When given options, use them
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters. – Casey Neistat
Everyone can validate an idea on the viability of it before writing a single line of code, or even before the question: “how do we find a CTO”. It’s pretty easy to draft up a Value Proposition to validate. There are multiple ways to validate, but one is using landing pages Read more…
To, finally, put pen to paper – having talked about this in a number of meetings, the time has finally come to “paper”; the WeChat app as mobile OS.
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Hong Kong, the ultimate fintech place, or not?
Hong Kong has his share of financial institutes, but is Hong Kong also a good place to have a fintech startup? Read more…
This is the second post, from a trio of posts, I’ve written about Hong Kong as a startup hub with a Dutch angle. This post will highlight the logistics part of Hong Kong. One about hardware and one is going to be about FinTech.
The similarities between The Netherlands and Hong Kong pre-date startups. Hong Kong is a strong logistical center, it operates a big container port (4th globally), in addition to being driving distance of the port of Guangzhou (8th globally), and Shenzhen (3rd globally). These 3 ports are situated in the Pearl River Delta. The 3 combined handled in 2013 Read more…
What can Hong Kong mean for (Dutch) hardware startups?
Hong Kong startups has many similarities with startups The Netherlands in the way of challenges and knowledge. This is the first in a series of blog posts and in this post I will highlight the Hardware part of Hong Kong, other posts will be about startups in: Logistic, Finance and Garments.
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Running out of money isn’t a valid failure reason.
While making the preparations for the next version of the Postmortem Conference about Startup Lessons Learned, I sometimes see founders writing: we failed because we ran out of money. Now those founders should get causation and correlation right. Read more…
“Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem, is there really something missing?”
After the launch of the Visa scheme for Startups reactions were mostly positive, but sparked also the discussion what else is needed in Hong Kong Read more…
A lot is written about Hong Kong as a startup ecosystem, but one thing is for sure: a working visa isn’t a breakpoint anymore!
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Good illustration explaining Minimum Viable Product: Build a slice across, not layer by layer #UX #MVP
HT @scott_kerr pic.twitter.com/yf9V4x4s0g
— Jeffrey Broer (@jebbery) March 13, 2015