We’re so grateful.

Thank you so much for your time

Yeah. We’re not trying to hug you all.

All three of us were having a Michael Jackson moment.

Thank you very much, and so much, for your time. I am so grateful that Amy, Stacy and I are able to spend this time speaking with you, even though we are all in different places. All three of us were so excited to meet you.

I do believe that we’re missing out, Canada and Taiwan have offered similar working holiday visas and Taiwanese people receive a six-month visa waiver on arrival in Canada and only required to obtain an ETA. That’s a good chunk of time.

I promised Francis Feng that I was going to put that flag in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, if I had to bring it myself.

What we are trying to do, is also offer the government our idea and use the grants that are available for children grade 7-12, giving them a chance to study in some of the top destinations for education in Canada. Taiwan also has a tax treaty for businesses that operate ...

Yes, especially because the price for an education, as an international student, it’s around 56,000 for let’s say, an engineering degree and that’s the price for the entire four years. The price of a semester for a local American citizen at university is around 50,000 dollars so I can only ...

I think Stacy still has a few more notes?

My Chinese is usually enough for me to communicate what I would like to say, but it makes it more simple for everyone involved.

It’s easier for me than having someone ask Stacy a bunch of questions that don’t apply to why I’m calling. I always remind her to remind me I can do it.

Maybe. I always tell Stacy remind me when I ask you to help me make a simple phone call. Something as easy as getting my free months of Internet service for referring somebody in my community to remind me to do it myself.

Whereas, when I went by myself, I had no problems getting a HSBC bank account. My language was enough to explain what I needed. Also, hers was limited enough that she didn’t need to ask the difficult questions because I was able to answer the simplified ones.

That’s a very good point. I’m going to suggest that for Elias and his speech. I have found when I went to HSBC, if I took a Taiwanese person with me, it was much more difficult for the bank lady because she had more intricate questions.

Right.

We wouldn’t want to put Stacy in a position where is the Taiwanese face of our company in order to be able to qualify for something that maybe a foreigner with an APRC, and this experience should be eligible for but struggle to communicate and obtain business or personal loans ...

That’s great. That helps a lot. When you went to America after quitting school and opening up your first, did you find it was as difficult for? What we’ve notice, and Elias says this about it in his book of “How to Start a Business in Taiwan,” is that the ...

Thank you for providing us with the list. We will do some research and approach some companies that we might be able to help.

Since there are only three registered consultant in Taiwan, we would be able to offer them any unique opportunity that would definitely benefit both their clients and their businesses.

That’s a great plan. Then we have the ability to help one or some of these companies ensure they are working with a licensed RCIC. It would be nice to be able to help one of those companies that exist and offer them services and face-to-face consultations.

That is a very good point. The list that I was given was only a partial list. If you know how we can find that full list of registered companies.

Wonderful. That’s great. I’ve opened all the links, that way, Stacy can go through them as well. This is all great. Again, similar to what I was hoping to get from this conversation is some guidance as to how to approach starting this process, and then how and who to ...

I’m so grateful you were lenient and agreed to meet with us. Once we register, we will be sure to complete your social innovation network regestration. I’m grateful I tried to set up this meeting with you.

I know Amy and I can easily put forth $100,000 if that’s what it takes to get the name.

Stacy is actually one of the very first people I met when I landed on this island. We were teaching together back in Changhua in 2008. I’ve begged her to come on board with us, and I’m happy she’s accepted it. She has some ideas as to how she can ...

We will contact the minitery of interior to dicuss as how to proceed with our registration.

OK. Stacy noticed that we would have to provide the accountant with the paperwork and deposit and then they will process the business registration for us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. That’s what makes our NT $1.5 million buy-in a little bit more…

My thoughts are working with the local MOEs and the government to encourage them to offer grants for public school students who are exemplary. This way, it can help them get a Canadian education and be emersed in an English culture. With the government providing them with grants, they will ...

In Ontario, there’s a vast number of schools that the children can choose from and join a homestay program (grade 7-12). These programs and their education would give them a better chance to study at Canadian universtities or schools like NTU in Taiwan.

We focus mainly on the East Coast, the West Coast, and then where I’m from in Ontario. Amy’s from Nova Scotia, so we focus a lot on the East Coast as well. We have quite a few districts of public schools on the West Coast as well, but all our ...

These opportunies would be directly with the schools we work with. The children work with education advisors who help them find universities and we would process visa applications. We would connect younger students (grade 7-12) or one of our private school partners who also offer homestay programs.

The students will also have a chance to maybe study music, photography, or something that is available to us for summer programs.

We have a few university partners, like Ryerson. You did speak to the chancellor, Janice, back in March. She’s wonderful. The problem that I find with the university partners is that you don’t become bilingual in four years once you’ve already developed your skills and your specialty.

We work with the entire districts of public schools in Canada. All of our districts have homestay programs. The kids would not be staying in dormitories, they would be living with parents and families of kids that go in that district. They would be able to experience what it’s like ...

No. We would working in immigration. What I do as an RCIc is handle all of the student visas applications to ensure they are complete, giving them the best chance for a successful results. Their schools will direct them to the education advisors or maybe the schools we work with.

So, two women took the top two spots which is cool, both have ideas for children in education. If we were able to find maybe some of these grants, this money would help with the license registration wouldn’t use any angel investor money to do what we need.

We were wondering if there was any that you are able to help us look into or certain grants available in Taichung city. At this point, there aren’t that many from what I’ve found. Also, for women in business, the first place winner is also a woman from Taichung.

Here in Taichung we’re very lucky, but in order to have something similar to that we would need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to have an office with a door, in order to be qualified for some of those grants available in Taipei.

She’s one of the Dragons Amy and I were lucky enough to have her in the office on Monday down in Taichung at our office and she mentioned, “Have you looked at any of the grants?” Yes, there are lots of grants in Taipei, but we have a beautiful 24th ...

She owns Anemone Ventures Ltd.

On top of that, I want to mention as well one of the people we met with Revital Shpangental. I’m sure you might know her as…

Why don’t you go ahead, Stacy, and give Audrey an idea of what she might understand from your perspective.

We are pursuing some investment in Canada. It is very hard for Taiwanese investors to understand how their money can be used with regards to that much would be going into just allowing us to operate. It’s been one of the more difficult roadblocks we found because they don’t think ...

We just recently came second in the Taipei Meet Dragons’ Chamber Event on the 20th of November, a couple of weekends ago, I guess, now, we were hoping to find any sort of investment out of that, but the Dragons have yet to collect enough in an angel fund to ...

Yeah, Stacy has some good points about that, but I’m going to let Amy go with what we do, and then give Stacy the floor for her position as a Taiwanese person as well.

They would be returning to Taiwan to help along the road of bilingualism, which is important, as I’m sure of yourself as being internationally educated as well. You don’t become bilingual until you immerse yourself in that bilingual country (雙語國家) – If I don’t live here, I wouldn’t have learned ...