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【📣InnoVEX's Partner 創業歸故里創新創業競賽's Event - Support your place with Smart Technology Startup Competition!】

The competition welcomes Startups to create innovative ideas, and use Smart Technology to narrow the urban-rural and interregional gap! ⚡

The resources for competitors to explore include:
💰 Prize for the winners!
👩🏫Variety of support: talent consulting, marketing, and matchmaking
🏢 Localize developing opportunities
🏡Places & Spaces to work
⚙ A chance to do P.O.C.(Proof Of Contents)

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a great product can't get into the hands of the customer, is it a great product?

Distribution is often the middle child of any startup family (forgotten, neglected, but the most important and the best…but I digress). Oftentimes a company is so consumed with building the best product that it will forget to think about how it’s going to reach the right customer. When a founder is describing what makes their company so great, no one ever talks about the distribution. There are plenty of great products out there that never saw the light of day because poor sales and distribution killed the company. On the other hand, companies that build up strong distribution advantages can protect themselves from the competition.

A health tech company that uses AI to improve on a medical process needs to figure out how hospitals and doctors make buying decisions for these types of products. Oftentimes, it involves conducting trials with a local research hospital in cooperation with leading local doctors. The advantage here that a foreign competitor cannot easily replicate is the relationship with the local medical establishment.

A startup selling some innovative new consumer item might achieve a leading position selling on an online platform, consistently appearing at the top of search results, or a leading position negotiating shelf space with key brick-and-mortar partners.

How about when it’s time to expand to a foreign country with a big market with only nascent players? The health tech company has no relationship with the local medical establishment, and are totally indistinguishable from the dozens of other players trying to secure a trial or cooperation. They can show all the evidence they want, but evidence from a foreign country, especially if it does not share many cultural similarities, is often discounted.

The consumer item startup, entering a new market, also faces issues replicating its previous success distributing on the new country’s leading online marketplace, and will likely have to start from scratch in selling in physical stores as well. Distribution and marketing costs swell, hurting the viability of the startup in the new market.

When a startup that has figured out how to make distribution work for them by turning it into a differentiator against competitors looks to expand to a new market, it should carefully choose a market where their advantage travels.

-David

This is part 4 of the series “How well does your competitive advantage travel?”

【競賽活動轉知】

【Hult Prize@NTHU】#校園競賽

今天你有100萬美金，你將如何用它改變世界？
這是每年都等待Hult Prize得主回答的問題。
Hult Prize基金會為世界上最大的公益性商業盈利項目創業孵化平台，而堪稱「給學生的諾貝爾獎」的Hult Prize則鼓勵著青年關注並參與社會影響力創業議題，用各式商業創意來解決不同的社會困境，如能源危機、難民、饑荒、低薪等議題。
今年挑戰主題為「如何解決青年失業問題」，清大校內選拔定於12月8日。賽前我們將提供說明會與工作坊，協助你找尋解決問題的方向。如果你有著想改變世界的熱血、可以回饋社會的創新想法，Hult Prize將是你圓夢的第一步！
想知道你的點子可以如何改變世界嗎？ 歡迎來參加第二屆Hult Prize@NTHU！
說明會當天將詳細介紹Hult Prize競賽內容、時程以及規則，並邀請去年的參賽者分享經驗。

How would you change the world with $1M？
We are waiting for you, the Hult Prize challenger, to answer this question！
Also known as the "Nobel Prize for Students", Hult Prize has been encouraging students to generate startup ideas to solve the world's most critical social challenges. Within a decade, the movement has deployed more than $50M of capital into the sector and mobilized more than one million young people to rethink the future across 100 plus countries.
This year Hult Prize aims to tackle the issue of "Youth Unemployment". For those who believe in bringing up innovative ideas or reshaping the world via the power of youth, you are more than welcome to join us!
Come and board the ship of Hult Prize@NTHU！

【表單連結 Link】
https://goo.gl/forms/Y3QbhL4XOSluYU4d2

【報名時間 When】
即日起至11/30（五），23:59止。
Until midnight Friday, November 30.

【注意事項 Attention】
1. 此活動僅開放清華在校生報名參加。（包括大學部、碩博士生，以及交換生。校友不在此限）
2. 尚未招滿四人的組別依然可以登記參賽，且在報名截止日前皆可更改表單內容。
1. Students currently studying at NTHU only. (Undergraduates, graduates, Ph.D, and exchange students. Alumni excluded)
2. The information you fill out in the form is changeable before the registration deadline. Students can register for the competition without complete team members. Do come back to fill out the blank after forming a cohesive unit.

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