The turnout for the Startup Hong Kong event went really well. I saw a lot of old and new faces and met a few of my readers and those who I’ve connected online before. This is assurance that the startup community is growing. I didn’t have the opportunity to meet with everyone, so for those, [...]

UPDATE: Venue: Stepcase Office Addy: 479 Castle Peak Rd – Chau Tau, near Lai Chi Kok MTR More info: http://www.stepcase.com/contact/ Time: 19:00 – 22:00 or later UPDATE: Harbork and Zendesk are sponsoring the food/drinks. There will be a short demo by Harbork service. There will be a social event for the startups this coming Thursday, [...]

Update: Sign up by using the wiki! Here is some good news for the startups here. Jeremiah Owyang from PodTech in Silicon Valley will be in town the week of Sept 16-21, 2007. For anyone who is unfamiliar with Jeremiah, he is a web strategist and a social media guru and is well known in [...]

Just a couple months after the last gathering, we’ve again brought Hong Kong’s web 2.0 entrepreneurs away from their makeshift offices/bedrooms/cubby holes to EditGrid’s luxurious office space. Along with the previous startups, I brought in some of the recently discovered/profiled startups into the mix. It was very satisfying to see the number of startups discovered [...]

Since my start in covering Web 2.0 in Hong Kong back in June 2006, I’ve seen the number of web startups shoot up in a year’s time. I started with meeting two startups, then three, then organizing meetups for five startups and now, eleven and counting. The numbers are minute compared to those in China [...]