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When JFDI’s lean coach Adrian Tan was invited to speak about Singapore’s startup scene this week, he was inspired by the number of local people who showed up to find out where they might fit in, especially as most don’t fit the stereotype of an internet entrepreneur, writes JFDI CEO Hugh Mason General Assembly is…

Hot on the heels of JFDI’s first startup to raise Series A last week, this week sees another milestone: our first alumnus to exit. It seems like only yesterday that we snapped this picture, the day that JFDI gave Flocations its first round of funding, back in January 2012. Time flies … like a travel…

JFDI Discover is a 21-day online pre-accelerator program that runs every month. Discover teaches founders how to apply and get results from powerful startup tools such as the Lean Canvas, Pirate Metrics and OKR (Objectives & Key Results). Ellen Chan of Golf Primo, a Singapore-based startup, shares her experience in the April JFDI Discover program and what…

This is the second in the series of PR for startups posts by our guest contributor Kashmira Chawak. In the previous blog post, we looked at some of the best practices to engage with journalists and build long term relationships. After you’ve developed some relationships, it is equally important that you explore the right opportunities…

This week saw Singapore’s Digerati celebrated by the country’s Prime Minister just as a rising star from JFDI’s first batch closed a $6.5m series A round. We have reached the end of the beginning for the country’s startup scene, writes JFDI CEO Hugh Mason. The last time I met Facebook’s co-founder, nobody knew who he was. One…

JFDI Discover is a 21-day online course that runs every month. Discover teaches founders how to apply and get results from powerful startup tools such as the Lean Canvas, Pirate Metrics and OKR (Objectives & Key Results).   Adam Eisenstadt and Anna An, based in South Korea, shares with us their experience in the March Discover program,…

I’m going to provide a quick overview of what to consider before quitting your job to pursue an idea, by Adrian Tan Adrian teaches hundreds of startup founders in JFDI’s Discover programme   Recently, I shared my story on why my startup failed and what I learnt from it. It appears that many resonated with the article and…

Singapore, 20 April 2015—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd) today revealed details of the 12 Singapore-based startup businesses joining its sixth 100-day accelerator program. The latest cohort are all Business-to-Consumer (B2C) companies whose customer insights will inform JFDI’s focus on the urban middle class of Asia. The new teams come from countries as diverse…

The Seed Accelerator Rankings Project released their 2015 list of the Top 20 Startup Accelerators based in the US.  A few days after the release, the research team’s co-director, Susan Lee Cohen, tweeted a link to this MIT Press Journal paper. Entitled: ‘What Accelerators Do? Insights From Incubators and Angels,’ I found it to be an…

JFDI.Asia operates the longest-running, most successful seed accelerator program in South East Asia. We are now looking for innovative startup teams to join us for our next flagship 100-day Accelerate program beginning in late June or early July 2015. Teams accepted into the JFDI 2015B Accelerate Program will receive up to S$25k worth in seed funding,…