NOWnews cares about youth employment problems and spares no effort to support the youth to run the creative startup business. It especially works with WeBackers, and people from the Cross-Straight with lofty ideas to hold the 2016 Junior Cross-Straight Entrepreneurship Forum. This junior forum recruited many youths with lofty ideas to run a creative startup business and the creative startup teams. After a strict evaluation, the organizer selected 6 startup teams that stood out among their peers. A final Pitch competition was held in Beijing at Ariva Beijing West Hotel on May 31 to fight for the qualification to join the first session of the world creative startups competition for overseas Chinese.
NOWnews and WeBackers chose 4 teams as well from numerous Taiwan startup teams to join the competition for startups held in this Junior Cross-Straight Entrepreneurship Forum. Among all these teams, two teams coming from Taiwan were the Hour Master and the Teascovery teams. They were listed on the final competition together with four other teams including a team called Himelight composed of overseas Chinese from Korea and Silicon Valley, Youber, an indoor vertical farm that grows plants vertically, and online APP for a romance guide called Tao-Tao-Xi.
▲Starting from the left is Frank Yao, Representative of Hour Master /Helen Lin, Special Assistant for the General Manager at NOWnews / William Chen, WeBackers CEO/James Ku, Representative of Teascovery
Teascovery won the championship, and there were six startup teams that joined the competition in this Junior Cross-Straight Entrepreneurship Forum as the final result shows. Teascovery will be representing the Taiwan region to join the first creative startup competition held for overseas Chinese around the world.
▲Starting from the left is Ma Ming-Yuan, Secretary-General of the first creative startup competition held for overseas Chinese/ James Ku, Representative of Teascovery, the winning team