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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCnyQ4kCxrc Singapore, 12 June 2013 —  Last week saw JFDI.Asia field seven new and two returning startups at a Demo Day which marked the end of its first seed accelerator program for 2013. Over 100 investor meetings were set up in the hour following the event and, this week, reaction from investors has flowed in…

This past Monday, 7 teams from the 2013A batch stood in front of close to 200 angel and institutional investors. In addition, there were 2 alumni teams from our 2012 batch that came back to pitch for Series A funding. In the audience sat Crystal Horse, Golden Gate Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Jungle Ventures, Vertex Ventures,…

http://youtu.be/r3D8souoWIY Last night he MC’d JFDI.Asia’s Demo Day … and now he’s leaving Singapore. From Yahoo to blinkBL-NK, Isaac’s inspired so many of us while he’s been on the island and he’ll be sorely missed. Wishing him well, JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason asked him to reflect on his five and a half years on the…

Singapore, Singapore — May 27, 2013 — Collabspot Pte Ltd today announced that it has reached agreement for veteran Google Enterprise Partner and Google Apps Reseller Laurent Gasser to join its board in an executive role as Director of Business Development. Mr Gasser will invest an initial S$100,000 in the business, reserving the option to…

Singapore, 23 May 2013 — JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd today announced the final line up of start-ups for the Demo Day of its first 2013 seed accelerator program. The presentation, sponsored by Global Brain Corporationof Japan, already has over 100 investors confirmed to attend including 500 Startups’ Geeks On A Plane. Startups pitching for seed funding…

http://youtu.be/IxgJJvZXjLU Lean Startup Methodology will get you nowhere without an AIM, JFDI.Asia’s Meng Wong tells Hugh Mason. Domain expertise gives you an AIM, then the lean METHOD can help you apply an INSIGHT to break through and do something new. Puke Alert – this video contains totally groovy motion stabilization artefacts

Yesterday I met with a group of entrepreneurs and held Startup Clinic workshop at HUBBA for the whole day. It was a crash course of JFDI’s 100 days. We had great time. I really enjoyed the topics of conversation, and shared some of the oft discussed ideas at JFDI.Asia, writes Ray Wu Want JFDI Startup…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDm91ovaEJc One of the strongest applicants to JFDI.Asia’s bootcamp that couldn’t join us this time around was Tate & Tonic (http://tatetonic.com), so when Singapore’s best-dressed serial entrepreneur and JFDI mentor John Tan walked in to Open House on Friday with a Tate & Tonic box, we couldn’t resist opening it. In Singapore’s fast-evolving e-commerce marketplace,…

I found myself driving the future this morning. Not today’s future, but the future I had imagined when I was a teenager. The passion that made me want to become an engineer came flooding back and I felt lifted up by the excitement of what a group of 100 or so startups around me are…

http://youtu.be/v8vq_1nBbrc Like JFDI.Asia, all electric transport company smove.sg is going through a transition from being a start-up to a growing company. CEO Tom Lokenvitz shares the challenges of changing culture, prioritzing what creates value and working out what’s relevant from an MBA to life as an entrepreneur.