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🇨🇦 2020年10月14日 #加台創新交流媒合會 🇹🇼

#加拿大新創科技加速器 與 #南科TAIRA加速器 首度跨海攜手合作！

加拿大駐台北貿易辦事處Jordan Reeves 代表：「It’s true global ICT, Electronics, global value chain in Asia are reinventing themselves, looking for new locations, new talents, new business opportunities. We've literally seen hundreds of millions of dollars for investment here moving every week. So I think it's a great time to talk technology partnerships.」

為突破疫情封鎖，此次交流媒合會以線上會議之方式，鎖定南台灣具有龐大創新能量的 #智慧製造 領域，邀請 加拿大傑出團隊： #Dataperformers 、#Deeplite、#Kinova、#Lytica 與 台灣優秀新創：#木刻思、#上善厚生、#大宏數創、#司圖科技、#旺捷智能感知 跨國分享，為加、台雙方企業及新創拓展國際商機！

今日活動由 #科技部南部科學園區管理局、 加拿大駐台北貿易辦事處、 Starfab Accelerator 三方主辦，並有眾多海內外企業： Lanner Electronics Inc.、 Might Electronic 邁特電子 、 Mosaic Venture Lab 、 #大亞電線電纜股份有限公司 、 川湖科技 、 #友上科技 、 日商瑞穗銀行 、 Grant Thornton Taiwan 正大聯合會計師事務所 、#外貿協會 、#吉源控股 、 #住華科技、 智崴資訊科技股份有限公司 、 緯創資通 Wistron Corporation 、 #燦坤先端智能股份有限公司 共襄盛舉，期盼結合企業商業網絡及資本市場，透過今年 #加台創新交流年 系列活動 擴大加台創新能量影響力！

This year is all about HealthTech and we all know why~~

Here at InnoVEX, we would like to share an upcoming pitch event for Healthcare related startups - Fit 4 Start!

Fit 4 Start is an accelerator programme initiated by the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy, managed by the Luxinnovation and supported by Technoport and the Luxembourg City Incubator. This autumn edition is open for worldwide innovated HealthTech start-ups who have strong motivation and high development potential.

Due to the current situation, pitching will take place from 28 September to 2 October exclusively online and 5 HealthTech start-ups will be selected to participate in the programme.
Successful applicants will be able to take advantage of 16 weeks of valuable lean start-up coaching, free access to the co-working space in a business incubator and could receive a start-up business grant up to €150,000 if they fulfill certain requirements.

Sounds interesting?! Well, we think so!! Stop thinking and register with them now!!

Early Stage Startup’s Acquisition Dilemma:

A common question among early stage founders is trying to figure out whether to optimize their existing acquisition channel or to find a new one, and a common answer they often receive is “it depends.”
If you are in this situation, and still haven’t figured out what to do, here are three frameworks that’ll help you navigate through the dilemma:

1. Maximize advertising inventory
Advertising inventory is the amount of ad space that is available to be sold to the advertiser, the square centimeters of ad spaces in a magazine or newspaper.

In the internet world, this refers to the amount of traffic an acquisition channel can offer, in terms of AdWords and SEO, this translates to the maximum clicks you can generate through search results.

If you are already ranking high for keywords that you care about, then there really isn’t much to optimize, you’ll likely face diminishing returns for your future efforts with a maximized inventory. But if you are only ranked 4th or 5th, and if optimizing this inventory will likely grant you 2X the traffic, then it’s worth optimizing.

Once you have maximized an acquisition channel’s inventory, it is time to find a new channel or campaign that can generate 2X the business.

2. New channel vs optimization
When a new acquisition channel launches and fails, it is often due to failing to understand how to operate the channel or it is simply a bad channel for the business, and it usually can't be fixed with optimization alone.

Handing out flyers won’t work for certain startups, and for these startups, optimizing the content on the flyer won’t lead to drastic improvement in acquisition. One signup with a “10% improvement” is still one sign up. So it is important to have the business fit the channel, and test to see if the channel is how customers find their solution to their problem.

Lastly, when it comes to early stage startups, most of the data are not going to be statistically significant, so the variations in results are simply random, thus making optimization very difficult. To avoid this common trap, look for big changes in results, these changes are the important changes that provide learnings and progress.

3. What to optimize and what to try?
There are two factors to take into consideration, time and money. If time is the abundance resource, then channels like content marketing, SEO, e-mail, referral and partnerships are more suitable to try. If money is the abundance resource, then paid marketing channels are better to experiment with.

In terms of optimization, after maximizing the best performing channel, early stage startups should focus on optimizing their website and landing page because every campaign will eventually lead there.
A 10% increase on bounce-rate equates to 10% more revenue across all of your campaigns. It could be that the testimonials are not strong enough, the value proposition is unclear, or that the pricing page is confusing. There are plenty of optimizations that can be made on the website to produce substantial results, especially for early stage startups.

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