Stepcase, along with local startup aNobii and with support from Chinese University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong, organized and launched a local incubation program for university students called 0 to 0.1, a first of its kind program for students who are interested in web entrepreneurship. 0 to 0.1 is a 13-week long program (the duration of their summer vacation) in which selected teams will build and launch their idea from ground up. Our founder Leon Ho and aNobii founder Greg Sung will lead the teams through the program with weekly meetings and workshops to ensure they are executing as a team and are progressing smoothly.

We have included video from our information session held back in May at City University of Hong Kong. The program was conducted mainly in Cantonese with a portion of it in Mandarin. Aside from Leon and Greg, the info session included speakers from two other startups, David Lee of EditGrid and Geng Chun-ya of EastSpider.

0 to 0.1 Incubation Program Info Session Part 1/2:

0 to 0.1 Incubation Program Info Session Part 2/2:

If you want to follow these startups, stay tuned as we will introduce the teams and their ideas in future posts.

Short answer: Definitely not. At least Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and 20 successful business people don’t think so. Guy Kawasaki, a famous venture capitalist, recommends founders:

I don’t think an M.B.A. matters very much for starting a company. A much better educational background is an engineering degree. You can always hire MBAs, but if you don’t have the ability to conceptualize and deliver a product, you’ve got nothing.

Now onto my long answers, with my thoughts: (more…)