分類: Events

Putu Aditya: To survive as a startup, you need more than passion and persistence.

As the co-founder of Halal XYZ, a startup helps to eradicate problems for Muslims in Taiwan, Putu has a lot to share about establishing a startup from the ground up. Their story all started from a simple idea – if they needed to organize database of Halal restaurants in Taiwan then why didn’t they make an App and save all the nuisances? With the idea to improve Muslims’ convenience in Taiwan, they gather a large amount of information and solutions to discuss. “ While you may know your idea and goals, you should still be prepared that it’s not gonna be easy in the long run.” Even though going through obstacles is a must when we start from scratch, Putu advised all the youngsters that as we could seek for help from mentor, school’s advisors and listen to experiences from who started before, that would open up our network in startup community, which further create a niche for us to stick to our dreams.

Ryan Huang: When we slow down and see how telecommunication plays a role in our life

“How important telecommunication means in business?” is the first question that Ryan raised as stepping on stage. “It makes our everyday life, shortens the distance between us.” Simple as it may seem, we normally ignore how telecommunication plays a role in our daily life.  For example, we may never think about why we still hang on to use traditional phones in this smartphone era. Ryan made it clear — since when we bury ourselves in the sea of telecommunication in our daily life, we need to release us from it a bit from time to time, and if we replace smartphones with outdated phones in our office, probably the companies’ privacy will be left with nothing.

Even though smartphone seems so convenient when we’re dealing with day-to-day business utilizing it, Ryan’s speech also raised a good concern to care about ourselves inward when using the up-to-date technology wisely.

Antonius Sunarto: Knowing your customer is the core.

Antonius Sunarto, the founder of ISheEra Technology, is a Chinese Indonesian familiar with both Indonesian and Taiwanese culture. By establishing ISheEra Technology, he sold a variety of feminine products. From his observation, women normally make a purchase based on their loved ones’ preferences; this shopping behavior, therefore, creating a business opportunity for him. Still, when it comes to digital marketing in a different market, he has a vital point to make – to observe our target audience very closely so that you will know how to upgrade the marketing strategies. Take one of the cosmetic cares for example, while they’re promoting products in Indonesia, they failed to dig into Indonesian girls’ preference, which emphasizes oil-control and it ultimately constitutes a failure. Besides, Antonius also arouse the awareness of the audience – no matter in where we wanna start our own business, we need to be crystal clear about our own strengths as well as resources, looking for a niche which is currently lacking in that market so that we can make a competitive solution that no one has envisioned before.

Last Friday, on May 4th, 2019, G.G.C from Global Brand Management Association (GBMA) has successfully held the 2019 G.G.C. Internship Interview & Career Fair at Cosmos Hotel Taipei. The event has attracted a lot of attention thank the participation of top experts in their industries including Dr. Louis Chen – Chairman of GBMA, legislator Karen Kao, Mrs. Kao – Chairman of MIC, Mr. Leo – CEO of Private Angle Capital and Mr. Chuang – Head of Agricultural Biotechnology from KPMG.

Dr. Chen,Chun-Shan from GBMA launched an inspiring opening speech.

After the warm welcome speech and introduction from Dr. Chen, Mrs. Karen has openly discussed with students about the current government policy and the decreasing demand for Finance-related jobs and provided participants with some advice and preparation for the upcoming, emphasizing on the need of other skills, especially technological ones. Despite the political uncertainties, Mrs. Karen and Dr. Chen still showed positive prospects for young talents in Taiwan.

Mr. Wu,Wun-Fang, one of the STARTBOARD’s investors was sharing his personal experiences on the event.

On the other hand, from the aspect of employers, representatives from KPMG and MIC described that hardworking, languages, attitude, global mind and continuously learning process are keys to success worldwide. However, in case you are ready to build up your own empire, Mr. Leo from Angle capital has a really good instruction for you which are to be the man of integrity and keep moving forward.

Time for STARTBOARD’s sharing!

The event closed after a bustling visit of students to different boots and queuing for submission of Resumes. On top of all, they have had a valuable lesson and share which would become their competitiveness on their future career path.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

It’s our utmost pride to be a part of 2018 Meet Taipei 創新創業嘉年華 – Startup High-5ive, an amazing catalyst for innovative ideas and startups!
During the three-day expo, STARTBOARD not only reunited with our good old friends but we also met up with a number of startup teams specializing in different fields! If you didn’t get the chance to come over and visit our booth, here are some delightful moments!

On top of that, our batch members, innoviz, GoEco and PokaYoke Infotech also demonstrated their attractive solutions during the event! GoEco even won the third place in the pitch contest! Visit our Facebook fanpage for further details!

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