Videos: What investors and mentors think of JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp Demo Day (2)
The Bootcamp is a technology startup accelerator program in Singapore (part of the Global Accelerator Network) where participants build a prototype within 100 days. Demo Day was on 4th May, 2012....
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Why entrepreneurship is like playing Poker
Recently, I did a talk at JFDI, a Y-combinator-quality incubator for South East Asia, where I shared how it is like to be an entrepreneur. A lot of people tend to think: Being entrepreneur is about...
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Flocations, ShopSpot get investment offers from SingTel Innov8, says fund’s...
Flocations and ShopSpot, two of the incubatee startups at the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp, have received investment offers from SingTel Innov8, the telco company’s investment arm. While ShopSpot has...
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Flocations powers AirAsia’s new Chrome app
We’ve just been told that Flocations, a Singapore travel discovery startup, is now powering budget airline AirAsia’s new app on Google Chrome. Flocations is essentially a web service that lets users...
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StartupGrind Hosts Meng Wong, Co-Founder and Social Engineer at JFDI.asia
This month, StartupGrind, an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs, welcomes Meng Wong, a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, co-founder and...
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TradeGecko, a cloud sales and inventory management tool, hopes to empower DIY...
Fashion labels, like tech startups, have a valley of death. Once sales picks up, designers will have the unpleasant task of managing an ever burgeoning inventory and customer database. It saps their...
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JFDI mulls ‘JFDI Score’, says it will accept second round of applicants to...
Singapore-based startup accelerator JFDI will be accepting applicants into the second iteration of its program soon, it said in a blog post today. It concluded its inaugural 100-day JFDI-Innov8...
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JFDI.Asia
Company JFDI.Asia aims to build an innovation ecosystem that sustains itself, in Asia, for Asia. Together with the rest of the startup community, it strives to turn local founders into investors within...
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JFDI.Asia teams up with Golden Gate Ventures, reveals more details about...
Update: Applications for JFDI.Asia Bootcamp, held from 14 February to May 2013, are now open. Deadline is 14 December. The frog is croaking again. After months of relative peace, where they were...
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In 2012, startup accelerators rise in Asia, but venture funding yet to catch up
JFDI.Asia held its first bootcamp in Asia. The question remains whether it and Asia's other startup accelerators can keep the momentum going. Asia has become a much friendlier place to do a startup....
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JFDI.Asia unveils 8 teams for first Bootcamp in 2013; each gets USD 20K...
JFDI.Asia, Singapore’s most prominent startup accelerator, has announced the eight startups that will join its first bootcamp, which will start on 21 February. The teams will receive a SGD 25K (USD...
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JFDI.Asia launches Joyful Frog, an innovation campus to nurture elite...
Block 71 has become Singapore’s Cowork Central. The old industrial building, which is experiencing new life as a tech startup hub, is also playing host to a bunch of coworking spaces that cater to the...
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Malaysian social recruiting startup Tribehired closes USD 560K round led by...
TribeHired, a social recruitment website started by a team from Malaysia, announced that it has closed SGD 696K (USD 560K) in early stage funding led by TNF Ventures through the Singapore government’s...
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JFDI.Asia versus Y Combinator: Batch One compared
Following JFDI.Asia alum TribeHired’s USD 560,000 funding round, the Singapore-based startup accelerator released some facts about the state of its first batch of companies. While JFDI’s efforts at...
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Governments should clear the decks and let entrepreneurs drive their own...
By Hugh Mason co-founder and CEO of JFDI.Asia, a Singapore-based startup accelerator. JFDI is a member of the Global Accelerator Network. Over the last ten years I have worked with something like 35...
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UserScout’s Ariff Munshi reflects on rebranding and pivot, and lessons learnt...
Startups are like chameleons. For survival’s sake, these shifty animals can rapidly change their appearances in response to threats. So it is with startups. Unlike large corporations, startups don’t...
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Seed accelerator JFDI.Asia presents its 7 graduates from batch two, 2013A
You could almost taste the anticipation in the air. Hundreds of people had flown into Singapore for a week of the gathering of the top startup and investor minds in Southeast Asia for a slew of events...
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Changing gears from engineer to entrepreneur
By Meng Weng Wong, social engineer and co-founder at JFDI.Asia, a Singapore-based startup accelerator. A version of this article was first published here. Statistically speaking, most people are...
View ArticleJFDI.Asia’s second accelerator program getting more responses
The first confirmed incubatee is Vault Dragon – a Dropbox of sorts for physical storage. Over 300 digital startup teams have applied. The post JFDI.Asia’s second accelerator program getting more...
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Singapore accelerator JFDI.Asia unveils diverse crop of startups for next...
Singapore startup accelerator JFDI.Asia has announced the next crop of startups that will undergo its three-month bootcamp, which will start this Thursday. The teams were selected out of a field of 321...
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