What Social Entrepreneurs can teach for-profit start-ups: Ray Gillenwater @TheSparkDotOrg

Ray Gillenwater left a high-powered role at RIM to set up TheSpark.org: a platform for social activists to help create change. The lessons social entrepreneurs are learning about linking ordinary people could unlock some radical new C-C business models, Ray tells Hugh Mason

Kevin Dewalt: raising funds in Beijing versus US E/W Coast

JFDI.Asia mentor Kevin Dewalt lives in Beijing and watched fund-raising China-style as well as on the East and West Coasts of the US. The story that sells in each location depends on the underlying attitude of investors and it’s as much to do with emotion as logic, he tells Hugh Mason.

You can follow Kevin on twitter @kevindewalt

Dropmyemail’s John Fearon: “We’ve fallen into Singapore’s Series A hole”

Frog Vlog Day 5: Dropmyemail.com is a 705,000 user Singapore start-up success story … but it’s hit a chicken and egg situation trying to close series A funding. Founder John Fearon came by JFDI.Asia earlier in the day and talked with Hugh Mason.

John’s top tip for local start-ups? Think ahead to where the follow-on funding is going to come from.