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Hsinchu

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Chiayi City

Yuanlin

Nangang District

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Pingtung City

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Taiwan

Plurk is a social network with a heavy focus on game mechanics, short messaging and emoticons. It's real time, interactive and addictive (average time spend/day is 2 hours per active users).

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Plurk startup from Taipei City, Taiwan is ranked 557 out of 103920 worldwide and 2 from the 1027 startups in Taiwan. See more information and additional rankings on the StartupBlink Global Ecosystem Map

As the innovation hub of the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan is renowned for its outstanding high-tech R&D capacity, highly-trained professionals, and thriving networks of entrepreneurs which enable our  startup ecosystem to achieve steady continuous growth.

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In the recent years, Moscow has become a gravity centre for the most talented people not only from Russia and Eastern Europe, but from all over the world. Such concentration of professionals affirms Moscow as one of the global “cities of the future”, world centre for the development of breakthrough technologies, particularly in IT.

The Moscow Agency of Innovations was established to create a truly favorable environment for the advancement of technology in Moscow.

2016

The Skolkovo Innovation Center and Skolkovo Foundation was signed into law with a goal to goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.

2010

Avito, a classified ads website and now a unicorn, first went online.

2007

The Moscow Seed Fund, a VC which invests in see and pre-seed startups, was established.

2005

Yandex search engine was launched!!!!

1997

Hsinchu Science Park is built

1980

The Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs begins implementing incubation policy

Taiwan entrepreneur visa program is established

2015

Gold Card program and Taiwan Tech Arena is established

2018

Taiwan’s Gogora and Appier are recognised as unicorns

2019

Appier becomes the first Taiwanese startup to exit at a USD 1b+ valuation

2021

With a rich history and diverse mix of culture, the Russian capital offers an interesting lifestyle to many. The population of over [12 million people](https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/moscow-population) is still growing and is attesting to the city’s attractiveness and its power to develop.

  

Without further adieu, here are 4 reasons why Moscow is a great city to live in:

   
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1.  **Rich Culture**

  

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If you are a creative soul, this city is for you. In Moscow, the distinctive Russian architecture is at it’s finest as the city is home to a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As the leading centre of the European creative industrie, Moscow has over 450 museums. Every year Moscow hosts thousands of events: festivals, exhibitions, concerts, such as the Moscow International Film Festival and the Circle of Light Festival. [Since 2011, the city strategy](http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/cities/moscow) has shifted towards modernization in the cultural policy which prompted the culture sector to grow their performance.

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2.  **Low Cost of living**

According to Numbeo’S Quality of Life Index, the cost of living in Moscow is significantly lower than other European capitals. Although Moscow may be more expensive than other Russian cities, the city can be up to 61% more affordable than London according to [Expatistan](https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/moscow).

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3.  Transportation
    


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Infrastructure in Moscow is under fast and continuous development with significant growth in road length every year. The city’s metro infrastructure is also impressive as the route length is the 5th largest in the world with 241 stations as of 2021.

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4.  **Sustainability**
    

Moscow shows real progress in this sector as well making real efforts to reduce the ownership of private cars and to transform the face of the city into one that is more walkable. The shift towards [pedestrian friendly urbanism](https://www.planetizen.com/node/88156/moscows-erratic-shift-towards-walkable-city) has made the city not only more sustainable [but also safer and more convenient](https://www.govtech.com/fs/moscow-makes-over-its-streets-with-people-in-mind.html). The [PwC report](https://www.pwc.ru/en/publications/collection/quality-of-living.pdf) ranked Moscow as top of the list among 11 global megacities when it comes to green planted areas per capita.

  
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5.  **Exciting Startup science and tech industry**
    

As a startup founder, Moscow is a great city to consider. The city has made real progress in recent years to move up the ranks in the global smart cities

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