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SINGAPORE, 17 November 2014 – Today, Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), Asia’s leading startup accelerator announces new initiative with Idea-Lab.kz to bring Kazakh startups into the global market through the “Kazakhstan Go Global” program. The five Kazakh teams started the program by completing the 21-day JFDI Discover program and are selected for a month-long acceleration program in…

14 November 2014, Singapore – JFDI.Asia and Innovation Norway are bringing six Norwegian teams to Singapore through a month-long acceleration program called TINC Asia. The program is designed to  give participants greater insight and familiarity with Asian business, culture, preferences and expectations, to enable faster growth into the region, with lesser risk. TINC Asia startups will be…

Venture capitalists and other investors scour the planet looking for startup diamonds hidden deep in mounds of gravel. Access to these investors is one of the main reasons startups join an accelerator program. JFDI’s Peter Browne describes how you can polish your startup business and shine at a pitching competition, demo day or in an…

Like many others, we’ve been watching How to Start a Startup in a small study group, following the videos every week as they come out. But we aren’t in Silicon Valley. We’re in Singapore, halfway across the world. Does Y Combinator’s weekly dose of concentrated startup advice, originally designed for a Stanford audience, make sense in…

How would you pitch the nicotine patch to a VC? There is a right way to do it! Customer: Somebody who smokes cigarettes. Market: There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world. Problem: Smoking is bad. Tobacco consumption is the single largest preventable cause of death in the world. Solution: The nicotine patch helps smokers…

SINGAPORE, 15 July 2014 — Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) today disclosed new data quantifying the impact of its startups on the business ecosystem in South East Asia. The data reveals that the first two years of JFDI’s accelerator operations yielded 21 active startups, raising in aggregate SGD9m (USD7.2m) in seed funding and now valued…

SINGAPORE, 14 July 2014 — Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) announced today that it had appointed the first in a new network of “Ambassadors” to support the growth of startup communities across Asia. The Ambassadors will connect JFDI more effectively with existing startup groups and events in Thailand, Malaysia, India and Philippines, building on what…

SINGAPORE, 7 JULY 2014 – Today, Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), Asia’s leading startup accelerator backed by Infocomm Investments (IIPL), the investment arm of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), presented its first-in-2014 cohort of 12 new startup teams to a strong showing of 150 local and global investors active in Singapore. Collectively, they manage…

SINGAPORE, 10 June 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) announced today that it is launching a 3 week technology incubator program called TINC Asia in partnership with Innovation Norway. The program will start with a 2 day briefing session in Oslo during August, followed by the main 3 week program in Singapore from 15 September to…

SINGAPORE, 2 June 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) launches a 21 day program this week called JFDI Discovery to help business startup founders take a deep dive into their market in a quest to achieve ‘problem-customer fit’. The program will run every month and teaches participants to apply the formal methods used with success in…