co

STARTBOARD創立於2017年,致力於經營在台灣的東協印度創業社群,「創業之夜」是專屬於東協印度創業家交流的聚會,至今已辦11場,希望透過這些傑出的東協印度創業家的分享,讓台灣新創圈更多元,也讓這些創業家的經驗能鼓勵更多想創業留學生、新二代追隨夢想。同時為鼓勵更多國際人才留台,我們協助在台灣的東協印度同學創業,整合創業所需辦公空間、創業家簽證、公司設立、產業導師、專業智財、法律、會計諮詢輔導,提供落地所需的一站式服務,解決國際團隊在台創業的痛點。

我們是一個很年輕的團隊(35歲以下),強調高度參與及責任感,若你(妳)喜歡新創的節奏不設限且充滿熱情,使命感超強也願意接受挑戰, 我們歡迎你的加入!

STARTBOARD 行銷實習生
*可依課表彈性排定上班時間,每周至少排班12小時,兩個月後可以轉工讀*
工作內容
  • 公司及其他事業群品牌形象推廣、營運事務
  • 協助專案計畫及追蹤
  • 與營運團隊一同參與對外開發、合作會議,製作會議紀錄
  • 社群、行銷文案撰寫
條件要求
  • 善與人接觸溝通和談判,就是有讓人想聽你說的魅力
  • 有責任感,能身兼多項任務,有效率地掌控並追蹤專案時程
  • 擅長使PPT、遠距工作軟體如evernote (如擅長使用Photoshop者更佳)
  • 英文聽說流利者,開口講有自信
公司福利
  • 彈性工作時間
  • 每月一次員工聚餐
  • 接觸各領域的產官學資源,人脈就是錢脈
STARTBOARD 專案經理
職務性質:全職
需求人數 1人
上班地點:台北市大安區仁愛路三段99號(社會創新實驗中心)    
管理責任:需負擔管理責任,且直接管理人數約 4 人以下
*希望能兩週內開始上班
工作內容
  • 招募及輔導東南亞印度創業團隊
  • 定期追蹤創業團隊近況,並提供其不同資訊及媒合機會,協助在台落地
  • 國內合作夥伴(產官學),東南亞六國加速器夥伴之開發及維繫
  • 帶領實習生進行社群(FB,Blog,Linkedin)及活動企劃、執行(theme night、和其他專案)
  • 協助辦公室行政事務的完成
條件要求
  • 具新創相關工作經驗者優先
  • 英文聽說讀寫精通
  • 團結力量大,永遠是teamwork優先
  • 使命感超強,對參與新創公司充滿熱情,願意接受挑戰
  • 善與人接觸溝通和談判,就是有讓人想聽你說的魅力
  • 有責任感,能身兼多項任務,有效率地掌控並追蹤專案時程
  • 擅長使PPT、遠距工作軟體如evernote (如擅長使用Photoshop者更佳)
  • 會illustrator加分
福利制度
彈性工作時間,每日工作八小時
保證年終一個月起跳
到職日第一天即享3天特休,其他比照勞基法
每年享有 10 天 Remote Work Day,可自由選擇工作時間和地點
每月一次員工聚餐, 接觸各領域的產官學資源,人脈就是錢脈
◆ 獎金/禮品類
1.年終獎金
2.三節獎金/禮品
◆ 請/休假制度
1.週休二日
2.特休/年假

懷抱著滿腔熱情的你/妳,快快投遞履歷吧!>>> contact@startboard.co

 

 

2018 Malaysia Theme Night

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On Nov 26th, 2018, we’re so glad to make Malaysia Theme Night alive on stage, and we are genuinely thankful to Anwar Udzir, Representative of Malaysian Friendship and Trade Centre, to give an opening speech as a special guest. Besides, we also invited three top-notch lecturers to share hands-on experiences with us. In this package, let’s have a quick recap of the main points from our keynote speakers!

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Blockchain can do more for human good!

Will Lu ,CBO of OwlTing Group, walked us through what blockchain can do for people or business with his own hands-on experiences. Many of us may get the concept of blockchain from bitcoin but in effect blockchain can serve for various purposes. Take OwlTing’s agriculture project for example. With the help of blockchain technology, they assist over 1500 farmers in Taiwan to monitor soil quality and humidity as well as crop, whose data are updated promptly on to the internet, ensuring customers would know what they just consumed. By doing so, Will stated, not only have they devised an immutable and transparent traceability as well as a way to find the root cause, but they have built a close bond with local farmers by visiting them and observing the real problems behind the scene.

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By taking a close look at your target, you can be famous for more than fifteen minutes.

As a Malaysian student in Taiwan, Ccwhyao always has a dream of his own — to share bits and pieces of his life in Taiwan from the perspective of a foreign student. Sticking to his passion, Ccwhyao initiated a Youtube channel with his classmate, which is called Kao Bei Cold. This channel puts cultural differences between Taiwan and Malaysia under the spotlight in an interesting way, which constitutes the main reason for its popularity among youngsters. Ccwhyao’s got the piece of advice for young people— if you’re so enthused by the notion of creating videos and channel of your own, kickstart one right now, since the best time for you to start is when you’re still a student, when you’re not bound by professional obligations, and most important of all, when failures lecture you with valuable experiences.

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Malaysia, with its diversity and prosperous opportunities, is your next new world to conquest.

Dressing in a formal suit, standing upright on the stage, Yeinnie Tan wowed the audience with her crucial insights into the business environment of Malaysia. As the director of Malaysia Chamber of commerce in Taipei, she kindly introduces numerous resources and opportunities for Taiwanese to explore. She offered such resources as Commerce Development Research Institute and Malaysia Friendship And Trade Center, which we can refer to if we want to start a business in Malaysia. On top of that, she emphasized the importance of finding the correct methods and tools precisely since even if you bury yourself in endless work, the world still cannot find you and people would even not know your existence. Her suggestions indicated that after we located our dream job or interests and that we’re ready to set foot in Malaysia, we still need to take time and figure out how to connect all the strengths such as the diversity in languages and races, and map out the long-term plan in Malaysia.

PokaYoke signed the member agreement with STARTBOARD!

Internationally recognized for providing one-stop website design services, Ananta just officially turned in the member agreement with STARTBOARD.

As the founder of PokaYoke and Consult Dr., Ananta stated that he would register a company under the name of  PokaYoke in both India and Taiwan, while Consult Dr. would continually serve as a supportive resource to PokaYoke.

On top of that, we’re also in a mellow mood knowing that PokaYoke’s services are gaining traction — Currently, this startup is cooperating with the clinics and travel agencies in Vietnam as well as Mexico, with an eye to promoting online reservation systems.

Even when Ananta’s business scheme is on the right track, his type A fiber still keeps driving him forward. For the following two months, he’ll be staying in and exploring Singapore and Vietnam markets. Additionally, in the upcoming July, he is even going to Belgium for educational purpose! It’s undoubted that by keeping himself updated on the latest trends in platform industry, Ananta will continue to wow the target audience with his thoughtful and well-adjusted services!

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Triple Matchmaking Event @ National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

On Jan 14th, STRTBOARD was invited to attend Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs (TRIPLE ) matchmaking event at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.  As a lead player in Taiwan’s startup market, TRIPLE has combined the benefits of SI/ODM, accelerators and research institutes in Taiwan with an eye to providing startup teams with designing, marketing, and researching services. Aside from solid assistance to startup teams, TRIPLE has also been making constant efforts to increase multilateral communication, which is why we got the ticket to the matchmaking event!

During the event, TRIPLE invited top-notch executives from  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) to walk us through their experiences in India and Taiwan and the current startup trends. Established in 1958, IIT Bombay has been making progress along the way, emerging as one of the top technical universities around the globe. Their constant efforts in engineering education and research are world-renowned and with that, they have both built up cooperation with peer universities and institutes as well as created a niche for innovation through their umbrella organization named Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE).

The manager of SINE also took the floor and introduced themselves. Fixing its eyes on fostering entrepreneurship and nurturing tech startups, SINE administers a business incubator providing “scale to scale” support for tech-based startup teams and it manages to facilitate the conversion of research activity into entrepreneurial ventures.

Last but not least, there’re several startup teams from India that grabbed our attention. By and large, most of their services and products concentrate on rooting out social problems in their country with the implementation of cutting-edge technology. Take Kaaenaat for example. Bewaring the problem of traffic chaos in India, which may lead to tragic accidents from time to time, they made good use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to cut down on the possibility of a car crash. Also, Combat Robotics India Private Limited aims at saving more lives with robot designing.

It’s our pleasure to meet up with institutions with the same ideas at heart for creating a holistic and friendly startup ecosystem; also, getting to know more about startup market in India gives us a clearer idea regarding how to cooperate with teams from this country, which is the icing on the cake. STARTBOARD genuinely looks forward to further collaboration with Indian fellows we met in the event!

STARTBOARD X BRAVO iDEAS

It’s our pleasure to meet up with 創意點子BRAVO iDEAS, exchanging different insights into the Southeast Asia market!
Specialized in AR, image recognition and route guidance, BRAVO iDEAS has patented technology in 48 countries worldwide, including the States, China, Japan, and EU, etc.

To delve into what we’re discussing during the meeting, please visit our Facebook fanpage:

https://www.facebook.com/STARTBOARD.co/posts/650886885330022?xts%5B0%5D=68.ARAXUvKfVINyPpV0thPwM__DGbhf7Ure3z54LtJ7hBpKl6oKTRfHOsHDy2hLXepU8ovoZOSu4Ch6YxxDdA7lTbI4bKFZU18ott9kQWp4eZdBx7ekMtnnn11_m6bGqioL4-1vGh9GO-9Nqq6Gc9A3fWQNkX-8NRrlQm23bzLXo1ruicy1ABOaJESKPCMoN-iJEtWlmAEumPkw0zg1suISvEOrCv-ts7jwYpnAO5aJlr0I7xq-kbY-f5r6uRsKb2bs1OYKJXX1ztz6EAwRZg9Bw6bOGqbmNER-qC73Tii54XMHxA9Xf8PGnf04v82M5q6XHiloAL2AfpGDcJkO99hhNVs&tn=-R

STARTBOARD X INDONESIAN ECONOMIC AND TRADE OFFICE TO TAIPEI

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STARTBOARD was honored to meet up with the representative of Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to Taipei, Didi Sumedi!
During the two hours of pure delight, Aside from inviting him to join us in Indonesia Theme Night, we also exchanged insights into Indonesia’s startup market with Mr. Didi Sumedi, receiving positive feedback and constructive suggestions for what STARTBOARD has been doing.
Mr. Didi Sumedi advocated that international students should grab the opportunities while they’re studying in Taiwan for Taiwan is bursting with innovative ideas and a startup ecosystem that is increasingly friendly to foreign friends!
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五位優秀創業家及專家分享經驗逾百人參與

被譽為「新南向留學生創業新港口」的STARTBOARD,16日在社會創新基地盛大舉辦了「印尼創業之夜」,邀請各行業傑出的印尼講者,針對印尼及台灣創業市場進行精闢的產業分析,期待透過此創業講座,幫助更多對印尼市場感到好奇的人了解印尼產業動向,並找到具體方向。同時,也希望參與者對於在台創業的印尼團隊有更多的認識。

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現場參與者超過一百二十人,甚至排不進會場的觀眾也都搬來椅子,坐在會場外全程參與

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駐台北印尼經濟貿易代表處代表蘇孟帝Didi Sumedi到場支持

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曾獲頒2016年台灣十大傑出青年之一的何景榮現為逢甲大學助理教授

當天由駐台北印尼經濟貿易代表處代表蘇孟帝Didi Sumedi擔任開場致詞嘉賓,台灣新二代、2016年台灣十大傑出青年之一的何景榮接棒,向台下觀眾說明印尼的電子商務及數位經濟發展趨勢。接著由STARTBOARD旗下的新創團隊Marine Highway Tech創辦人L. Tri. Wijaya,分享印尼海運如何透過物聯網發展智慧交通應用;再來是提供穆斯林友善餐廳資訊的APP—Halal XYZ共同創辦人 Putu Aditya,分享印尼學生在台創業的經驗;以及身為印尼華僑,來台求學後,曾擔任印尼在台最大電信商執行長特助,現為美商公司行銷經理的Ryan Huang分享印尼的資通訊科技及其未來發展。最後,則是由擁有豐富印尼電商經驗,臉書粉絲專業擁10萬粉絲的Youtuber,ISheEra Technology Company的創辦人吳俊星,分享印尼數位行銷趨勢。

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Marine Highway Tech創辦人L. Tri. Wijaya目前就讀中央大學博士班

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Halal XYZ共同創辦人 Putu Aditya畢業於台科大,現於台灣就業

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Ryan Huang在台畢業後,曾任印尼在台最大電信商執行長特助,現為美商公司行銷經理

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吳俊星於電商的豐富經驗,幫助許多台灣產品推廣至印尼

STARTBOARD創立於2017年,致力於在台灣經營東協印度創業社群,「創業之夜」是專屬於東協印度創業家交流的聚會,至今已辦11場,希望透過這些傑出的東協印度創業家的分享,讓台灣新創圈更多元,也讓這些創業家的經驗能鼓勵更多想創業留學生、新二代追隨夢想。

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