分類: Events

Last Friday, we are glad to host our Investor meetup event.It’s our honored to invite four investors (#華陽創投 / #利易管顧 / #基石創投 / #Rainmaking )and six startup teams. (Formosation/居家整聊室/AcXport/WillStudy/傾心陪玩/Lockists)

#Formosation is dedicated to promote environmental sustainablility and enhance dental public health. Its product can assist public building oral health habit.

居家整聊室 is a platform for people who need cleaning service. The feature is that 居家整聊室 via chatting to be close to customer’s life. They listen to customer’s demands and provide a better living environment.

Acxport 動動無限 is a platform for all kinds of sport. In Taiwan, there are a few people who love some rare sports. AcXport wants to make these sports more accessible and convenient.

留學計畫 WillStudy focuses on building the ecosphere for students who want to study abroad. It includes information integration and resource matching. Even after graduation, students can still get help from WillStudy. WillStudy will provide resources to help them find a job.

#傾心陪玩 is founded by a group of senior players and game experts. They provide the platform for users to find “friends” to play with them in the game. The business is successful in Taiwan, and now it wants to expand to other countries.

Lockists 機車共享平台 is a motorcycle sharing platform. Through the app, users can give their motorcycles to Lockists when they aren’t using it. Via idle resources, they create the business opportunities.We hopes that through the Investor meetup event, we can boost the interaction between startup teams and enterprises. Startup teams can receive the fund they need, meanwhile, Taiwan entrepreneurs can be encouraged to #invest.

If you are a foreign student who wants to stay in Taiwan after graduation, you might think about finding a job in Taiwan, but have you ever think about you can “start a business”, too.

Founding a Startup and building business seems difficult and you might doubt if you have all the necessary qualifications for the task. You have heard about the failure of startups and don’t know if it’s worth to try it yourself. But did you know that most people don’t even try and instead just live with the thought of “what if I had”?

This time, we are glad to cooperate with #NCTUOIA (#國立陽明交通大學國際事務處). During the event, we share how to solve the barrier (visa, language, resource, etc) to achieve the startup dream. Hoping after this event, we can encourage more and more foreign students think about “#STARTUP”, might be one of the choice.

✈Many companies face the dilemma of not being able to expand their business scale after the growth period. In order to solve this kind of problem. Yesterday, It’s our honored to organize the event with New Taipei City government (來趣新北金發局) and Startup Terrace. Let startups understand the prerequisite knowledge of entrepreneurship, and arrange for startups (Acxport 動動無限運動職人專業媒合, Alion 日本 生活 資訊 趨勢, etc) to display products on the spot to get each other opportunities for cross-industry exchanges.

🧑‍💼Also,Sincerely invited Assistant Vice President of SAGA China Mangement Company (#國聯創投)- Ms. Susie Hong, Accountant of ChengJiun CAPs & Associates (#城鈞聯合會計師事務所) – Mr. Jim and Our CEO- Mr. Uniform sharing three themes that the startup team cares about (How to edit an investment briefing, How do startups plan their finances, and Patent layout of startups).
Hope through this event and networking, the startups can absorb relevant knowledge and create cooperation opportunities.

Last Friday, we are glad to organized this event with WORKSPOT Taipei and 海華文教基金會 (Overseas Compatriot Culture and Education Foundation ), and it’s honored to invited The founder of Three Idiots Restaurant】- Andy Singh Arya and【Legal consultant of Louis International Patent Office】-Arpita Dutta, served as guest speakers.

👨‍🍳Andy sharing how he become an entrepreneur, and encourage the audiences “believe what you are doing”. This is the key for the entrepreneur who will be success.

👩‍💼Arpita used risk assessement as topic, analyzing what kind of barriers or issues will the foreign entrepreneur faced, when they starting business in Taiwan (EX: Funding, Laws & Visa, etc). Let the audience know the risks of starting a business in Taiwan, In order to develop a more comprehensive business strategy.

🏣Sincerely thanks WORKSPOT Taipei organized this event together, and provided the wonderful space, if you are startups seeking an office, WORKSPOT Taipei location in the middle of Taipei city, you can easily get there by #MRT. WORKSPOT Taipei might be your best solution.

Last Wednesday, we sincerely invited the founder of QSearch(Instant Search)– Mr. Shih-En Chou. QSearch uses social big data to help customer comprehensively analyze the behavior of global Facebook users, the most simple and intuitive system operation can be done at one time from finding audiences, understanding audiences, choosing community leaders, and promoting brand influence. In this event, Mr. Shih-En Chou sharing how did they expand the Singapore market and advantage (EX: Tax incentives & Startup subsidy, etc). Meanwhile, they use digital tools as a topic, analyzing the digital tools of each business model, (#B2B Google Trends, #B2CCommunity trend analysis). You can use these digital tools to understand local wording, analyze the relationship between competing products and local market needs. Also, understanding what local KOL are focusing on. In the end, you can use this information to draw up the most suitable local business marketing plan.

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The digital business is booming in recent years since a lot of people are looking to enter the ASEAN market. And the Thai market is one of the most desirable countries for Taiwanese startups and SMEs。
We STARTBOARD and the founder of Daione were glad to visits Tainan with the 臺南創業育成在贏地 Tainan WinWin incubator . During this event, they shared how they expand their business internationally.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic recession is happening around the world. These startups came up with different solutions to pivot their business. Daione transformed their global marketing strategy to domestic marketing from the tourism industry to cross-border e-commerce sales.

Also, the event have invited three VCs to start a one-on-one meeting with the local startup team. The professional 15-minute consultation sessions provided by 創夢市集 DIT Startup, 識富天使新創加速計畫 and 聯合報 . And they guide the startups from business model, customer analysis, marketing techniques, technology integration, market competitor analysis to fundraising suggestions, etc. They unreservedly impart their accumulated experience over the years to every startups , so make every entrepreneur has earn a lot.

This is the event for the International workshop series from 臺南創業育成在贏地 (WINWIN Incubator) . They not only provides several entrepreneurial assistance, but also local and central entrepreneurial resources. They plan to become the cradle of innovation and technology in Tainan in near future.

It is a great honor for STARTBOARD to participate in the 2020 Yushan Forum as one of the keynote speakers. We talk about “Forging A Resilient Future Together”
Geographically, ASEAN countries are adjacent to Taiwan, but most Taiwanese do not have a deep understanding of our neighboring countries.

Regional cooperation in Asia is a powerful move to forge a resilient future TOGETHER and overcome the global challenges together in the midst of the pandemic and severe international problems. One of STARTBOARD’s core values ​​is hastening international cooperation and building an entrepreneur-friendly ecosystem for foreigners in Taiwan.

In the panel, Uniform Lin, STARTBOARD CEO, mentioned a point of view as a startup incubator contributor and how we spark innovative ideas to solve global challenges. From our experiences, we understand the gap between an idea and a global solution.
At last, we are grateful to 臺灣亞洲交流基金會 Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation for the invitation.

Through the powerful influence of Yushan Forum, we hope our talk would inspire others to rethink about our startup ecosystem and know how we could co-nurture those startups together.
We wish when the next billion-dollar and global problem-solving idea is born, we can guide them, bring that idea to the global stage, and create value to the society.

(Photo Credit: 臺灣亞洲交流基金會 Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation )

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In order to enhance female entrepreneurial participation and boost the business competitiveness of women-led startups, the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA), Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) of Chinese Taipei and Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (CSMEs) of Indonesia co-host the event on August 26^th-27^th through virtual ways. Mr. Hanung Harimba Rachman, Deputy Minister for Financing, Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprise of Indonesia, and Ms. Pei-Ti Hu, Deputy Director General, Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs of Chinese Taipei have joined in the event. Apart from that, there were 9 speakers in the workshop, and STARTBOARD are also the partners in this workshop, we provide two high-quality lecturers not only guide the female entrepreneurs. but also share their experience of starting a business. The first lecturer is Romona, the founder of Share 4 Impact, whose startup project has been selected by women’s startup lab from Silicon Valley in 2016. And another one is Hans, the founder of Ontoco, who has provided consulting, training, and coaching for achievement-oriented clients worldwide.

This workshop aside from the speakers, more than 40 more participants, and they from all over the ASIA, such as Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and other APEC economies have participated in the workshop.

【The Importance of empowering women entrepreneurs】

Mr. Hanung Harimba Rachman, Deputy Minister for Financing of CSMEs and Ms. Pei-Ti Hu, Deputy Director General of SMEA opened the workshop with a speech. “CSME of Indonesia make an effort on providing services for women entrepreneurs, and we hope that all the participants in women-led start-up workshop can treasure this platform to learn and seize this opportunity to exchange information and networking” indicated Mr. Hanung Harimba Rachman.

“As women entrepreneurs’ role in economic development has become more and more important, it is clear that every government needs to ensure a gender-friendly entrepreneurial environment in their respective economies,” said Ms. Pei-Ti Hu.
“We know that the potential of women entrepreneurs has not yet been fully unleashed and that by empowering women entrepreneurs in the APEC economies, we can contribute to the region’s overall inclusive growth and share prosperity,” continued Ms. Hu, as she emphasized the significance of women empowerment and the essential goal of the workshop.

Romona

We care, we share, together we Impact. This is the core value and the reason why Romonastarted her own business. Share 4 Impact encourages people to share their talents by opening face-to-face sharing sessions. At the beginning of her sharing, she talks about the digital transformation because of covid-19. Due to the Epidemic, many offline activities have been canceled, Even the world’s most iconic Consumer Electronics Show was forced to cancel. But it transformed into a dedicated exhibition mode. And there have more and more offline campaigns that have altered into online ones. It’s would be the trend in the future. As a result, outreach to media and buyers became very important. After that, Romona shared about a project event called “WiSE 24”, and how it helps women’s startups build their brands and outreach to others in the global. In the event, there has an online brand page, which is a platform for startups to outreach others when having online activities.

Moreover, the press kit on the brand page made it easier for the press, business, and buyers to reach out to the startups. And the platform having more than 80,000 medias from all over the world which could help startups team connect to the media easier. In the end, Romona encouraged all participants to use LinkedIn into their best BD partners, because there are over 650 million people on it. “why we are a startup and why we are an entrepreneur, the answer is that we want to make an impact to the world. And how to make it depends on us. All the female leaders, we are the one” said Romona.

Hans

Hans has over 30 years of corporate guidance experience. How to prepare before climbing up the mountain of being an entrepreneur and being successful? Hans indicated that stamina, work habits and team inspirations are three keys elements. Stamina includes resource’s stamina, team’s stamina, and entrepreneur’s own stamina. And about work habits, Hans stated that entrepreneurs need to pick their own working hours, so they wouldn’t over-work.

Moreover, they should care about their family and health as well. Third, when it comes to team inspiration, confidences and motivations are two essential requirements in a team. “As a leader, leading by inspiration is significant” said Hans. At last, he also emphasized that all the entrepreneurs should do the things that are playful and fun for them.

Conclusion

In the Q＆A section, all entrepreneurs’ questions are very diverse and enthusiastic such as how interaction and online events will change due to Covid-19? or how to reinforce core value through day by day practice. And the speakers have responded passionately to those questions. After the workshop, STARTBOARD, as an ASEAN incubator in Taiwan, we hope that it can efficiently enhance female entrepreneurial participation and help eliminate the limitations for women’s enterprisers. Moreover, we regard it as important for Southeastern countries to have cross border collaborations on assisting businesswomen.

At last, STARTBOARD is glad to have Romona and Hans, two of the excellent speakers in the event, and we hope to see more and more female entrepreneurs starting their own business in global. And STARTBOARD is always here to be the support for them.

STARTBOARD is honored to attend 2030 Global Brands Summit. This Forum was talking about the planning for Taiwan’s future prosperity. In the following 10 years, Taiwan not only focuses on upgrading Taiwan’s industry but optimizing the innovative industrial investment environment.

The summit invited distinguished guests to share their point of view, includes Chairman of GBMA #全球品牌管理協會會), Louis Chen, Legislator, Fan Yun, Head of Audit of #KPMG, Jeff Chen, Director General of Dep. Of Industrial Development of National Development Council #國家發展委員會會), Mr. Fang-Guan Jan and Deputy Director General Ms. Qiong-Hua, Chen, President of #ITRI, Mr. Edwin Liu, Chairman of #TSC, Mr. Zhi-Hui Guo, President of #TINVA, Mr. Ji-Zu Gao.

It was an insightful panel discussion to hear from the market leaders, government officers, and professors to share their point of view on capital market 2.0, portray the future, and connect the organizations with the central government. Mr. Jan highlighted that it will be more complex to handle the issue in the future.

Sincerely thanks 資策會 invited STARTBOARD to organize this event together and share the tips of Thai entrepreneurship with Taiwanese start-ups who want to develop locally.

In this webinar event, we are honored to invite the Chairman of Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Thailand- Stanley Kang, Managing Partner of Louis Management Consultant (國萬泰國法律顧問公司)- Raymond Yu and STARTBOARD Thailand Office-Director- Randy Lin as a mentor to share Thailand’s entrepreneurial advantages and how foreign companies develop in Thailand.

Chairman of JFCCT- Stanley Kang analyzed from an economic perspective how the Thai market has changed under the impact of the epidemic. By explaining the current Thai policy and trend, that startups can use the “business transformation” and follow the Thai trend, let startups can find the perfect balance between health and economics.

Managing Partner of Louis Management Consultant- Raymond used law as a topic, sharing that Taiwanese companies need to know when they start business in Thailand, such as intellectual property, trademark establishment, and local partner holdings, so startups can compare information through risk assessment and compliance.

STARTBOARD Thailand Office-Director- Randy Lin focused on the industrial side. By explaining the habits of Thai consumers and the characteristics of various industries, that startups can gradually understand the Thai market, and can formulate corresponding business strategies based on the localization of business models.

Through this event, we hope we can keep bringing the latest Thailand’s entrepreneurial environment and advantages to potential Taiwanese startups.