Ground Zero Project - Mapping the Entrepreneurial Path
Ground Zero Project hosts a collective of startup Founders video interviews depicting their entrepreneurial from idea to commercialization, Focusing on innovative and successful businesses showcase, best practices and lessons learnt and with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship knowledge leapfrog and create “success by example” references for entrepreneurs in Asia Pacific.
Ground Zero Project - Videos
Vittorio De Angelis, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Velotrade
“Web-based invoice finance marketplace bringing together businesses willing to sell their trade receivables, to investors willing to advance funds”
Pritish Sanyal, Co-Founder of IndiaTech HK
“Invest, expand and grow in Asia Pacific. Bootstrapping entrepreneurship: from idea to execution”
Raymond Mak, Co-Founder & COO of Farmacy HK
“Next generation technology allows for an unparalleled selection of colorful rare herbs & edible flowers. Trendsetting chefs are eagerly waiting for the chance to feel our textures & taste our flavours. Hyperlocal recipe ideas are about to go viral.”
Amy Pan, Co-Founder and CEO of Natives
“Starting up a language-focused business. My entrepreneurial journey, from corporate to startup.”
Patrick Davies, General Manager at Soap Cycling
“Every day thousands of children die from diseases that can be largely prevented simply by washing with soap. Soap Cycling aims to recover that soap and put it in the hands of those who need it most”
Bass Chiu, Marketing Manager at Instarem
“Cross border payments company enabling consumers, small and medium enterprises and financial institutions to make international money transfers at a low cost.”
Noel Shih Co-Founder & Strategy Planning, Simon Kung Co-Founder Finance and Operations,
Ryan Mann Co-Founder & Business Development at 3BEEBOX
“Bringing product sampling of food, snacks, beverage, make-up, skin care and household into a new dimension”
Joseph Sung, CEO and Co-Founder of Hobabike
“The challenges of leading a bicycle-sharing startup in Asia-Pacific, from sourcing to local policy ”
Garrath Wilson PhD, Lecturer in Industrial/Product Design at Lougborough design school
“In today’s competitive world the quality of the user experience offered to customers is increasingly a key differentiator in the marketplace. Customer behavior is changing and businesses are built upon stereotypes of ordinary people and their everyday lives/ambitions. A limited understanding of the experience that customers aim towards when interacting with products or services can lead to market failure or slow growth.”
9PM HK Time/2PM UK Time/9AM NY Eastern Standard Time
Natalie Fong, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of Wesurance
“Bringing insurance to the digital age and creating a new digital-insurance customer-centric experience that is fast, affordable
and hassle-free”
Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren PhD, Director of the Common Core at HKU
"The importance of #interdisciplinary and #interactive learning to address the demands of the 21st century workforce and to developed a set of “core competencies” such as communication, critical thinking, #collaboration, and #creativity. The Core exposes students to important cross-disciplinary knowledge that connects topics across differences instead of narrowing them to ever greater degrees of #specialization whilst providing the opportunity to deepen one’s informed ethical responsiveness to the profound #challenges the world faces at present."
Paul Turner Director for East Asia at IIE
“The impact and benefits of studying abroad from the perspectives of students, professionals, corporations and local ecosystems. Global scholarships are of paramount importance and IIE manages many of the world's most prestigious ones. Through a wide variety of educational programs sponsored by the U.S. government, corporations, foundations and foreign governments, IIE annually works with thousands of U.S. and international educational institutions and more than 27,000 students, scholars and professionals
around the globe”
Serge Kisin and Ji Yeon Kwoon (Gemma), Co-founders of A Kissing Tree
“When Serge was a kid growing up in Yugoslavia, now Serbia, he always plucked berries with his friends from the bushes growing near the family home. A Kissing Tree was setup in 2017, with a plan to bring the same high-quality berries Serge grew up eating to Asia. There isn’t a berry out there they tried that matches the natural quality, taste and fragrance”
Lazzat Baitoksan, Marketing Officer at Link Pro CPA
Supporting the Startups & SME ecosystem in Hong Kong
Pedro Eloy, CEO Pelham Grey & Chairman of the ESBN Youth & Women
Entrepreneurship Taskforce
“Supercharging entrepreneurship in the 53 ESCAP Asia-Pacific countries”