How Startups Grow Up – with Tom Lokenvitz

Like JFDI.Asia, all electric transport company smove.sg is going through a transition from being a start-up to a growing company. CEO Tom Lokenvitz shares the challenges of changing culture, prioritzing what creates value and working out what’s relevant from an MBA to life as an entrepreneur.

Practising a Pitch … The Peter Browne Way

It’s day 49 at the JFDI.Asia 2013A bootcamp and the start-up teams are beginning training with Peter Browne, former actor and now founder of Intangible Productions. Peter teaches start-up teams how to feel relaxed and confident in front of an audience and how to deliver their pitch for maximum impact.

JFDI.Asia alumnus Tribehired closes S$696,000 seed investment

Investor Picture2JFDI.Asia Alumnus Tribehired.com, a social recruitment website, today announced that it had closed a S$696K (US$560K) seed funding round led by TNF Ventures (TNF) through the Technology Incubation Scheme under the National Research Foundation (NRF) within the Singapore Prime Minister’s Office. The round was supported by Singapore-based angel investors Ben Ball and Ben Chew.

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