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Timmy De Jesus today is doing exactly what she wants: filling a role that combines technology, management, and entrepreneurship altogether. As JFDI Asia’s Philippine country manager, the petite, smiley-faced, 26-year old Cebuana stands in the company’s expanding community, writes Crystal Neri   “I got into the world of frog via Startup Weekend Cebu,” says Timmy. “We…

Adrian Tan used to spend his days teaching kids what he knows about technology and researching new cool things to tell them. Then came a milestone – fatherhood. It wasn’t enough for this former teacher to document special moments by taking pictures. Those photographs, increasing by dozens each week, were stagnating in his phone. He thought…

Many first time founders may experience bouts of depression during the developmental stages of their businesses – otherwise known as founder’s depression. There is a lot at stake when starting a new business – an uncertain road with the potential for a lot of pitfalls – relying on trial and error for success. These concerns…

Everyday, Kai Huang opens his laptops and digs through dozens of queries and operational tasks as JDFI’s Program Manager. The 34-year old Taiwanese born Singaporean uses the metaphor coach to describe his work. “I handle JFDI’s Discover and Accelerate Program,” he says. JFDI.Asia is a Singapore-based accelerator that nurtures, curates and supports venture fundable startups….

A simple search with keywords “qualities of successful entrepreneurs” will give you over 660,000 hits. There are more than enough self-help books and videos out there that endorse certain qualities of sucessful entrepreneurs. Society applauds passionate, singular, self-starting, forward-thinking, and confident risk-takers that entrepreneurs are. But sometimes, these qualities can backfire too. Here are some…

Out of every 95 startups, only five succeed. Meng, our JFDI Chairman and Social Engineer, covered this phenomenon in our webinar “Funding With The Frogs.“ The startup world is full of high-energy, intelligent, hacker-type personalities. All of these traits, if fuelled by an idea, result in seemingly unstoppable missions. But not so fast. According to Meng, here are five…

For startup founders, here are some fundamental differences between Asia and the United States, by Crystal Neri It’s easy to assume that just because a startup worked in America, it would work in Asia too. Why wouldn’t it? Don’t we all need assistants? If so, why did the TaskRabbit clones in Singapore fail? Before you decide to…

We spoke to Richard Moh, co-founder of CatJira (formerly Rebaem.com) – the digital content marketplace to find, hire and collaborate with social media creators. The team took part in the February Discover program and share what they learnt in the 21 days. CatJira helps social media content creators to discover paid sponsorship opportunities.”Our secret sauce to this is…

This is the first in a series of PR for Startups posts by our guest contributor, Kashmira Chawak . Getting PR for your startup is one of the best ways to get yourself out there and increase your customer base, but how to do it has baffled many startup founders. You may know how to build…

In a recent talk in Australia, JFDI’s Strategic Partnerships Manager, Alena Arens, shared about “How To Get Into A Top Accelerator” with the local startup community. Here are her slides from the talk.