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Sign up for STARTUP101 as a Gold Member to have a two-way conversation with investors on the platform.

• Get proved first
• Online chat with investors
• Proactively send your business plan to investors
• Get advice on your business plan
• Get promoted on the main page
• Exposure on investor newsletters

Once you register and login, you can go to See Plan page to purchase Gold Membership.

Go to your interested investor pages and click on the "Self Recommendation" box to start a conversation with a investor.

Log into account and go to "My Company", click on "Unpublish and edit" to update your company information. You also need to press the "Submit for Publication" button again after updating. Our team will review the content as soon as possible and put your company on the list again.

Log into account and go to "My Company", copy "Invitation Link" and distribute the link to your startup friends to register！

Basically, it depends on your company's fundraising needs, and the plan of your shareholding structure.Do you want to raise capital by issuing preferred stock? Are there any special conditions? If you are not sure about the above questions, please press "No". If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to contact us. Thank you！

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Startup is an enterprise with innovative technology and capabilities, which is different from a start-up.

According to the definition of a Startup by the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Startup has the capacity to innovate if it has been established under the domestic law of a foreign applicant or under the Company Law or Business Registration Law of Taiwan for less than five years and meets one of the following conditions:

1. Has raised at least NT$2 million in capital on a recognized domestic or foreign fund-raising platform.
2. Registered on the Taipei Exchange.
3. Intellectual property rights have been registered, or patents have been obtained.
4. Within one year, the company has been recognized by the relevant authorities as an excellent innovation and incubation institution.
5. The person-in-charge has won awards in domestic and foreign representative entrepreneurship and design competitions.
6. The person-in-charge has been a finalist or winner of an important film festival in Taiwan or abroad.
7. The person in charge has received a grant of at least NT$2 million from the central government or a grant of at least NT$1 million from the local government.
8. Others approved by the central government.

STARTUP101 remain neutral. We only provide a matchmaking platform, but we do not step in any negotiation. Unless startups and investors actively ask for further services, which will be charged separately. STARTUP101 would not charge any matchmaking fees if startups and investors are matched successfully.