What does startup mean to you? For me, it’s all about solving a problem and creating a positive impact in society. However, in the real world, it’s much more than that. There are different motives when it comes to starting or investing in a startup. The most common one is to make money, obviously. It’s totally fine to make money with money.

However, as time goes by, you can see that diversity is dying out in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. What I mean is that people only focus on those big money trees, such as AI, fintech, and basically anything related to technology.

Take Hong Kong as an example, the two biggest incubators are funded by the government, focusing on technology and digital products/services respectively. Those incubation programmes only target tech-related ideas. When you look for funding options, many of them are available to tech-related startups only. If most of the resources and education are available in the tech industry only, how about the others?

The other day I was doing research online and I found an online learning platform, funded by the British government. They provide various online courses for free, including entrepreneurship. Apart from that, they also have many useful tips for business planning and stuff like that. Why can’t we have something like that?

It is quite frustrating when I see how inaccessible entrepreneurship education, information, and funding are in Hong Kong. Why can’t it be more accessible? I can’t be the only one who is frustrated with this kind of “gatekeeping”, right?

Entrepreneurship should be a spectrum, instead of a “tech rush”.