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# Taiwan’s next big startup trends
## Decentralized Finance
- CoolBitX
    - Old tech + new application
    - supply chain integration
    - hot wallet / cold wallet
- Artisan Automation
    - automated carbon fiber bike frame	
    - Cake decorating robot
    - 傳統產業＋new tech
    - ex. Botrista
        - automate bubble tea culture
- Quantum Computing
    - protein simulation results
    - streamlined bus routes
    - quantum hacking and security
    - breaks RSA/ ECC standards
    - blockchain in QC
- Semiconductor 2.0
    - AR/VR contact lense
    - 6G coverage
    - RF energy harvesting IOT devices
    - e.g. Kenton
        - AI chipsets for edge applications
        - SW to SW+HW business model
        - 1 chip for all (high performance SOC)
    - e.g. Nanogriptech
        - gecko-inspired physical adhesive
        - semiconductor pick and place, robotic hands

***Micro x Macro trend and the intersection between the two.***
## Scaling Open Collaboration - @clkao
- how g0v.tw started
    - sunflower movement 2014
    - budget.g0v.tw
    - combine open source, hands on, public spirited
- focus on doer spirit
    - mask distribution system
    - hacking as civic participation
- Campaign Finance Registry Access
    - Charting corporate donors
    - official campaign finance records digitally available
- MDMI mis/dis/mal information
    - fact-check msg bot

***A strong democracy is a digital democracy.
Fork the government.***
ask why nobody is doing it, admit you’re the nobody,
because nobody can do everything.

***Productionizing AI and MLOps***
Streamline AI workflow
- reduce 5-6 work days to deploying model within 1 hour.
- COTS packaged software ->
- SaaS fundamentally proprietary SaaS -> 
    - Dropbox, trillions, workday
- Commercial Open-Source Software
    - gitlab
- COSS vs SaaS
    - devex not business objectives

How does radical transparency translate to InfuseAI? How do you balance data privacy with data access with your stakeholders compared to the gov0 project?
- Operate within the company
    - all information available within the employee
    - Applying governance within customer data
## Color Genomics- Nishant Bhat
- how to scale biotech startups and the 3 most exciting SCIENCE startup opportunities of the next decade
- Cost per genome sequence has gone drastically down, faster than Moore’s Law
    - cost around $4040 
- 2012 US Supreme Court Case
    - human genes cannot be patented
    - Angelina Jolie getting tested for breast cancer
- Clinical team to return results to patients
    - lab robotics
- Brought overall cost to $250
- Color -> Covid-19 testing
- Promising tech
    - programmable therapies
        - RNA based vaccines
    - Femtech
- Brain-machin e Interfaces
    - e.g. neurolink
- Enterprise Software for Biotech
- Therapeutic use of CRISPR
- takes advantage of speed because it’ll take a while for the market to shift. Think of new ways to deliver products to the customer. 
- What is it that people are actually buying? think about the product first before investing too much on technology
- Struggle with science and engineering not working well together

## The Unbounded Future of Blockchain
- nothing important lol, pretty much just anarchy, defi mindset

## Building Audacious Projects from 0 to 1- Colin Ho
- What is our North Star
    - start with a strong and clear reason so you don’t get lost
    - “Make humans inter-planetary”
    - “Democratize ocean exploration”
- How do we get there?
    - Everybody is a vector
        - capability is magnitude, direction is what you choose to work on 
    - alignments sets magnitude and direction
    - chef a, b, c making a bowl of noodle soup
- But can we get there?
    - If everybody is responsible for the outcome, everybody is empowered to choose their right direction. 
    - only someone who’s close to the problem can provide the best solution
    - be a responsible engineer
 - What if we fail? 
    - Failure is part of the process
    - maximize the speed of learning
    - fail your way to success
    - prefer spectacular failures over moderate success
- Never doubt the possibility to succeed
- execute based on the overall high arching goal
    - more bottom up as opposed to top down depends on the composition of the team
    - drive to a fundamental understanding of how things work
    - rapid prototype and MVP vs requirements gathering and mature that system and making sure that it’s reliable and diving into the detail
    - constantly recalibrating and adjusting momentum because you’re fighting against existential entropy
colin@ohcolinho.com
## Siqi Chen and Samson Ellis
- The art of presentation is the art of storytelling
- storytelling is magic
    - You say some words, cast a spell, and things happen
- Think some thoughts -> your mouth -> light + sound -> eyes + ears -> their mind
- great presentation move people to action
- observe reality: how are people who go to good school doing
- collect facts
- form opinions
- make a rational decision. 
- how we actually make decisions
    - our identity, experiences trigger emotions, which create deeply held opinions
- experiences -> emotions -> opinions
- facts -> fit facts into opinions -> A decision that feels good
- The goal of a great presentation is to create emotions
    - that persuade people to take actions
- A great presentation is a great story
    - living thing composed of three parts
        - the bones: the bones of the story, the structure
            - exposition: (this is the world as we know it)
            - rising action: something has changed in the world
            - climax: the world will never be the same again
            - resolution: this is what it means to you
        - the skin: the visual
        - the soul: the intangibles and something magical
- Support the arc with good writing
- Writing is the act of thinking outside of your brain
    - good writing makes good thoughts
    - good thoughts makes good writing
- Good writing is simple
    - if you can’t explain it simply, you probably don’t understand it
- Good writing has a rhythm
    - a cohesiveness building up to an inevitable conclusion
- Practice
    - Think by writing
- The visuals: the skin of the presentation
    - don’t make people read
    - people should be focused on you
    - lots of slides, big pictures, few words
    - one idea per slide
    - your headlines alone should tell a complete story
    - start with a story so presentation doesn’t feel disjointed
- The souls: the intangible
    - be vulnerable, creates comfort and credibility
    - every weakness is an opportunity
        - everyone is interesting if you’re willing to be vulnerable. so lead with your weaknesses and make them strength.
- Be a crafts person
    - “Good” is everywhere. but magic is rare
    - “sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”






