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STARTBOARD IS given Cultivation Contribution Award by Taipei City Government

發佈日期: 作者: cesarhsu 分類: News

In 2021, we were honored to be invited to the 5th Taipei Prominent Enterprise competition and won the “Cultivation Contribution Award” among hundreds of enterprises !

The Taipei City Government is committed to building innovative start-up environments for a long time, and Taipei City is currently the Taiwan’s largest accelerator with startups.

Taipei Mayor Ko and Uniform Lin

We, STARTBOARD, have been supporting all foreign talents who plan to start a business in Taipei at first. Until now, we have accelerated more than 40 enterprises from zero to one, including a wide range of industries such as Sportstech, Edutech, influencer marketing, ecommerce, blockchain, and so on. Furthermore, nowadays, we initialized NETA programme to assist Taiwanese enterprises to expand their business into the Southeast Asian market.

Note: NETA is the abbreviation of New southbound Entrepreneur Training Alliance and also the meaning of  master or leader(नेता) in Hindi.

You never know which decision you made is correct or not. However, we feel blessed to go with our colleagues from Day 1 until today with our initial mission. We believe that our core value is beneficial to society and the whole startup ecosystem. It is unavoidable to be confronted with ups and downs in the process, but these difficulties indeed form our enterprise, STARTBOARD. said Uniform Lin, CEO of STARTBOARD.

STARTBOARD teammates

In 2021, a total of 16 companies were given awards by the Taipei City Government. We, STARTBOARD, are also honored to be given the Cultivation Contribution Award.

We will continue to support every talent who wants to start their business in Taipei and other cities of Taiwan. Thank you all, we’ll keep dedicating ourselves to the right thing.

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Group photo of 16 companies in Taipei Prominent Enterprise competition

THINKTANK @ Computex | THINKTANK pushed themselves HIGHER in Computex, the biggest tech expo in Asia

發佈日期: 作者: alicesyu 分類: Events

Wait, what is Computex?

Due to Taiwan’s complete supply chain of the ITC industry, Computex Taipei, the biggest tech exhibition in Asia, has established its tradition ever since its debut.With ITC developing a solid foundation, topics related to such cutting-edge technology as blockchain, 5G, IoT, startups as well as gaming and VR all went viral this year.

Aside from impressive main topics, InnoVEX, one of Computex’s featured exhibits highlights dynamic arena of sorts, offering the demo, pitch, workshop, forum, and startup tour, therefore drawing 388 innovative teams’ attention from around the globe!

If you are captivated by state-of-the-art technology, startup things, or deeply interested in knowing global startup ecosystem, Computex is absolutely a great fit for you. If unfortunately you already lost the chance this time, make sure to show up at the grand expo next year in our splendid spring and take your own pace to walk through distinguished conferences and forums. A broad spectrum of blue ocean opportunities will be here for you to uncover!

Here’s our batch member, THINKTANK!

STARTBOARD is honored to have some outstanding batch members participating in Computex. Among them, THINKTANK is a team that fully displays its diversity.With members coming from both sides of Atlantic and Pacific countries, (the States, the UK, Japan, India, Taiwan, and Japan are included) innovation is bound to have more possibilities in THINKTANK.

THINKTANK has devoted efforts 24/7 to developing “AI ecosystem for smart cities.” Currently, through two of their major products – CLAPPIO and EXIT, THINKTANK provides AI services with the good use of Internet of People (IoP) as a reasonable-priced replacement for Internet of Things.

In Computex 2018, THINKTANK not only got the ticket to “speed dating” with news media worldwide but separated themselves from the crowd by successfully pitching their products as well as services.

For the former, InnoVEX was holding the startup “speed dating,” which allowed startup teams of all kinds to give their marketing blitz a full play. In THINKTANK’s opinion, this setup enables new teams to elevate media exposure, which is both fun and purposeful.

For the latter, the chance to pitch their products at InnoVEX stand is fully utilized by THINKTANK. Several business minds were lucky enough to see how this team precisely locates consumer pain points and “uses IoP efficiently” to improve quality of life.

◆Can’t wait for another Computex? Click here to see features for the next year: https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en_US/show/info.html?id=F1970639CF716213D0636733C6861689&sFuncID=F1970639CF716213D0636733C6861689

◆Feel excited about delving into THINKTANK’s services? Click here for further information: https://www.thinktank.com.tw/home/

 

References:

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▲Computex

▲THINKTANK- AI ECOSYSTEM FOR SMART CITIES

▲OUR TEAM | RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

 

 

Recent events of STARTBOARD

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: Events、News

Recently, STARTBOARD attended different events and meetings with Government representatives, also Taiwanese start ups. Here is some of the photos summarizing our last week.

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Meeting with Taiwanese start up Follia

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Meeting with Taiwanese start up Follia

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Attending with Aimazing on Microsoft BizSpark Event

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visit to Department of Industrial Development, National Development Council.

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

STARTBOARD In NTU Garage Annual Meeting

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: Events、News

On 7th June, STARTBOARD attended NTU Garage Annual Meeting.

NTU Garage, which has been started in 2013,  is a accelator program to nurture young entrepreneurs with hope of providing students and faculty with a friendly space to realize their innovative ideas. Start-ups that qualify for programs at the garage would enjoy various kinds of training and assistance for six months, with the overlapping period between applications and the program’s course designed to promote exchanges between the last group of participants and newcomers.

Participants receive legal and accounting consulting about setting up firms, as well as learn from experienced instructors. Participants also receive opportunities to demonstrate their products. As the young entrepreneurs might not have the money to set up an office, they can go to the NTU Garage to work .

STARTBOARD felt very honor to meet up with Minister Liang-Gee Chen, Ministry of technology and George Huang, Chairman of Acer.

We are looking forward to having more support and chances in the future, in order to provide our ASEAN-INDIA the best sources nurturing their innovative ideas.

Research Stash applying for TiTAN Soft-landing Program in Taiwan

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: News

Research Stash went to TXA accelarator today June 2nd for the interview of Taiwan Innovation and Technology Arena’s Soft Landing project. The winner can have 1 month of support high-potential technology startups and emerging companies to successfully enter the Asia market and scale their business globally and access to outstanding mentors, free office, valuable connections and the knowledge and expertise required to scale quickly.

Congrats Research Stash and finger crossed for another victory to Mahantesh.

A Day in COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2017

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: Events、News

Started from 1981, COMPUTEX TAIPEI has been the world’s leading B2B ICT/IoT (Internet of Things) trade show and developing into a global startup platform. COMPUTEX 2017 positions itself as Building Global Technology Ecosystems, focusing on 5 main themes: AI & Robotics, IoT Applications, Innovations & Startups, Business Solutions, and Gaming & VR, with 4 featured exhibiting areas: SmarTEX, InnoVEX, and iStyle, and gaming & VR.

STARTBOARD visited COMPUTEX and had some discussions with the exhibitors from different fields in order to learn more about the demanding and to broaden our horizons about the future trend in IT, especially in Taiwan. Trying newest technology and equipments, discussing with the top experienced managers in field is the gift we got from COMPUTEX. Also this time, we had a conversation with Taiwan Association for Virtual and Augmented Reality (TAVAR), and their Secretary General, Cori Shieh had introduced to us the latest trend in VR industry, such a lovely experience.

WISTRON ITS IS STARTBOARD’S FUTURE GOAL

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: Events

Starting a productive week after the Dragon Boat Festival, STARTBOARD visited WISTRON ITS Taiwan.

The meeting was approximately 3 hours which contains the presentations sections and Q&A part.

We were so proud of Research Stash, H2U, Think Tank, Dong Yo, and Aimazing for such a great performance. Little by little, they noted all the advices from the mentors and improved the business plans. Although, there were still a lot of things need to be done, we believe hard work paid off.

Wistron Information Technology & Services (Wistron ITS), ranked as one of the largest language services providers (LSPs) in the translation and interpreting industry. Wistron ITS was named as the 26th largest globalization vendor in all of Asia.

“Being ranked as one of the leading brands in language services is a recognition to Wistron ITS globalization team.” said Wistron ITS CEO, Dr. Ching Hsiao. “We have achieved a distinguished performance and success with some of the most reputable companies globally in the IT industry.” he further added, “Asia has a promising globalization service market. Customers seeking globalization and localization services can count on our comprehensive staged services – from software design, development and translation, to post-production activities such as testing and desktop publishing.”

YUNUS CENTRE AND STARTBOARD

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: Events

Before the Dragon Festival, STARTBOARD had a chance to meet up Professor Shen from National Central University. He’s also the Director of YUNUS Centre in Taiwan.

The Yunus Centre, is a think tank for issues related to social business, working in the field of poverty alleviation and sustainability. It is ‘aimed primarily at promoting and disseminating Professor Yunus’ philosophy, with a special focus on social business and currently chaired by Prof. Muhammad Yunus. Its Executive Director is Ms. Lamiya Morshed.

After Prof. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2006, a personal office for Prof. Yunus under the name of ‘Yunus Secretariat’ was formed. From the very beginning on, the Yunus Secretariat was mainly aiming at promoting Prof. Yunus’ philosophy of social business and served as a one-stop resource centre for anyone interested in social business.
In July 2008, it was renamed the Yunus Centre and continues to develop new social businesses, provide technical help to social business start-ups and liaise with anybody interested in the topic. They also publish a quarterly newsletter on new developments in the field of social business.

We started sharing the ideas of STARTBOARD with Professor and introduced to him our Batch 1 project’s Research Stash. Not only coming with a lot of questions for the team, Professor was also very passionate in giving us advices and comments to improve our ongoing progress.

We discussed more about the Southbound Policy and its potential for both Taiwan and other parties and extended to the challenges that we all have to deal with now about the talents, the funds and etc.

Gladly, STARTBOARD has Professor. Shen and YUNUS Taiwan’s support for further programs. We are looking forward to collaborating with Yunus soon.

Meet STARTBOARD’s Inspirer

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: News

Today STARTBOARD would like to make a post on our blog for Professor. Louis Chen (陳春山), our beloved teacher and one of the biggest supporters for the team.

First time meeting with Professor, people are tend to be impressed by how humble and friendly he is. With smiles, Professor creates a cozy environment and he always knows how to lead the conversation.

Professor Louis Chen graduated his LL.M. in School of Law of University of Washington, USA and LL.D. in Faculty of Law of University of Ottawa, Canada.

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With the interdisciplinary expertise background and enthusiasm to the young, Dr. Chen served as various roles in private, governmental and public sectors such as the Chairman of Public Television Service Foundation; the Chairman of Chinese Television System Corp.; the Professor in Faculty of Law, National Taipei University and the visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley (Institute of East Asian Studies) & National University of Singapore (Faculty of Law).

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Not just that, He was the Commissioner of Broadcasting Affairs Commission, Government Information Office; the Commissioner of Financial Reforms Commission, Executive Yuan; the Director of Securities & Futures Investors Protection Center; Taipei and Commissioner, Legal Affairs Commission, Taipei City Government and Partner, Chen & Associates Law Firm and the Associate, Baker & McKenzie. He was the Consultant for Central Depository Insurance Company as well.

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Currently, Dr. Chen serves as the professor of Institute of IP, National Taipei University of Technology and the Professor in Faculty of Law of National Taipei University. He also serves as the Vice Chairman in Corporate Governance Association, the Chairman of the Association of Developing Corporate Organization and of course,

With the major concern in brand and leadership developments for enterprises and NGOs’ management systems, Professor Louis Chen is still working on different projects for international students. His huge support for STARTBOARD is a great example.

Mahantesh Biradar

STARTBOARD’s member on Taiwan News

發佈日期: 作者: Vivien 阮河薇 分類: News

Reference link: http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3169673

Indian student starts company while pursuing PhD in Taiwan

An Indian graduate PhD candidate’s journey to founding a startup in Taiwan

By Juvina Lai,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2017/05/22 16:29

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Mahantesh Biradar, an Indian PhD candidate in Biomedical Science at National Yang Ming University and Academia Sinica, has founded a start up that will help his fellow international students find out about the latest research in Taiwan.

Biradar, 28, who was born in Vijayapura City in the Indian state of Karnataka, is currently researching the genomics of cardiovascular disease at Yang Ming University.

Before starting his PhD research, he worked as a teacher in an engineering college in India. After completing his bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Siddaganga Institute of Technology he went on to pursue his Master’s in Molecular Medicine from Amrita University where he studied the genetics of Indian Lung Cancer patients.

“During this time, I got more interested in translational medicine and I wanted to pursue my PhD research in subjects related to Molecular Medicine.” said Mahantesh.

“When I was looking for a PhD positions in Translational Medicine, I came across the International PhD program in Biomedical Science at National Yang Ming University Taiwan. I applied for the same and got accepted into the PhD program focusing on biomedical Science.” Mahantesh said.

“During my research for a PhD program in Taiwan, I realized that there is no dedicated platform for Science and Technology research which is carried out in various universities in Taiwan. This makes it difficult for students from another country to look for the right option for them. As international students cannot read Chinese, it makes it all the more difficult. That is when the idea of Research Stash came to my mind.”

“Research Stash is basically a collection of various resources which are useful for STEM researchers and also the latest research news from Taiwan. According to a research report from the Ministry of Education there were at least 110,000 overseas students in Taiwan and this number will rise up to 150,000 by the end of 2021. Therefore I feel Research Stash is definitely a necessity for these overseas students as well as for Taiwanese students.”

“At the moment, we are working to aggregate the latest research happening across various universities in Taiwan and we are promoting it globally through the Research Stash website and also through community building. We are also recruiting students/writers from various universities in Taiwan who would like to represent Research Stash on their campus. In the coming years we are planning to have feedback from various experts and target audience to further add various value added features on Research Stash.” concluded Mahantesh.