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The JFDI.Asia Frog family has grown! Here’s our staff at full strength now. Meng Wong Social Engineer Hugh Mason Chief Executive Frog Ong Chiah Li Partner Fannie Kue General Manager Nie San Lim Venue Manager Lucy Ng Administrator Victoria Au Inbound Inspiradorix Alena Arens Strategic Partnerships Manager Adrian Tan Lean Startup Coach Chi-Kai Huang Lean…

A great list of ‘Be-wares’ – dead ends for startups to avoid – captured from the eloquent Ben Joffe: Funware (fun but no market) Easyware (anyone can make it) Sameware (similar to existing products) Solutionware (amazing technology that hasn’t yet found a problem it’s good at solving) Vaporware (can’t be made) Lameware (good intentions but…

SEOUL, SINGAPORE, 22 May 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) and the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs (Banks Foundation) today announced a strategic partnership to boost the skills of first-time entrepreneurs across language and cultural barriers and to help established startup companies from Korea and Singapore expand beyond their home markets across the Asia Pacific region….

SINGAPORE, 16 April, 2014 — JFDI.Asia, Asia’s #1 Startup Business Accelerator, announced today that it will launch the first in a series of practical demonstrations and discussions around the most disruptive technologies of our time jointly with Singapore startup Coinpip.com. The essence of each Date with Disruption event will be a practical demonstration and an…

SINGAPORE, 25 March 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd) today revealed details of the 13 new Singapore-based startup teams joining its next 100-day accelerator program this month. Each will receive a SGD 25,000 (USD 19,650) cash investment plus a package of intense mentoring and valuable support services worth SGD 150,000 (118,000). The program which…

SINGAPORE, 18 March 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd) today announced that it had secured firm capital commitments totalling SGD 2.7 million (USD 2.1 million) from an international consortium of investors. Anchored by Singapore’s Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), the investment round is supported by two funds, SpinUp Partners Ltd (Russia) and Fenox Venture…

SINGAPORE, 10 March 2014 – Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), the investment arm of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), today announced a strategic partnership with leading startup accelerator, Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), to run accelerator programmes for innovation driven tech product startups based in Singapore. This partnership seeks to build a strong pipeline…

CYBERJAYA, 13 February 2014 – Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) today announced a pilot program to help local ICT startups break through barriers to growth. The program, called MSC Malaysia Startup Accelerator Lite, will be delivered by local partners around Malaysia and facilitated by JFDI.Asia, Asia’s number 1 startup business accelerator program. MSC Malaysia Startup Accelerator…

A couple of weeks ago, JFDI startup Klinify hit the headlines across the world when it closed a USD600k funding round for its business. Securing that coverage, then coping with the influx of queries that resulted took three months of planning, co-founder Krish tells JFDI CEO Hugh Mason. JFDI.Asia’s Chief Frog Hugh Mason talks to Krish of…

Since freelance brokering services like Odesk set up, the processes they use to ensure quality have got more and more rigorous. JFDI startup Flocations has managed to keep its core headcount low while making effective use of freelance workers: CEO Tudor Coman shares his top tips for making that work with JFDI’s Hugh Mason. https://youtu.be/xYLBreIkLgo…