Relocate to the Silicon Valley and on-the-move tech hubs in other countries to grow business, the chief operating officer of a major American tech media firm is telling Taiwanese startup founders.

Ned Desmond, chief operating officer of TechCrunch, offered that advice at a Business Next’s Meet event last month at Business Next's headquarters in Taipei. Taiwan Startup Stadium, Asia America Multi-Technology Association and Oath Taiwan co-organized the event.

大環境對創業越來越不友善了嗎？從 TSS 台灣新創競技場的表現看來並非如此。今天 TSS 仿照美國大學迎新活動舉辦了「TaiwanRocks Homecoming」活動，其新創會員計畫主要協助有意進軍國際市場的科技新創團隊，其會員數據調查至今進行到第二年，同時該會員計畫從創立到現在約兩年。

就讓我們來看看 TSS 在 2017 的豐碩成果吧。

TSS was set up by the government in 2015 after hearing feedback from the startup community that more support and resources were needed to help Taiwan startups to globalize. Since then, TSS has been active in the community and playing an important role in the startup ecosystem there. The initiative was commended by the American Chamber of Commerce in its 2017 Taiwan Whitepaper for its efforts to “plug Taiwan into the world startup ecosystem”.

多年來，台灣與香港已經建立了穩健的貿易關係。透過香港貿易發展局（香港貿發局）每年舉辦超過 30 個國際展會，匯聚港台兩地的買家及供應商，推動雙邊貿易發展。其中，在 10 月 13~16 日同期舉行的香港秋季電子產品展、國際電子組件及生產技術展上，台灣新創競技場（Taiwan Startup Stadium，TSS）也將與香港貿發局合作，帶領台灣團隊前往參展。

In the 2016 Taiwan Startup Ecosystem survey compiled by BusinessNext, fund raising was cited as the most significant challenge faced by nearly half of all entrepreneurs surveyed while only 13.8% had received venture capital funding.

相對國際市場，台灣市場屬於淺碟型規模，企業邁向國際化成為新創團隊必須面對的挑戰與機會。然而，新創企業在國際化的過程中，該如何練兵才能加速成長呢？

輔導台灣新創團隊進軍國際市場的台灣新創競技場總經理韓荷麗(Holly Harrington)，就以自身經驗提到：「先決條件就是溝通，讓團隊調整到共同頻率，當理念一致，步伐也才能一致。」創業有太多事情要煩惱，如果要做國際化，絕對不能自亂陣腳，因此有共同的想法是很重要的。

在競爭激烈的創業加速器中，以「在台創業家準備往海外擴張的重點前哨站」為定位，吸引不少有積極企圖心的團隊進駐，而我們在TSS也為新創企業常遇到的問題，找到一些解答。

Jerry Yang, Kai-Fu Lee, Steve Chen: what do they have in common? They are all top-tier Silicon Valley stars who were born in Taiwan. Taiwan has been well known for manufacturing semiconductor for decades. The world’s largest pure-play foundry counts some of the top fabless companies such as Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices as its customers.

台灣新創競技場於 7/11-13 期間帶領 8 家台灣新創團隊以 #TaiwanRocks 品牌展區參與今年香港舉辦的科技盛會 RISE，其中參與展覽中的簡報競賽的新創公司包括全球首座點數旅遊搜尋引擎 Pointimize 、快速預訂旅遊娛樂行程的手機程式 FunNow 、企業最愛的秒回客服問卷系統 SurveyCake 參與國際新創簡報大賽，與各國優秀新創較勁，尤其是 Pointimize 更突破亞洲四大城市的英文簡報比賽 （台北、香港、東京、新加坡），成為最終勝出冠軍，獲得進軍今年十一月的歐洲科技盛會 Web Summit 門票得主！

As reported by BNext/Meet, Taiwan Startup Stadium and Team Taiwan are wowing the audience at the 2017 RISE conference in Hong Kong.

Day 2 of the exhibition again saw an abundance of renowned speakers from different fields such as Siu Rui Quek , Co-founder and CEO of Carousell, or Xiaochuan Wang, the CEO of Sogou, who captured the audience with their speech titled “Me, Myself and AI.”

But startups, too, left their mark anew. For instance, at the Taiwan Startup Stadium Pavilion, FunNow and SurveyCake presented captivating pitches on the central stage. Here we are taking a closer look at the two Team Taiwan representatives.

The RISE Conference 2017 kicked off officially on July 11 in Hong Kong. The three- day exhibition is organized by the team behind Web Summit, which in only six years has become the largest tech conference in Europe.

This year, RISE brings together a host of exciting new and well-known tech firms from a wide variety of fields. For instance, German online booking platform Trivago, which recently has launched a highly-visible global ad campaign, is attending the show, as are established companies such as Airbus orGoogle. Additionally, many industry experts are presenting speeches on various topics at RISE 2017.

Holly Harrington, general manager from Taiwan Startup Stadium joined us on a conversation about the Taiwan startup stadium & ecosystem. We discussed the mission and role of Taiwan Startup Stadium with entrepreneurial ecosystem in Taiwan, the up and coming startups & the nascent investor ecosystem in Taiwan. Last but not least, she discussed the interesting

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