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Podcast: Asia Tech Podcast
Episode:

ATP Stories: Bobby Liu – Vietnam and the $250 billion EdTech market
Category: Business
Duration: 00:55:46
Publish Date: 2018-03-04 04:00:00
Description:

Podcast highlights:

  • 01:10 Why would a foreign entrepreneur coming to Vietnam choose to base a startup in Hanoi not Ho Chi Minh City?
  • 19:00 Thoughts on raising money, regrets on not raising money and building tech startups without funding
  • 36:00 How has the Vietnam startup ecosystem changed in the last 5 years?

Podcast notes:

  • 00:05 Introduction to ATP Stories - Bobby Liu, Senior Director, Topica
  • 01:10 Why would a foreign entrepreneur coming to Vietnam choose to base a startup in Hanoi not Ho Chi Minh City?
  • 02:30 Why did Bobby move to Vietnam in 2007 to start a business?
  • 06:00 How Bobby started his own golf apparel business in Vietnam
  • 08:55 Building an online service to highlight Vietnam's city life and later a tourism service
  • 19:00 Thoughts on raising money, regrets on not raising money and building tech startups without funding
  • 21:10 Bobby's introduction to the coworking sector in Vietnam
  • 24:30 How Bobby got involved with Topica and Founder's Institute in Hanoi
  • 27:00 What is Topica and what does it do in online education?
  • 31:40 How does Bobby encourage startup founders to get out there and network?
  • 36:00 How has the Vietnam startup ecosystem changed in the last 5 years?
  • 40:30 EdTech's $250 billion market
  • 44:00 Demo Day for the last batch of his accelerator
  • 45:55 Organizing Techfest in Vietnam
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