Startup Island TAIWAN Podcast

Technology, as we all know, moves at a rapid pace. With the advance of science and technology, only the companies that embrace the tools and solutions to get ahead are more likely to survive. It gave the opportunity for Fash Chang to initiate his entrepreneurship with Gosky. Helping businesses to grow loyalty and drive revenue by connecting marketing, sales, and CRM from the first social interaction to lifetime purchases. As an AI-powered data analytics communication tool for businesses, Gosky AI was part of the first batch of 500 Global Accelerator Taiwan with TTA. During the program, it became the project that investors are most interested in. ‘’After the program our investment team realised that Gosky has much bigger potential compared to the statute they were at the time" said Shawn Chu, Principal at 500 Global.    In this episode of Startup Island Taiwan Podcast, you will find out: ☛ The problem GoSky is trying to solve ☛ Early CRM experience with noodle stand inspired the founding of Gosky ☛ Examples of how GoSky helps their clients to grow business in Taiwan ☛ 3 differences between Asia and US for Martech company Host: Uly Su, Entrepreneur In Residence @Business Next Media Corp. Guest: Fash Chang, CEO of Gosky AI & Shawn Chu, Principal of 500 Global Powered by Startup Island TAIWAN Directed by National Development Council   👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Guest William Hsu, VC and co-founder of Mucker Capital, discusses the potential of Taiwan's startup scene, the importance of storytelling in startup pitches, and the need for Taiwanese entrepreneurs to think globally. They also explore the 'blue-collar VC' concept and share insights from Thomas Edison's muckers.

Will you use navigation when you are driving? Although we use navigation, we still get lost occasionally, since the map and the actual road conditions differ. This is also the opportunity for Cheng Ping Yu, the founder of AR navigation startup Phiar, to initiate his entrepreneurship. By combining deep learning with AI and AR technology, AR navigation provides the actual road conditions for drivers and guides the direction at the same time. Phiar was selected as YC's 2018 Summer Batch (YC S18), and has also received major venture capital’s investment in the following years. Google even announced the acquisition of Phiar in September 2022, hoping to create a new generation of navigation systems through computer vision, AI and AR. Highlights: Augmented reality for navigation The inspiration of Phiar’s product came from Yu’s own experience Transformation from academia to business Key point that makes technology business applicable Yu’s experience in YC Big trends for self-driving, automotive and AR Incredible innovation speed for AI and AR In terms of making AI accessible to everyone, edge processing is very important AR glass will become the next smartphone Host: Asianometry, Deep tech channel with 350k followers, still growing Guest: Chen-Ping Yu, founder of Phiar 👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Pinkoi aims to create an Asian designer ecosystem. By promoting Asian design brands to the international market, Pinkoi connects and empowers both brands and consumers, creating a high-quality design ecosystem. Acquiring Japanese company iichi in 2015, Pinkoi became a well-known role model of cross-border acquisition in Taiwan. Despite the influence of the epidemic, Pinkoi's cross-border orders have doubled, and their products have been sold to 93 countries around the world, becoming one of the leading e-commerce companies in Asia.    If you want to know more about: - Pinkoi's business secrets during the pandemic - Experience in acquiring Japanese company - Challenges brought about by different company culture  - Resource integration after acquisition Join us to get more information ! Host: Uly Su, Entrepreneur In Residence @Business Next Media Corp. Guest: Peter Yen, Co-Founder and CEO of Pinkoi   👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Under the impact of COVID-19, remote work has become an irreversible trend. International talent acquisition and management has become an emerging tide. What kind of role does Taiwan play in this new trend?  The competence of Taiwanese top talents is undoubted and recognized around the world. However, the domestic job market lacks suitable opportunities which meet their expectations. Good news is : Silicon Valley startups have begun to seek talents abroad actively since August, 2021. Moreover, they offer generous treatment to international top talents. So, how to successfully connect Taiwanese top talents with Silicon Valley? We invited two veterans in talent acquisition: Gene Chuang, mentor at Mucker Capital and also the founder of CTO slackers who has experience in management of the U.S. CTO network and Tiwen Lin, the founder of Silicon Valley talent acquisition startup Worca, to share their experience about international talent acquisition and the prospect and development of these talents in the U.S. Highlight: 🧑‍🤝‍🧑How Gene comes to his position now? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑What is CTO “slacker”? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑What kind of contribution that CTO slackers makes for talent acquisition? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑What are the advantages and challenges for hiring remote teams? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑What do they do to facilitate the recruit process?  🧑‍🤝‍🧑Advice for startups who want to minimize challenges? Host: Jeremy Olivier, senior editor of AmCham Taiwan Guest: Gene Chuang, founder of CTO slackers and mentor @Mucker Capital Tiwen Lin, founder of Worca   👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Warren Buffett announced last week that he bought TSMC Stock - American Depositary Receipts (ADR), which is worth more than 4.1 billion dollars. This is a rare major investment in the technology sector by Buffett's conglomerate. How is TSMC favored by international investors? Be Everyone's Foundry, that is the main strategy of TSMC. In the 1980s, Taiwanese government planned to cultivate the semiconductor industry for Taiwan's economic development. Then, TSMC was founded. TSMC's achievement lies in changing the global semiconductor division of labor. Before Morris Chang, wafer foundry was considered an impossible task since customers were afraid of leaking or plagiarizing chip designs, so they were reluctant to hand over chips to foundries for manufacturing. However, TSMC has persuaded a huge number of companies with its high-standard integrity management. TSMC has now become the largest semiconductor fabrication plant in the world. Outline : 📀 Beginning: reasons behind TSMC’s foundation 📀 Development: significant players in TSMC’s history 📀 Competition: ITRI, UMC and TSMC 📀 Summit: No.1 semiconductor manufacturer in the world 📀 Reflection: the inspiration of TSMC’s huge success Host:Asianometry, Deep tech channel with 350k followers, still growing Guest: Tim Koay, Historian on Taiwan Early Stage Semiconductor Initiative 👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

With the advent of the global space age, countries are competing with each other for a foothold in outer space. What role does Taiwan play in this space competition? Among the 105 low earth orbit satellites launched by Space X in January 2022, one of them is a " spherical-motor-based " microsatellite developed by Taiwanese space startup Tensor Technology. The 22-year-old founder of Tensor Technology, Thomas Yen and his entrepreneurial partners have built the world's one and only spherical motor for commercial use. Through their satellite attitude control system, it saves 2/3 of the space and volume of the satellite, and nearly save one hundred thousand dollars cost in one launch. Yen also mentions that the advantages of developing the space industry in Taiwan are that the electronics industry is well-founded, the OEM supply chain is complete and intensive, and components can be produced quickly. For example, after a product is designed in Taipei, it can be produced in the Hsinchu Science Industrial Park. The two places are close to each other so that they can often communicate and coordinate with manufacturers in person to ensure the quality of product. Outline : 🚀What is Tensor’s main mission and idea? 🚀What kind of product does Tensor provide? 🚀Why satellite minimization matters? 🚀What are the advantages of Taiwan’s supply chain? 🚀The future of space industry Host: Uly Su, Entrepreneur In Residence @Business Next Media Corp. Guest: Thomas Yen, Founder of Tensor Tech   👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comment Powered by Firstory Hosting

What makes foreigners want to settle or even naturalise in Taiwan? What’s more, they make a gigantic contribution to Taiwanese cryptocurrency ecosystem.  “I’m convinced that the future of finance is cryptocurrency, in one form or another, and you can see that it has already become a reality,” says Leo Seewald, the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (AmCham Taiwan) and the former country head of BlackRock in Taiwan. Naturalized in Taiwan in 2020, Seewald is the director of MaiCoin, Taiwan’s largest legal digital asset trading platform. Maicoin is expected to launch a new stablecoin,Taiwan Dollar Coin (TWDC), later on this year. TWDC is a stablecoin with a 1:1 exchange rate with New Taiwan dollar, with the equivalent amount of Taiwan dollar reserved, which can be exchanged by users at any time, in order to eliminate the concerns of the Financial Supervisory Commission. The exchanged TWD is like the banknotes or coins we use every day, which are guaranteed by the central bank and will not affect the currency issuance in the real world.     Meanwhile, we invited Akio Tanaka, co-founder and partner at Headline Asia and currently settled in Taiwan. Tanaka has experiences in Japanese stablecoin JPYC and he shares the process during the development of JPYC. So, what are the lessons that TWDC might learn from JPYC? What is the prospect of cryptocurrency in Taiwan or even in Asia in the next decade? Join us to find out!  Outline : 🔗Why does cryptocurrency have yet to gain much of a foothold in Taiwan? 🔗A message for those who hesitate and suspect to invest in cryptocurrency due to Terra’s Luna stablecoin case. 🔗What are the connections between stablecoin, cryptocurrency and e-payment platforms? 🔗How can TWDC encourage saving and investing habits among young Taiwanese? 🔗The prospects of cryptocurrency in Taiwan and in Asia. Host: Jeremy Olivier, senior editor of AmCham Taiwan Guest: Leo Seewald, director of MaiCoin Akio Tanaka, co-founder and partner at Headline Asia   👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

As the popularity of cryptocurrencies has increased, many companies have begun to invest in virtual currency. However, this new technology has also created new problems, that is, how to manage the "private key", which symbolizes the control of funds since once the private key is stolen or lost, the digital assets in your account will never be recoverable or cashed. Taiwanese startup Cybavo stands out in this battle of information security. Its products build a powerful digital asset management system to protect digital assets, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance operational efficiency. The products of Cybavo are favored by the U.S. fintech unicorn Circle, which acquired Cybavo in June this year. The partnership between CYBAVO and Circle will achieve the vision of bringing blockchain infrastructure, digital assets and digital currencies to the masses and mainstreaming Web 3. We invited COO of Cybavo, Jordan Forssman, as our guest today to introduce Cybavo, to share their contribution in cryptocurrency security and his thoughts about the role that Taiwan plays in Web 3 ecosystem. Outline : ✅Introduction: the CYBAVO company ✅New concept: something new that comes out of Web3 ✅Web 3 security: private key, digital asset protection and risk control ✅Prospect: next step for crypto security ✅Web 3 & Taiwan: the role of Taiwan in Web 3 ecosystem Host & Guest: Jon <> Jordan    👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

The emergence of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin has influenced intensively the global financial situation. The extension of the blockchain, Web3, builds the foundation for the financial provision of the next generation, which is impossible to achieve with Web 1 and Web 2. Taiwan's neo fintech Web3 startup XREX builds a bridge between cross-border, virtual and reality financial world with its blockchain technology. They successfully obtained a Money Services Business (MSB) license from the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) this year, laying a foundation in the global financial market. XREX has obtained 8 international licenses and registrations, including: United States, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia and Taiwan. They’re currently in the process of applying for licenses in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to international licenses and registrations, XREX also obtained ISO/IEC 27001 information security certification in August this year, which is a set of international standards jointly issued by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in order to verify whether the organization's information security management system (ISMS) has a complete risk assessment and management plan. XREX passed all 114 application standards without any error and spent less time than others to obtain this certification. In this episode, we invited the Co-founder & CEO to XREX, Wayne Huang, to talk about blockchain, Web3 and his prospect toward neo fintech. Outline : ✅What is Web 3 ? What is the relation between Web 2 and Web 3 ? ✅Does Web 3 have a certain field to develop in the near future ? ✅Any suggestions for young engineers and entrepreneur ? ✅What are the differences between working in the Bay Area and in Taiwan ? ✅In what way Taiwan can attract the oversea people to start a business here ? Host & Guest: Uly <> Wayne   👉More news of Taiwan startups: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4jhd5u 👉Follow us on LinkedIn: https://meetstartup.pse.is/4hhbhg 📪 Email us: global@bnext.com.tw   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cl8jubp5t01v601sl4vys57dj/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting