One of the strongest applicants to JFDI.Asia’s bootcamp that couldn’t join us this time around was Tate & Tonic (http://tatetonic.com), so when Singapore’s best-dressed serial entrepreneur and JFDI mentor John Tan walked in to Open House on Friday with a Tate & Tonic box, we couldn’t resist opening it. In Singapore’s fast-evolving e-commerce marketplace, the Tate & Tonic promise to guys is “Looking Good, Made Easy” – so is there hope for Collabspot.com counder Jeremi Joslin and sartorially-challenged CEO Hugh Mason?

I found myself driving the future this morning. Not today’s future, but the future I had imagined when I was a teenager. The passion that made me want to become an engineer came flooding back and I felt lifted up by the excitement of what a group of 100 or so startups around me are trying to do.

Politics is the same as it was 3,000 years ago. Artists still struggle to express the human condition. But technology changes things and opens up new possibilities. JFDI.Asia is based in Singapore’s future factory at Block 71, Ayer Rajah Crescent and I am now old enough to admit without shame that I love being part of it, writes Hugh Mason.

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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 Accelerating Asia’s Innovation Ecosystem. Apologies in advance to anyone who participated for any misattribution of wisdom in the summary that follows and many thanks to all for your questions and insights, writes Hugh Mason.

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