Jonbuford

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by Jonbuford 15y ago
We have a few cowork options, and expect some more spaces to open within the next 6 months. BootHK ( http://boot.hk ) is my space I opened and is mostly hotdesk space for early startups. HK Commons is a little more for established companie
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
I only know marketing agencies there, but haven't run into any groups of either hardware or software hackers. Would be interested to find out what is there as well.
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
Funding with experienced investors is not as common. We are seeing a big jump in investments over the last 6 months from investors that have started coming in and are really able to take their pick of deals. I think we will see more of this
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
If you are doing business in China, then Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen would be your best options. You really can't do a business for China from HK effectively, unless part of the business is connecting with the rest of the world in some w
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
Also we have a hackerspace: http:www.dimsumlabs.com I'm one of the founders for all of the above, in one role or another.
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
I'm one of the founders. For the FB group we try to keep it the immediate community active members. Send me a message on FB and let me know who you are. One other problem we run into on FB is that people use random photos and user names so
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
Agree, hiring developers is going to currently be difficult, but I expect that this will steadily improve as demand grows. Coming here tends to be trivially easy, and there are a lot of things that being in either SF or NY would give a US f
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by Jonbuford 15y ago
Hong Kong is pretty much the same in those aspects, but larger population and more mountains. The government money for startups in Singapore has created an environment that is not entirely healthy or desirable in that there is little incent