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- Request For Vietnam Startups
- Keeping Informed About Vietnam
- Vietnam and Finland partner to build startups across Vietnam
- The SLUSH Impact Pitching Competition
- Google I/O Extended Hanoi
- The REMON Project
- The UNICEF Innovation Lab in Vietnam
- First Mekong Entrepreneurship EcoSystem Summit
- Knowmads Hanoi
- TechFest Vietnam 2015
- Start Tel Aviv 2015
- Building Vietnam’s Innovation Economy
- Feedback Loops
- Forty Years Later
- Samsung’s Vision in Vietnam
- Vietnam Expo 2015
- Michelle Phan and Vietnam
- The World’s Biggest Ever Trade Deal
- Vietbuild Hanoi 2015
- Raising the Bar Across Vietnam
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Request For Vietnam Startups
/in Opportunities /by gktagroupVNREAD THE COMPANION PIECE: “FROM A SUBSIDY TO A STARTUP ECONOMY“ AGRICULTURE Vietnam accounts for more than a fifth of the global total of rice exports, it’s the world’s second largest exporter of coffee, and it’s also the second largest producer of pepper, making it an ideal prototyping arena for new farming techniques and technologies. […]
Keeping Informed About Vietnam
/in Opportunities /by gktagroupVNBack in June 2014, this blog was created with the goal to publish a post per week on a topic of interest relating to Vietnam and/or Southeast Asia. Since then, the blog has largely focused on information, trends, and events relating to technology, business, and culture in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. It’s been a great and […]
Vietnam and Finland partner to build startups across Vietnam
/in Opportunities /by gktagroupVNFinland and Vietnam—what do these two countries have in common? At first glance, perhaps not much. Vietnam has a population of 90+ million and Finland’s population doesn’t even break the six million mark. Finland’s GDP per capita is almost $50,000 while Vietnam’s is approximately $2,000. And Helsinki is considered one of the most future-oriented governments […]
The SLUSH Impact Pitching Competition
/in Opportunities /by gktagroupVNRecently, the SLUSH Impact Pitching competition was held in Hanoi. Co-sponsored by the IPP and HATCH!, the competition featured eight teams that came from across Vietnam to compete in Hanoi for three potential slots to go to attend this year’s SLUSH competition in Finland. Below are the startups and a brief summary of each team. […]
Google I/O Extended Hanoi
/in Opportunities /by gktagroupVNFor some time, Google Developer Group Hanoi (GDG Hanoi) has been helping to build the developer community here, which is remarkable considering that they are all volunteers. This month, the first Google I/O Extended event was held in Hanoi for the local community to get a first-hand look at upcoming Google products and services. Google I/O Extended […]
The REMON Project
/in Opportunities /by gktagroupVNOn July 2 and 3, the Final Conference of the Vietnamese-German Research Project Real Time Monitoring of Urban Transport—Solutions for Traffic Management and Urban Development in Hanoi (REMON) was held in Hanoi. During the conference, project representatives outlined their plans for going forward and listened to the concerns of the attendees, which ranged from data […]