Analyse Asia #150: Brinc & Shenzhen Hardware Ecosystem with Bay McLaughlin
How to navigate the Shenzhen Hardware Ecosystem from Hong Kong
Episode Synopsis: Bay McLaughlin joined us in a conversation to discuss Brinc, the hardware accelerator in Hong Kong he co-founded that leverages on the Shenzhen ecosystem. He shared how Brinc selects founding teams and helps hardware startups to scale, and their latest drone accelerator program. Last but not least, he shared his perspectives on the Shenzhen hardware manufacturing ecosystem and the challenge of intellectual property loss for hardware founders outside China.
Here are the three interesting points which we discussed during this episode:
- Bay discussed his origins from Silicon Valley and how he has decided to move to Asia and started Brinc to focus on hardware startups.
- We discussed the best practices for hardware startup founders from all over the world to navigate Shenzhen hardware ecosystem.
- Bay also advised on how founders should look at intellectual property loss against Chinese clones and focused on hardware and software integration as a competitive advantage.
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