Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked for financial mechanisms to be built to attract investment into start-ups and innovation activities from both the country’s inside and outside resources.
Viet Nam has become an ideal eco-system for both domestic and foreign start-ups, and the effects are showing, with start-ups mushrooming all over the place. Viet Nam News’s Thu Ngan spoke to fund managers and executives at successful start-ups and...
Viet Nam is among the most dynamic start-up hubs in the world and well-educated, young entrepreneurs are expected to improve the country’s position on the global start-up map.
Viet Nam needed to develop policies and an ecosystem to encourage angel investors to invest money in start-up businesses, heard a conference on Tuesday held by the Viet Nam National University’s University of Economics and Business.
Viet Nam still faces a shortage of policies for start-up development. Ministries therefore are striving to research and propose to the Government new policies for start-up community development.
Six start-ups from Malaysia and Singapore connected with entrepreneurs in Viet Nam to receive mentorship in how to penetrate the local market and network at a programme organised by the Saigon Innovation Hub on Monday.
Despite developments in human resources in the information technology (IT) sector, many Vietnamese firms still start up in other countries, such as the United States, Singapore , and Japan.
Registration is open until April 30 for an annual business start-up contest oganised by the Business Start-up Support Centre and the HCM City Young Businesspeople Association.
Entrepreneurs running around 100 start-ups will present their products
and innovative ideas to convince investors to invest in their businesses
at the 2016 Start-up Exchange to be held in HCM City at the end of this
month.