VENTURE CAPITAL

11 December 2018

Technological innovation comes in many flavours and requires a wide variety of talents, delegates at the 19th Hong Kong Forum in early December learnt. More

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China Chases America’s VC Crown

31 October 2018

The United States has always been the home of venture capital (VC), which appeared in its modern form in Boston in the 1940s and soon moved its focus to Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area. More

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Guangdong Sets Out Bay Area Innovation Development Strategy

24 September 2018

New measures, intended to optimise the local entrepreneurship and innovation environment, have been introduced by the Guangdong Provincial Government. More

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Hunt for Alpha goes High-tech

11 September 2018

Stratospheric valuations and thin yields have left investors scrambling for high-alpha assets that will bring rich returns, but the hunt is harder every year, and the quarry more elusive. More

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Expat Duo Take Start-up Plunge with Trip Guru

08 August 2018

Having moved from Argentina to Hong Kong for work, logistics specialist Sebastian Renzacci enjoyed the privileged lifestyle an executive expat package brings. More

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Delivering the Goods of the Future

15 June 2018

Online shopping makes life easier in terms of time savings, but the convenience may stop at the delivery. More

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Writing the Next Chapter

03 April 2018

“Everyone says it’s easy to start a business in Hong Kong, but more importantly, how do you get it off the ground?” asks Nicole Denholder. More

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Breathe Easy

11 January 2018

Clean air is among the biggest global health challenges, but air pollution not only exists outdoors – indoor air tainted by dust and toxic household substances can be just as hazardous to health. More

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The Challenges Facing Hong Kong Start-ups: Access to Funding

31 July 2017

Lack of funding is a major constraint limiting the pool of potential entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. Start-ups find it hard to gain access to early stage capital as conventional venture capital firms and banks consider start-ups to be high-risk investment due to the lack of track records. However, there are several other avenues to consider, such as crowd-funding and microfinance. More

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China Announces Nine Measures to Promote Venture Capital

28 September 2016

In order to push forward the innovation-driven development strategy of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation”, promote the commerialisation of innovation and scientific research findings and foster new economic drivers for industrial transformation and upgrading and for employment growth, the Chinese government recently announced nine measures on venture capital to address the problems of shortcoming or shortfall in policy environment More

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