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• The Frog Score

  What Do Investors Think of Your Startup? The Frog Score was designed for startups which are pre-revenue or pre-product. Most startups applying to accelerators are at the idea or prototype stage, with an incomplete team but great potential. This tool was designed for them but is now discontinued. Thanks for your interest.  

• Introducing … The Start-Up Frog Score

  The world of wine has Robert Parker. Consumer credit has the FICO score. Companies have Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. What do startups have? Maybe, one day, they’ll have the Frog Score. Yes, we’re standing on the shoulders of giants: YouNoodle tried this (and pivoted). The Startup Genome Compass offers another take. And we know...

• Accelerator applications open

  Singapore, 25 June 2013 — The Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) announced that, from today, it will accept rolling applications from ambitious early stage Internet businesses to its regular acceleration programs. Purely on the basis of merit, strong teams from anywhere in the world will be offered a place on the next available program. Teams...

• JFDI.Asia applies to its own accelerator program

  FDI.Asia’s year ends with over 250 applications for our bootcamp to sift through and more than 800 start-up founders waiting to hear the results. They all read 3,000+ words of notes and answered 36 questions and 115 submitted videos so we’re hugely impressed. Seeing that JFDI.Asia is itself a start-up, it seemed only fair that...

• Passing on the Baton from JFDI.Asia

  TL;DR: In the 6 years since JFDI started, the global startup ecosystem has evolved and accelerators including JFDI must evolve with it. Meng Wong has won a fellowship at Harvard Law School to spin out a new startup called Legalese from JFDI. Back in Singapore, JFDI has completed its last bootcamp and is now exploring...

• Singapore’s Startup Scene

  Hidayah Salamat is Associate Editor at I-S magazine in Singapore. She recently interviewed me for a feature on the island’s start-up scene but space limited the material she could publish in print. Here’s the full interview, writes Hugh Mason. Q: “Startup” has become quite a buzzword here. How would you define it? A: We see businesses...

• Crowdchat with the Crowd Sourcing Week community

  Crowsourcing Week is a blog that aims to leverage the power of crowdsourcing, with the laudable goal to “bring thought leaders from the space across all industries to share best practices in their respective fields”. So it was an honour to be asked to do my first crowdchat on twitter this evening, with the theme...

• Why this team? Why this idea? Why now?

  At Startup Weekends and pitches, some ideas keep coming around, like: social car/taxi sharing an emergency call button app on your phone for medical help / volunteers to aid old people something to schedule sports games with your friends. Despite competent execution they rarely go mainstream. Why? Here’s an example of a social sports scheduling...