Project Completion Report
SECTION A: Project profile
Project number & title:
Project time period:
Committee / WG / Fora:
Project Overseer Name /
Organization / Economy:
SME 02 2014 - APEC Start-ups Conference III: Global Thinking to Make
Global Business
June -November 2014
15 December
Date submitted:
2014
Small and Medium Enterprise Working Group- SMEWG
Mr. Angel Paul Hurtado Erazo /
Ministry of Production / Peru
SECTION B: Project report and reflection
1. Project description: In 3-4 sentences, please describe the project and its main objectives.
The Start-ups are playing an important role in sustainable growth of APEC economies, so this project sought to
consolidate and expand the start-up culture and interaction between APEC economies, improving the ecosystem
for start-ups. Start-ups will interact with corporations, investors, business incubators - accelerators and
policymakers, so that all key factors are covered. The main objectives of this project is becoming an important node
of the Start-up Ecosystem in this APEC region with annual meetings for entrepreneurs, start-ups, business
incubator, mentor and investors, as well as, facilitating access for entrepreneurs and start-ups to diverse global
contest or start-up programs for APEC economies.
In the framework of this project was scheduled to carry out two days of conference, the first day there was an open
conference, in the morning; a visit two incubators was scheduled in the afternoon. The second day there was an
open session in the morning and Global Corporations of start-up presented their programs to start-ups and
entrepreneurs, in the afternoon.
2. Meeting objectives: Describe how the project met each of its proposed objectives. Please outline any
challenges you may have encountered in delivering the activity.
The Conference was designed to foster and encourage to participants to develop a global mindset if they are starting
new business.
The first day, in the morning the international keynote speakers shared their experiences and points of view on
entrepreneurship, the attitude and skills that anyone entrepreneur have to develop to start a new business oriented
to global market (attended to this event approximately 300 participants)
For example, Jeff Hoffman from the United Stated, said "the Entrepreneurship is not about making money; it’s about
designing and owning your future", and keynote speaker, Bernard Moon also from United States, pointed out the
features of the world class ecosystem and what characteristic he looking for into a start-up before invest.
Two of international keynote speakers were successful entrepreneur women, Ms. Rina Neoh and Ms. Justine Liu,
one from Malaysia and the other from Chinese Taipei, respectively. They shared their business experiences and the
challenges that they faced by success; this was very inspiring for female young entrepreneurs.
In the afternoon, APEC delegates and keynote speakers visited one incubator business and one accelerator
business to know how it works:


Wayra Peru; it is an important accelerator business, Wayra is Telefónica's startup accelerator and it helps
the best entrepreneurs to grow and build successful businesses (Telefonica is a big spanish company in
telecommunications). The visit included a Wayra institutional presentation and five startups of Wayra made
a pitch of their business project to delegation.
Starscamp (business incubator), it was founded by three professional women; this incubator promote
different kind of entrepreneurs projects, including social and environmental projects; here two Start-ups
made a pitch to delegation.
The second day was dedicated to startups and programs to promote or support to startups. In the morning,
delegates from Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, The Philippines and Viet Nam, shared their business initiatives on Start-
Ups. Their presentations were very interesting experiences in fields as Information and Communication
Technology- ICT, manufacturing, nanotechnology and handicraft with support by 3D print. In the afternoon, the
speakers were global corporations, government programs and university programs to start-ups and entrepreneurs.
3. Evaluation: Describe the process undertaken to evaluate the project upon completion. (e.g. evaluation
through participant surveys, peer reviews of outputs, assessments against indicators, statistics
demonstrating use of outputs etc.). Provide analysis of results of evaluations conducted and where
possible include information on impacts on gender. Evaluation data needs to be included as an appendix.
One survey was applied to delegates of APEC economies; this survey includes two main questions.
1.
How would you grade the benefits gained from the Startup Conference funded by APEC?
very high
1.1.
To know other experiences
on the promotion of startups.
1.2.
The knowledge acquired in
the Conference will be useful for
your next activities in your work?
1.3.
I was able to establish
contacts with counter parts and
other participants.
2.
high
fair
22%
78%
11%
78%
11%
22%
67%
11%
poor
very
poor
Please, could you give us some suggestions to improve or identify new activities or projects (new
topics on Start-up) for the short and middle term?
The participants gave these comments and suggestions:
 “This is good event. To sustainability connectivity among start-ups, keep this event for multy year
event and the next conference topis better about sustanability business start-up”.
 “An improvement I would recommend to this conference project is in general to broaden the project
to be more as Startup empowering rather than just a conference. But, What I do dreaming is, to
have some coaching from CEO of the worldwide Company on running their Enterprise. It must be
inspiring for all joining Start-up”.
“So in real, the new project I propose is APEC Startup Training Program. This program can be
integrated with Startup conference anyway, but with two or more session for training from giant
company like Google, Microsoft, or Apple, or Samsung. Invite those companies to train Startup
CEO How to scale-up their business in the point of view of highly experience practitioner. I am very
sure; this Startup Training Program will be more beneficial to participant as they will get the real
picture on fighting to scale-up the business in a global mindset. I think it will require more time/day
and cost to spend. But if it’s worth it, why not organize”.
 “It would have been much better if there were more visits and sharing from Business Incubators”.
 “Spending more time to visit the incubators”.
 “Reinforce the participation of the public sector in order to share with the participants the supports
the APEC governments have elaborated for the startups”.
 “Open a section of specific results from the startups and how are they impacted in jobs,
productivity, competitiveness and GDP2.
 “Integrate the results and the policies presented by each economy and promote it in the APEC
region”.
 “In order to enhance the startup ecosystem, we need to reinforce the startup community in the
means of the entrepreneurship program badge such as startup mobile app, startup Saas for cloud
computing etc. Meanwhile you should organize activities to build the community of angel investors
such as networking, workshop to give the awareness of the startup, bridge the gaps of the startup
and angel investors to let them to meet up and discuss. I strongly believe that if the angel investors
have more knowledge about the startup, the more angel will invest”.
 “Please help start-up entreprenuers to become more established or maybe provision of some
machineries and equipment needed by the small entreprenuers to widend its service or to develop
its production process”.
We can see the comments and suggestions are around of these points:

Reinforce the startup ecosystem through:






Keep on this event for multiyear event;
Startup Training Program with global mindset;
An entrepreneurship badge program;
More visits and sharing from Business Incubators.
Organize activities to build the community of angel investors such as networking, workshop to
give the awareness of the startup.
Policies strategies
 Integrate the results and the policies presented by each economy and promote it in the APEC
region.
4. Output indicators: Describe the main project outputs below. This may include workshops, tools,
research papers, reports, recommendations, best practices, action plans.
.
Indicators
# actual
Details or notes
(Edit or Insert rows as # planned
needed)
# workshops / events
Conference (two days). The first day, the
Conference was opened by Minister of Production;
01
01
and the second day was opened by Vice Minister
of Industry and SME.
# participants (M/F)
We had 42% more participants than the
Conference 2013; and 43% more women.
300
545
We have to add 714 participants connected by
(150/150)
(356/189) streaming (from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru,
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and United
States).
# economies
One economy canceled his participation at the last
attending
10
10
minute and other economy had a problem during
travel (to Peru) and had to cancel his participation.
# speakers engaged
There were four international keynote speakers,
two of them were successful entrepreneur women
(Rina Neoh and Justine Liu), they shared their
16
20
business experiences and the challenges that they
faced by success. During the conference event
participated 20 speakers at both national and
international levels.
# other organizations
Non profit organization as Endeavor Peru,
engaged
04
10
Universities (05); Microsoft Peru; Wayra Peru
among others.
# publications
The all presentations can be downloading from this
distributed
website and you can see a short video of event
and interviews.
300
300
http://start-up.pe/apec/
# recommendations
agreed on
Other:
01
01
02
02
Summary and conclusions.
Streaming live video for two days.
Comments:
The Conference was opened by Mr. Piero Ghezzi, Minister of Production, who reaffirmed the commitment of Peru
to strengthen the cooperation with other APEC economies to promote the entrepreneurship and start-ups as
strategy to develop of our economies.
On July 2014, the Ministry of Production has approved the National Plan of Productive Diversification with objectives
of promoting economic diversification, expanding the productivity and reducing the administrative obstacles. In this
context, Ministry of Micro and Small Enterprises and Industry’s main priorities are aligned with the issues that have
been discussed within the Small and Medium Enterprise Working Group (SMEWG).
The Minister mentioned that one priority for the Production Sector is the promotion of start-up. Peru currently has a
Start-up Program, which provide seed capital to innovative and technology-based enterprises. It is important to
mention that, PRODUCE learned about start-up programs of other countries from a workshop organized in Korea
in 2012
The numbers of participants exceeded the estimated number; this is a measure how increased the people interested
in the entrepreneurship and Start-ups, and how increased the local institutions dedicated to promote
entrepreneurship as business incubators (basically at universities); some business angels (is a very small
movement yet).
5. Outcomes: Describe any specific medium-term changes to policy, processes or behavior that can be
attributed to result from this activity. Please include details on:
 What indicators were used to measure medium-term impact? (Example indicators: type/number of
policies/ regulations/processes changed, % of businesses conforming to new standards, change in
sector’s commercial activity, # individual action plans developed, # agencies using resource or tools
etc.)
 Monitoring plans in place and proposed indicators to measure impacts, including any impacts on
gender. Please summarize relevant information.
We considered the number of policies and programs that were created from last APEC Start-up Conference (2013)
to date; in the case of Peru, at the end of 2013 we launched Start-up Perú program (seed capital program); and to
measure medium-term impact, we consider the number of startups that have been participated in our program and
how many were successful. Meanwhile, on the same way, economy Chinese Taipei is working to foster an APEC
ecosystem of Start-ups, they made the APEC Accelerator Network Directory.
At the end of the year 2014, the international consulting contracted by our Ministry, will start the design a proposal
of national entrepreneurship policy. To measure medium-term impacts, we consider the increase of number of Startups per year, number of business incubators, and number of business angels and ventures capital incorporated to
Peruvian ecosystem.
We will coordinate with other economies to measure the evolution of APEC Start-up ecosystem; it is possible we
need an APEC project to measure the changes.
6. Participants (compulsory for events): Must be gender-aggregated. May be included as appendix.
Economy
(Insert rows as needed)
Australia
# male
# female
Indonesia
delegate resident in Peru
1
Chinese Taipei
Details
2
100% of participants were women
(keynote speaker and delegate resident
in Peru);
1
Keynote speaker
2
Malaysia
Mexico
2
Delegate
Papua New Guinea
1
Delegate
Peru
345
Thailand
The Philippines
1
United States
2
Viet Nam
Other:
2
356
183
35% of participants were women;
2
100% of participants were women;
1
Both were keynote speakers
189
35% of participants were women
The two days seminar brought together a network of different players of ecosystem of startups, 412
attendees from the private sector, including SME business leaders, 88 participants from universities
(professors and students).
Comments: What was the approach undertaken for participant nomination/selection and targeting? Please
provide details. What follow-up actions are expected? How will participants/beneficiaries continue to be
engaged and supported to progress this work?
Through the Circular Administrative was requested to eligible economies the participation of two delegates one
from private sector (start-up) and other from public sector.
Regarding to keynote speakers, 50% were successful entrepreneur women. The idea was encourage the young
women to start their own business.
7. Key findings: Describe 1-3 examples of key findings, challenges or success stories arising from the
project (e.g. research or case studies results, policy recommendations, roadblocks to progress on an
issue, impacts on gender).

The participants (APEC entrepreneurs) pointed out the Conference is very important to development
a global mindset, but that is not enough, they suggest implementing a APEC Start-up training
program.

The delegates pointed out that are very important sharing best practices between business
incubators, also between the business angels and ventures capitals.

The seed capitals are very important funds in the early stages of start-up, and the governments play
a key role in supply or promote these funds.

SMEs, as handicraft, can improve quality product and productivity when using new technologies (for
example digital manufacturing).
8. Next steps: Describe any planned follow-up steps or projects, such as workshops, post-activity
evaluations, or research to assess the impact of this activity. How will the indicators from Question 5 be
tracked? How will this activity inform any future APEC activities?
We will make a design a new project that includes a Conference (we will take the suggestions of the last Start-up
conference) and research on policies and programs Start-up in six or seven APEC Economies; and we will evaluate
if we can elaborate another project to make a Start-up training program.
9. Feedback for the Secretariat: Do you have suggestions for more effective support by APEC fora or the
Secretariat? Any assessment of consultants, experts or other stakeholders to share? The Secretariat
examines feedback trends to identify ways to improve our systems.
We suggest to the APEC Secretariat can promote or suggest to economies the use the Live streaming video in the
conferences and make a short recording about it; in this way more people from APEC Economies can participate
in conferences, for example in the APEC Startup Conference III: Global Thinking to Make Global Business
SECTION C: Budget
Attach a detailed breakdown of the APEC- provided project budget, including:
 Planned costs: (using most recently approved budget figures)
 Actual expenditures
 Variance notes: An explanation of any budget line under- or over-spent by 20% or more.
Initially, the total budget of the project was of USD 194 330 Dollars; USD 108 330 Dollars was required to the
APEC Secretariat and US$ 86 000 Dollars was required to Peru. However, the real cost to implement this
project was as follows:
APEC Secretariat
:
Peru (Ministry of Production) :
USD 59 807, 07
USD 43 942,46
TOTAL SPENT
USD 102 749,53
:
It is important to point out that the amount required initially it is not the same amount to the paid in the
implementation stage due to the following reasons:

Delegates from Chile and Russia could not attend to the conference; delegates from China and
Malaysia at the last minute could not participate; and Papua New Guinea had one participant.
Item description
Speaker´s honorarium
Travel –Airfare and per diem
(speakers and delegates)
Project total (USD)
Item description
Simultaneous translation (2
interpreters
Short-term clerical fees
Publication/distribution of
report (USB, promotion
materials, banners, backings
and landing pages)
Specialized equipment or
materials (please describe)
Interpretation equipment for 2
days. Printer, PC rental, LCD
projector, laptop. Other office
supplies for participants (2
days)
Photocopying
Communications (telephone,
fax, mail, courier)
Live Video Streaming over the
Internet
Hosting (provide breakdown,
e.g., room rental, stationery)
Component total
Project total
BUDGET
APEC SECRETARIAT
Budget
Paid
4 800,00
4 800,00
Balance
00,00
103 530,00
55 007,07
48 522,93
108 330,00
59 807,07
48 522,93
BUDGET
PERU
Budget
Paid
Balance
5 000,00
1 525.86
3474.14
3 000,00
2 758,62
241,38
4 000,00
6 231,72
(2 231,72)
8 891,03
4 108,97
0,00
1000,00
4 184,19
15 815.81
20 351,03
19 648,97
86 000,00
43 942,45
42 057,55
194 330,00
103 749,52
90 580,48
13 000,00
1 000,00
20 000,00
40 000,00
SECTION D: Appendices
Please attach the following documentation to the report as required. Note that the participant contact list is a
mandatory requirement for all Project completion reports.

Appendices
Notes
Participant contact list: contact info, gender, job titles (mandatory)
Experts / consultants list: contact info, job titles, roles, gender
Event Agenda
Reports, websites or resources created: links or soft copies
Post activity survey or other evaluation data (raw and/or aggregated)
Other information or resources
FOR APEC SECRETARIAT USE ONLY APEC comments: Were APEC project guidelines followed?
Could the project have been managed more effectively or easily by the PO?
The project achieved its objectives. Contributive comments from participants show that they are
interested in and benefited from attending the project. As the project series on Startup Conference
have been organized annually, it helps address systematically issues related to the promotion of
startups. The project is efficiently managed and followed APEC guidelines.
Participant contact list
Economy: Indonesia
S/N Title
Name
1
2
Mr.
Mr.
DANIEL
ASNUR
EKO
SUSATIO
ECONOMY: M EXICO
S/N Title
Name
Position
Organization
Email
Deputy Minister R & D
for Cooperatives and
SMEs Resources
Ministry of
Cooperatives and
SMEs
daniel_asnur@mail.com
CEO
MetaVision Studio,
Bandung Techno
Park
eko@btp.or.id
Position
eksadira@gmail.com
maharusdi@gmail.com
Organization
Email
1
Mr.
IVAN
ORNELAS
Director
Coordination for
International Affairs.
National Institute for the
Entrepreneur
ivan.ornelas@inadem.gob.mx
2
Mr.
SERGIO
LEON
Commercial
Director
Gresmex, S.A.
sergioleon@gresmex.com.mx
Economy: Papua New Guinea
S/N Title
Name
1
Mr.
HENRY
MARASEMBI
Acting
Managing
Director
Economy: Thailand
S/N Title
Name
1
Ms.
Position
CHATAMON
POLDUL
Organization
Small Business
Development
Corporation
Position
Organization
Director
Thailand Tech Startup Association
Email
hmarasembi@sbdc.gov.pg
Email
info@startupthailand.org
chatamon.poldul@gmail.com
2
Ms
SRITHIP UTCHIN
Business
Center
Manager
Economy: The Philippines
S/N Title
Name
Position
National Science
and Technology
Development
Agency - Ministry of
science and
technology.
Kingdom of Thailand
Organization
srithip@nstda.or.th
Email
1
Ms.
CLAIRE
VENICE
CANILAO
Sales and
Marketing
Manager
Prime of Asia
Handicraft
pahandicraft@yahoo.com
danielle_nicolecanilao@yahoo.com.ph
Jessie_canilao@yahoo.com
2
Mr.
ERICKSON
NANGKIL
Technical
Manager
Fabrication
Laboratory Bohol
ericksonnangkil@yahoo.com
zonricke@gmail.com
Economy: Viet Nam
S/N Title
Name
1
Mr.
MINH
NGUYEN
DUC
2
Mr.
LE HUU TRI
Position
Deputy
manager
Americas
Market
Chairman
Organization
Email
Ministry of
Industry and
Trade of Vietnam
minhngduc@moit.gov.vn
nguyenminh2011@gmail.com.vn
Tan Nhat Huong
Co. Ltd. Viet Nam
trile@tannhathuong.com
Keynote Speakers
S/N Economy Title
Name
Position
Organization
Email
1
The
United
States
Mr.
Bernard
Moon
Co-founder &
Partner
SparkLabs
Global
Ventures
bernard.moon@gmail.com
2
Chinese
Taipei
Ms
Yung Pei
Justine
Liu
CEO &
Founder
Enjeweled Co.,
Ltd.
justine101417@gmail.com
3
Malaysia
Ms
Rina
Neoh
Co Founder,
Managing
Partner
Co Founder,
Executive
Director
Fix Point Pte
Ltd
Co Founder
Priceline.com
ColoJar LLC
4
The
United
States
Mr.
Jeff
Hoffman
rina@fix-point.co
rinaneoh@gmail.com
Nest Inc.
jeff@colorjar.com
hoffjeff@yahoo.com
APEC Start-ups Conference III:
Global Thinking to Make Global Business
Octubre 28-29, 2014
PROGRAM
Sala Plaza Olivar - Hotel Sonesta El Olivar
Calle Pancho Fierro 194, San Isidro
TUESDAY OCTOBER 28
TIMELINE
OPENING SESSION
SESSIONS
SESSION 1 - STARTUPS WITH GLOBAL THINKING
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
Opening remarks
Mr. PIERO GHEZZI, Minister of Production
09:15 – 10:40

Mr. Jeff Hoffman, Priceline / ColorJar (USA)

Ms. Rina Neoh, Fix Point Pte. Ltd (MALAYSIA)
10:40 – 11:00
Q&A
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45

Mr. Bernard Moon, SparkLabs Ventures (USA)

Ms. Justine Liu Yung Pei, Enjeweled Co. Ltd (CHINESE TAIPEI)
12:45 – 13:00
Q&A
13:00 – 14:15
FREE LUNCH
CLOSED SESSION
SESSION 2 - BUSINESS INCUBATORS SHARE EXPERIENCE
15:00 – 16:15
Visit to Peruvian business incubators, sharing and discuss on experiences
to incubate and accelerate business in early stages.
Participants: Delegates, entrepreneurs and Start-APEC, mentors and
investors.
Incubator: Wayra
16:15 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 17:45
Continue visit to business incubators
Sharing and discuss on experiences between Start-ups, mentors and
delegates.
Incubator: Starscamp
19:30 – 20:45
Networking Dinner
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29
Timeline
Sessions
CLOSED SESSION
SESSION 1 - START-UP: THE RIDERS OF GLOBAL BUSINESSES
(Presentations of cases Start-up and SME from APEC economies)
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:10
Opening remarks
Ms. SANDRA DOIG, Viceminister of MSE and Industry – Ministry of
Production
09:10 – 10:20
Presentation of Start-up/SME from APEC economies members (07 Startups)
 Mr. Eko Susatio, MetaVision Studio, Bandung Techno Park
(Indonesia)
 Ms. Claire Venice Canilao, Prime of Asia Handicraft (Philippines)
 Mr. Amadeus Malca, Inclass Inc. (Peru)
 Miguel Enriquez, Digiscend (Peru)
10:20 – 10:40
Q&A
10:40 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:20
 Mr. Le Huu, Tan Nhat Huong, Co. Ltd. (Viet Nam)
 Mr. Sergio León, Gresmex, S.A. (Mexico)
 Mr. César Gálvez, Touch Entertainment SAC (Peru)
 Mr. Mario Gil, Bederr - powered by Dipoo (Peru)
12:20 – 12:30
Q&A
12:30 – 14:20
FREE LUNCH
OPENING SESSION
SESSION 2 - PROGRAMS AND GLOBAL CONTESTS TO FUND START-Ups
(example Start-up Peru, UTEC Ventures, others)
14:00 – 14:30
Registration
14:30 – 15:30
 Ms. Chatamon Poldul, Thailand Tech Start-up Association (Thailand)
 Mr. Iván Ornelas, Mexico National Institute for the Entrepreneur
(Mexico)
 Ms. Ana Sofía Valdivia, Endeavor Perú (Peru)
15:30 – 15:50
Q&A
15:50 - 16:00
Coffee Break
 Mr. Jorge Oblitas, Microsoft Perú (Peru)
 Mr. Gonzalo Villarán, UTEC Ventures (Peru)
 Mr. Giancarlo Falconí, Wayra Perú (Peru)
 Mr. Alejandro Bernaola, Start-up Perú (Peru)
17:00 -17:30
Q&A
17:30 – 18:00
Mr. ALEJANDRO BERNAOLA, Director of General Directorate of
Innovation, Technology Transfer and Business Services - Ministry of
Production
Web site
http://start-up.pe/apec/
In this web site you can see a video and download of presentations
Survey
SME 02 2014 - APEC START-UP Conference III 2014: Global Thinking to Make Global Business
October 28th - 29th, 2014 – Lima – Peru
This survey is to know of their opinions and point of view about event.
1.
How would you grade the benefits gained from the Startup Conference funded by APEC
1.1. To know other experiences on the promotion of startups
___ very
high
___ high
___ fair
1 Daniel /Indonesia
2 Eko / Indonesia
3 Iván / México
___ poor
___ very
poor
1
1
1
Henry Marasembi /
4 PNP
5
6
7
8
9
10
1
1
1
1
Chatamon / Thailand
Srithip / Thailand
Claire / Phillipines
Erickson / Phillipines
Nguyen / Viet Nam
1
Le / Viet Nam
Total
%
2
22%
1
7
78%
1.2. The knowledge acquired in the Conference will be useful for your next activities in your work?
___ very
___ very
high
___ high
___ fair
___ poor
poor
1
1
Daniel /Indonesia
Eko / Indonesia
Iván / México
Henry Marasembi /
PNP
1
1
1
1
1
1
Chatamon / Thailand
Srithip / Thailand
Claire / Phillipines
Erickson / Phillipines
Nguyen / Viet Nam
Le / Viet Nam
Total
%
1
11%
7
78%
1
1
11%
1.3. I was able to establish contacts with counter parts and other participants.
___ very
high
___ high
___ fair
___ poor
1
1
Daniel /Indonesia
Eko / Indonesia
Iván / México
Henry Marasembi /
PNP
1
___ very
poor
1
1
1
Chatamon / Thailand
Srithip / Thailand
Claire / Phillipines
Erickson / Phillipines
1
1
Nguyen / Viet Nam
Le / Viet Nam
Total
%
2.
2
22%
1
6
67%
1
11%
Please, could you give us some suggestions to improve or identify new activities or projects
(new topics on Start-up) for the short and middle term?.
 “This is good event. To sustainability connectivity among start-ups, keep this event for multy year
event and the next conference topis better about sustanability business start-up”.
 “An improvement I would recommend to this conference project is in general to broaden the project
to be more as Startup empowering rather than just a conference. But, What I do dreaming is, to
have some coaching from CEO of the worldwide Company on running their Enterprise. It must be
inspiring for all joining Start-up”.
“So in real, the new project I propose is APEC Startup Training Program. This program can be
integrated with Startup conference anyway, but with two or more session for training from giant
company like Google, Microsoft, or Apple, or Samsung. Invite those companies to train Startup
CEO How to scale-up their business in the point of view of highly experience practitioner. I am very
sure; this Startup Training Program will be more beneficial to participant as they will get the real
picture on fighting to scale-up the business in a global mindset. I think it will require more time/day
and cost to spend. But if it’s worth it, why not organize”.
 “It would have been much better if there were more visits and sharing from Business Incubators”.
 “Spending more time to visit the incubators”.
 “Reinforce the participation of the public sector in order to share with the participants the supports
the APEC governments have elaborated for the startups”.
 “Open a section of specific results from the startups and how are they impacted in jobs,
productivity, competitiveness and GDP2.
 “Integrate the results and the policies presented by each economy and promote it in the APEC
region”.
 “In order to enhance the startup ecosystem, we need to reinforce the startup community in the
means of the entrepreneurship program badge such as startup mobile app, startup Saas for cloud
computing etc. Meanwhile you should organize activities to build the community of angel investors
such as networking, workshop to give the awareness of the startup, bridge the gaps of the startup
and angel investors to let them to meet up and discuss. I strongly believe that if the angel investors
have more knowledge about the startup, the more angel will invest”.
 “Please help start-up entreprenuers to become more established or maybe provision of some
machineries and equipment needed by the small entreprenuers to widend its service or to develop
its production process”.