SURF 2021 – the annual start-up exhibition event organized by the Danang Department of Science and Technology to support start-up activities has officially come back with adjustments in response to the pandemic context.

Extended Danang Start-up Exhibition SURF 2021 is a program that connects start-ups and investors, consequently opening a chance for businesses to promote, learn, and accumulate experiences.

Entrepreneurship is a growing trend nowadays. It opens up a new path with opportunities that lead youth to glory. However, along the path, there will certainly be difficulties and challenges in which without preparation in advance, they will easily fall. As a consequence, through this article, SURF 2021 introduces you to 3 methods to start a startup to minimize risk.

Steve Jobs introduced the first Iphone in 2007. Then what? Do you still have to go buy paper maps every time you travel? Do you still flip your desk calendar to see what’s available today? Technology is changing everything, even the food industry. Ten years later, what we eat now and the operating systems behind it may be as obsolete as brick-and-mortar phones. The question now is no longer whether it will reshape the way we process, eat or transport food, but how?

More than 110,000 enterprises were set up in Vietnam in 2016, according to statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and Da Nang’s contribution to this record number of new establishments so far is clearly considerable. Start-ups in Da Nang have benefited from investment and support of the local authority through the Startup Network Coordinating Council, and from support services provided by local incubators and coworking spaces. Nevertheless, overall, there exists a gap still in the ecosystem of Da Nang and those of its peer cities Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City. That leads to a question for Da Nang’s start-ups: what should they do to succeed as well as to benefit these supports at a maximum?

What is entrepreneurship?

The entrepreneurship spirit, also known as the spirit of entrepreneurship, is a term that has appeared in the world for a long time. According to researchers, the true entrepreneurial spirit must be people whose ambition to overcome fate, take risks with the spirit of innovation and creativity; at the same time, bravely endure serious physical and mental disasters when doing business at a loss.

Over the past few years, the city government, business associations, social organizations and businesses themselves in Da Nang have attempted to build an innovative start-up ecosystem (Innovation), though still Young but with a breakthrough, creativity and suitable local real conditions has greatly contributed to the development of the national startup ecosystem.

TECHFEST 2020 with the theme “Adapt – Transform – Breakthrough” will continue the success of previous seasons to provide a potential playground for connecting and gathering domestic and international investment resources to start a business in a difficult situation caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.

So after many days, the start-up and creative exhibition – SURF 2020 officially named the 10 most outstanding projects attending Techfest 2020.

SURF is the largest annual startup and creative exhibition in the Central region of Vietnam, including conferences, seminars, exhibitions, investment connection programs, connecting party nights and many other activities. In 2020 in the context of COVID 2019, SURF returns with a new face to arouse and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, seek business and investment opportunities, and select the 10 best startup projects to TECHFEST 2020