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317 digital business startup teams applied before today’s deadline for our second accelerator program this year. The program is scheduled to start on 29 August and the first confirmed participating team is Vault Dragon, led by Singapore locals Tseng Ching-Tse and Vishesh Mittal. They will be joined on the 100 day ideas-to-investment program by 10-12…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDUWtd3H88 When a young Christopher Columbus set out to raise a stash of cash to go sail the ocean blue, the challenges he faced fundraising were remarkably similar to today’s tech venturers, Meng Wong tells Hugh Mason Applications to the next JFDI.Asia Accelerator program close 31 July! Apply now

(Part 3 of the Founder Briefing Series)   Statistically speaking, most people are extremely unlikely to build a successful business. Most people don’t grow their own food or sew their own clothes. Most people don’t pay their own salary; they get a big company to do that for them, as with food and clothes. It’s…

(Part 5 of the Founder Briefing Series) Let’s begin with the end in mind.   The Goal is a Successful Business It may sound strange after all this business talk, but our ultimate duty is to society. Everything we do is in service of the customer – in aggregate, “the market”. Your business offers its…

(Part 2 of the Founder Briefing Series) The bootcamp involves a number of agreements between you, your co-founders, and JFDI. The first of these agreements is called the Founders Agreement. This agreement is a contract between you, your co-founders, and JFDI. If you want to attend the bootcamp, you must sign this contract. In this…

(Part 6 of the Founder Briefing Series)   If– this is your first startup, and you know a lot about some technical or industry domain, and an innovation has you in its grip and just won’t let you go, but when it comes to starting a business, you know that you don’t know what you…

(Part 4 of the Founder Briefing Series) On Demo Day, you show a business, not just a product. The JFDI bootcamp is 100 days of preparation for Demo Day. The investors who come to Demo Day might nod politely when you talk about the features of your product. But they’ll sit up when you talk…

(Part 1 of the Founder Briefing Series)   Questions, Questions, Questions … Founders considering JFDI have lots of questions. This post outlines the rest of the series by listing all the questions that we answer. We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams…   Theoria: Why JFDI? JFDI believes that innovation…

Hundreds of applicants apply to JFDI’s accelerator bootcamp. They ask similar questions: What is JFDI looking for? What happens during the bootcamp? Will our business get funded? How will JFDI help? How much money does JFDI invest? What percentage of the company do we give up? Who are the mentors that we will work with?…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMFGa3lwwtM Startups have just a week or so left to apply to JFDI.Asia’s next accelerator program starting in August. Assuming, of course, that they know it’s happening … Lacking resources to splurge on traditional advertising, smaller organizations including JFDI.Asia have to make their own audience and pull people into the funnel that eventually leads to…