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Following Chinese tradition at the start of the lunar new year, the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp kicked off with a lion dance to bring good fortune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYBrdqCMPDM

Day 1 of the most diverse seed accelerator batch in the world. We had people in the room from every continent except penguins. As we were waiting to begin, Hugh recorded the first of a series of video logs: https://youtu.be/SgR7CY-CSK4 With everyone in, we introduced ourselves. We answered questions like Why are we here? To…

Singapore’s a small country but a big city. Won’t you help Smoochy the Frog learn about all the interesting places in town? Here’s how! Each team gets a frog. Over the course of the JFDI bootcamp, take him with you and post photos of your team with him and with the target object. Use the…

The Frog Force (and Qryo – thanks guys!) spent Chinese New Year turning the office into The Jungle. Over the next 3 months, the JFDI startups will make this place their own. By the end of the 100 days, there will be an infinite number of toy frogs, a few posters from the oatmeal, the…

Starting 26th January 2012, fifty entrepreneurs from around the world are racing through 100 days to create 15 prototype digital businesses. This is the JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp 2012, the first Global Accelerator Network seed accelerator in South East Asia. https://youtu.be/EIbnFd1awVM

Our first class of startups are making their way to Singapore next week to participate in the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp. Starting on 26 January, the startups will race for 100 days to build not just product, but an investment-ready business. In May, investors will write cheques! Our startups were chosen from over 300 applicants and…

Originally posted on http://bootcamp.jfdi.asia on 3 December 2011 Dear JFDI.2012 Founders, You must be curious – who are you going to be working with? People like yourselves. Geeks, hackers, nerds, autodidacts, polymaths. The kind of people who can whip up something like Markdress in a morning. I’m a fan of Markdown, btw. If you don’t…

Maybe it’s cultural. Americans, particularly the children of the Self-Esteem Generation, are brought up to believe in themselves. Every red-blooded American child grows up believing that he (and she) can one day be President. Other cultures consider that attitude shamefully egotistical. Where’s the humility? Don’t you know your place? Who do you think you are?…

When JFDI recruits teams, we are more interested in the people than the idea. Ideas are free – we believe that at any given time, every possible startup idea, somewhere or other, is being tried by teams of varying levels of skill. Most of those ideas fail because it’s not the right time for that…