Mar 25, 2019Startup Funding and Grants in Hong KongGo to the original post at jeffreybroer.com for the most updated overview. Doing a startup isn’t easy, so some support along the way might be helpful, especially in Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong has one of the cheapest Big Mac‘s US$ 2.99, …Hong Kong5 min readHong Kong5 min read
Aug 7, 2017Traction isn’t everythingIt’s summer 2012, hot and humid as always in Hong Kong. I am running the UX-Web Design Studio I set up over a year ago, and things are doing ok-ish. We have enough work, not a cash cow, but we share a nice office and work on projects we like…Startup8 min readStartup8 min read
Apr 18, 2017“Great! We need a chatbot!”It’s the whole “we need an app” all over again. Product managers and executives are tumbling to get budget for a chatbot development project. However, let's take the lessons we’ve learned from the app rush. The app stores are filled with apps with weak use cases, unsupported iOS and Android…Chatbots4 min readChatbots4 min read
Dec 13, 2016Uber support, please use (some) AI sentiment analyticsI like useing ride calling apps, I truly do, it saves me money.Uber5 min readUber5 min read
Dec 8, 2016How to validate your business ideaIdeas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters. — Casey Neistat A way to validate 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…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Nov 11, 2016Investing in early stage startupsUber, WeLabs, 8 Securities, Tesla, Angry Birds, etc, imagine you were an early stage angel investor in one (or more) of them. Granted, they weren’t overnight successes of course, most of those companies are 4+ years old now, but you could have made a huge difference for them with only…Venture Capital5 min readVenture Capital5 min read
Apr 25, 2016WeChat as a mobile phone?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 a mobile phone. Calling WeChat a mere chat app is a severe understatement. WeChat (微信, “WeiXin” in Chinese), created by Tencent, China’s…Wechat3 min readWechat3 min read
Feb 9, 2016Um Peru De Peru Do PeruLast year mike pesca started using Um Peru De Peru Do Peru on The Gist, his Slate podcast. So what does it mean and where did it come from? I tweeted about it back then and got some questions about the origin. The total assembly of the sentence took…Podcast2 min readPodcast2 min read
Feb 3, 2016Facebook SPAM in Hong KongHong Kong Facebook groups are being flooded by local SPAM. Managing a group on Facebook comes sometimes with challenges, those challenges became bigger over the last 3 weeks. …Hong Kong3 min readHong Kong3 min read
Nov 26, 2015Fintech, the polarizing industry for Hong KongHong 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? This is the 3rd in a series of blog posts about startups in Hong Kong. (other 2: Hardware and Logistics). In…Startup8 min readStartup8 min read
