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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzh11C-d4PA It’s day 49 at the JFDI.Asia 2013A bootcamp and the start-up teams are beginning training with Peter Browne, former actor and now founder of Intangible Productions. Peter teaches start-up teams how to feel relaxed and confident in front of an audience and how to deliver their pitch for maximum impact.

JFDI.Asia Alumnus Tribehired.com, a social recruitment website, today announced that it had closed a S$696K (US$560K) seed funding round led by TNF Ventures (TNF) through the Technology Incubation Scheme under the National Research Foundation (NRF) within the Singapore Prime Minister’s Office. The round was supported by Singapore-based angel investors Ben Ball and Ben Chew. The…

Today, after months of construction work, we finally launch the Joyful Frog, our 4,800sq ft innovation campus at Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent! Founders, funders, freelancers, and friends of innovative business are very welcome to join as members and residents. Seasoned entrepreneurs get a home-from-home to meet, work, and relax alongside first-timers, international mentors and…

One year after he brought his startup Tradegecko to JFDI.Asia, co-founder and CEO Cameron Priest is back on the program, this time as a mentor.  Armed with seed funding and hard-won experience, Priest shares the insights he wished he’d known when he was starting up with JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason. His three tips? Get a landing…

Crowsourcing Week is a blog that aims to leverage the power of crowdsourcing, with the laudable goal to “bring thought leaders from the space across all industries to share best practices in their respective fields”. So it was an honour to be asked to do my first crowdchat on twitter this evening, with the theme…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRoRa-seUhI Getting the technology of a new innovation right is only part of the challenge. Before customers will by, they need to understand and value the benefits it brings. Companies selling green and clean technologies often have a tough time selling as the benefits take a long time to realize and early adopters can be…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHM0L5Jx08 Ray Gillenwater left a high-powered role at RIM to set up TheSpark.org: a platform for social activists to help create change. The lessons social entrepreneurs are learning about linking ordinary people could unlock some radical new C-C business models, Ray tells Hugh Mason

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjNHSzcVYvQ JFDI.Asia mentor Kevin Dewalt lives in Beijing and watched fund-raising China-style as well as on the East and West Coasts of the US. The story that sells in each location depends on the underlying attitude of investors and it’s as much to do with emotion as logic, he tells Hugh Mason. You can follow…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVC–G2Hs6Y Frog Vlog Day 5: Dropmyemail.com is a 705,000 user Singapore start-up success story … but it’s hit a chicken and egg situation trying to close series A funding. Founder John Fearon came by JFDI.Asia earlier in the day and talked with Hugh Mason. John’s top tip for local start-ups? Think ahead to where the…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioT_riqqBeI Take a video tour around the Joyful Frog Incuabation Campus with mentor Justin Wilcox