Taiwanese value sits inside products shipped from a dozen countries — and trade statistics cannot see it.
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Taiwan Company Stories
Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Taiwan Company Stories from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
- 55 guides
- 11 subtopics
- Updated Aug 25, 2026
Taiwan Semiconductors & Foundry 5
Taiwan Startups & Innovation 5
Taiwan Founders & Dynasties 5
Taiwan Machinery, Bicycles & Precision 5
Taiwan Food, Retail & Consumer 5
Taiwan Petrochemicals & Heavy Industry 5
Taiwan Banking & Finance 5
Taiwan Displays, Optics & Components 5
Taiwan PC, Devices & Global Brands 5
Taiwan Electronics Manufacturing & ODM 5
Taiwan Global Expansion & Trade 5
Latest in Taiwan Company Stories
Chip Geopolitics: When Manufacturing Became Statecraft
No industry became an instrument of statecraft as quickly — and Taiwan sits at the centre of it.
New Southbound: Diversification by Policy and by Force
A policy of diversification that market forces eventually made compulsory.
TSMC Abroad: What Subsidies Can and Cannot Buy
Everyone wants their own fab — and the ecosystem, not the building, is what makes one work.
The Cross-Strait Supply Chain: Built, Then Unwound
Thirty years of integration built by Taiwanese factories, now partially and expensively reversing.
Perfect Corp: Consumer Scale as an Enterprise Sales Tool
Hundreds of millions of app users as proof and data — and an enterprise licensing business behind them.
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KKday and Pinkoi: Building the Hard Side of the Marketplace
Marketplaces look like demand problems and are almost always supply problems.
91APP: Helping Brands Escape the Marketplace
Every brand on a marketplace eventually wants its own channel — and a local software company built the tools.
Appier: Taiwan’s Software Exception
An AI company from a hardware economy — and why it listed a thousand miles from home.
Gogoro: The Network Before the Customer
Six-second battery swaps, thousands of stations, and the brutal economics of building infrastructure before revenue.
Cher Wang: Building in Industries Her Father Never Saw
Inherited industrial wealth deployed into technologies the previous generation would not have recognized.
Stan Shih: The Framework That Outgrew the Company
A better strategist than operator — and the ideas that reorganized an entire industrial economy.
