STARTBOARD visited HCMC Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

發佈日期: 19 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: News

STARTBOARD visited HCMC Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
Thank you Economic Secretary and Director General have shared with us a lot of interesting stories.
Also thank you Mr.Nguyễn Tiến Thành, Project Manager of Taiwan Desk Vietnam for helping us arrange the meeting.
STARTBOARD is looking forward to collaborating with more Vietnam entrepreneurs.

The Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei established its presence in Taiwan in 1992 and since then there has been a significant development in Vietnam-Taiwan relations especially in trade, economic, art and cultural and tourism fields. In the area of trade, we have witnessed a substantial growth. Last year, Vietnam-Taiwan trade exceeded US$2.6 billion. There are over 30,000 Taiwanese investors including 900 small and medium enterprises in Vietnam.

An increase of 50 percent in investments from Taiwan was recorded for the period Jan to June this year compared to the same period of last year. Vietnam exports to Taiwan are agricultural and daily commodity products while Taiwan exports to Vietnam are raw materials and machinery . Vietnam offers numerous investment incentives and will continue to be one of Taiwan’s most favorite investment destinations over the years. Vietnam is one of the most attractive places for investors in Asia. Simple processing make it easy for investors to invest.

With a population of 78 million people, an area nine times that of Taiwan, Vietnam offers an abundant labor force and low monthly wages. Vietnamese are hard working people and able to adopt flexibly. Since 1993, Vietnam and Taiwan has signed four agreements namely: protection of Taiwan investors in Vietnam, prevention of double taxation, agricultural and fishing cooperation, research and development, and labor. The two countries have signed an economic accord to further strengthen bilateral trade and economic cooperation.

Taiwanese investors ranked the second biggest investor in Vietnam and include light and medium industry, in manufacturing as well as in the service industry such as hotel, resorts and entertainment field.

STARTBOARD ON TAIWAN NEWS

發佈日期: 17 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: News

Forum for ASEAN-Indian startups held in Taipei

Reference link: http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3162586

Event for promoting ASEAN-Indian Start Ups in Taiwan was held with attendance of some high profile companies last Saturday.

By Juvina Lai,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

2017/05/16 17:37

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — On Saturday, May 13 an event was hosted by the Global Brands Management Association GGC club Taipei in the Cosmos Hotel to promote ASEAN-Indian startups in Taiwan.

The local incubator STARTBOARD was present with its existing batch members, including team Aimazing, Research Stash, Dong You and Think Tank, all ASEAN-Indian start up companies.

The event saw senior executives of some multinational companies such as Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cathay Bank, Esun Bank to name a few in attendance. Senior professors and executives also delivered motivational speeches to the international students present there.

The event boasted startup teams that were based inside and outside of Taiwan looking for support and opportunities in the Taiwan market. The startup teams were each given the chance to introduce their companies and business plans in front of the forum.

The agenda of this event attracted many young international students from ASEAN countries and India. Many were motivated to start their own business plan in Taiwan while some were interested in first getting internships or jobs. The agenda also included time for students to briefly introduce themselves to the companies and exchange business cards and CVs.

The event concluded with an opportunity for the international students to interact with members the startups to learn more about their businesses.

2017 G.G.C. Enterprise Interview

發佈日期: 16 5 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

Last week, on May 13th, STARTBOARD and GGC successfully hosted 2017 G.G.C Enterprise Interview. This event is not only a chance for International Students to listen and learn from the guests’ stories but also a chance to introduce themselves and to drop the CV for job seeking.

In this event, we were so proud of our batch 1 Team Aimazing for their first product demonstration in Taipei, Taiwan. They have showed to all the guests that hard work paid off and nothing could stop us to achieve the dreams.

18403111_331922487226465_656405707898093301_n — STARTBOARD WITH BATCH 1TEAM AIMAZING

18403445_331922693893111_2215267923651704991_n — Team STARTBOARD

Also, during this event, the team has officially presented each member. Our team has a diversity of background and nationalities which strengthen our motto:” Together For Better”. Each member brings to STARTBOARD their own story while they decided to work in STARTBOARD, which we hope can motivate the young to get out of the comfort zone and contribute more to the communities.

18423881_331922493893131_2173448268635549082_n-1 — STARTBOARD with mentors and partners from: Louis Group, KPMG Taiwan, TRONXIN Accelerator, Taiwan Start-Up Hub, Committee of Communications, Industry Development Ministry of Economic Affairs,

Interaction session between guests and students

We would like to send our many thanks to all the professors, CEO, GM and others honor guests for bring to the event their experiences, their observation and advices, also their own inspiring stories. Without you, the event might have not be that successful. We are deeply obliged for all the support.

“Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.”
– Kenny Ausubel

Eugene Chien, Chairman, Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy

Meeting up with Political Deputy Minister,Ministry of Education

發佈日期: 27 4 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

Following up the meetings with different representatives from Taiwan government, last week, on 20th April, STARTBOARD visited Ministry of Education and discussed with the minister about New Southbound Policy and related programs.

Understanding the potential impact of international students toward Taiwan, Ministry of Education is one of the very first firms, which starts running the programs for New Southbound Policy. Minister also shared to us his support for STARTBOARD’s upcoming events as STARTBOARD is the first incubator for ASEAN-INDIA students in Taipei, Taiwan. Despite of many challenges ahead, he believed the team could make some performances contributing to the growth of Taiwan.

” Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart”

STARTBOARD’s Meeting with Commissioner of Department of Economic development, Taipei City Government on 17th April

發佈日期: 25 4 月, 2017 作者: Vivien 阮河薇分類: Events

On 17th April 2017, STARTBOARD had an oppotunity meet up with Dr. Lin Chung- Chieh, Commissioner of Department of Economic Development.

The department of Economic Development is known as being in charge of Taipei city start-up financial source. It’s an honor for STARTBOARD team to have a chance presenting the idea of supporting ASEAN- INDIA talents in Taiwan. Dr. Lin has discussed with the team about potential influence of ASEAN talents to Taiwan’s development and in the way around. He also showed his support to STARTBOARD and strongly believed that “together we can do better”.

” Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost”

STARTBOARD visited One-Forty

發佈日期: 14 4 月, 2017 作者: CharlotteW 分類: News

One-Forty is well known in Taiwan for their contribution to the ASEAN migrant’s community. On 12th April, STARTBOARD team has a chance to meet Kevin Chen 陳凱翔, the co-founder of One-Forty. To contribute to the conversation regarding the inspiration and experience in working with ASEAN community, we were honored to join in the exhibition named “ 600,000 Journeys:六十萬個旅程;六十萬個故事” in Huashan Creative Park.

We are impressed by the stories from Indonesian migrants in Taiwan, aside from the display of work describing the daily life, the custom of Indonesian. More specially, it’s touching seeing the wall of notes showing the thankfulness for migrant contribution and the understanding of their difficulties.
It strengthens STARTBOARD team’s belief and passion that together, we can create more values for the society.