Kuan-Yu Hou Email & Phone Number

Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan

- Researched over 1,500 early-stage startups, conducted more than 100 interviews, and participated in over 10 community events for outreach to identify potential partners and startup teams.- Conducted over 10 user research studies to understand the content of competing accelerator programs and the key needs of startups.- Achieved the goals of standardizing and scaling the accelerator program through process design, the creation of program manuals, and core charters.- Followed up with teams and compiled reports that included member analysis, market research, and forecasts of opportunities and risks, collaborating with the team to select over 80 startups with potential for inclusion in the program.- Fostered community engagement by organizing various events, including serving as a lecturer for university startup courses and co-hosting innovation and entrepreneurship exchange events.

- Account for Multi-million-dollar government projects, including stakeholder engagement, proposal writing, project planning, budget allocation, contract negotiation, team formation, regular reporting, and project closure with closure report.- Connected and collaborated with 100+ startups, 50+ VCs, and 20+ international startup communities, accelerators, overseas associations, etc.- Coordinated 200+ physical/online events, including exhibitions, summits, demo pitches, happy hours, workshops, forums, business meetings, overseas business trips, etc., experienced in different aspects of planning, including topic setting, copywriting, guest speaker inviting, manpower allocation, venue/catering negotiation, pre-event testing, etc.- Facilitated startup accelerating program/platform for startups achieving the goals for landing business overseas. Made 100+ connections for 20+ startups with 15+ strategic partners, 5+ companies achieved overseas landing milestone.- Scouted and filtered 300+ international startups from 20+ countries to participate in Meet Taipei Startup Festival/Meet Greater South Startup Festival- Produced various content, including series podcasts, "Silicon Valley Insight" and "Startup Island TAIWAN.", and publication of "Meet Startup Island Taiwan: The Handbook for Taiwan's Startup Ecosystem."

- Established and analyzed existing customer and potential customer data of over 2,000+ companies, and conducted 1,000+ cold outreach and appointment scheduling via email and phone, 200+ client visits/presentations.- Customized and executed 50+ B2B integrated marketing plans, including online display ads, online/newspaper advertorials, embedded marketing for podcast, social media marketing, search engine optimization, and lead-generation plans via online/offline event, etc.-Achieved sales target of 2 million TWD with 70% of deals closed from cold calling/emailing, and developed long-term connections with 40% renewing annual planning or campaigns.-Executed 100+ events with 40+ online seminars, 10+ on-site forum, 5+ customized summit/symposium, and the first AI Expo in Taiwan.

Datong District, Taipei, Taiwan

- Counted and Scrapping of Household Certificates and other documents.- Guided and helped citizens with all kinds of household questions or problems.- Utilized software to key in all household registration information.

Linkou, Taiwan

- Restocked products from backend control panel for e-commerce website

Two-Year International Business Administration Program

- 3rd Place, Digital Marketing Presentation Contest - English Presentation Competition - Business Visiting Trip, Shang Hai - Master.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

- Internship at CCMS - Internship at Asia Corbon - Research Assistant in Front Material Lab at CGU