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SINGAPORE—JFDI.Asia today announced that applications are open for the first of two business acceleration programs it plans to run during 2013. JFDI.Asia operates the longest-running, most successful seed accelerator program in South East Asia, taking teams of digital start-up entrepreneurs from idea to investment in 100 days, with greater than 60% success raising an average S$650,000…

SINGAPORE— Golden Gate Ventures and JFDI.Asia today announced a new strategic alliance that could offer early-stage digital start-up companies a seamless transition from idea to substantial pre-series A funding. Key to that journey is intensive mentoring that accelerates the journey to market traction. With immediate effect, Golden Gate Ventures co-founders Vinnie Lauria, Jeff Paine and…

Problem: I’m proud of my library. It’s an outward sign of my erudition and an opportunity for visitors to get to know me better. But I’ve switched to e-readers and stopped buying physical books. Now my friends don’t know what I read. Or even that I read! Solution: A family of product and services that…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_WqXKO8MMU Junghee Ryo founded Olaworks in 2006, two years before Face.com & Google Goggles caught on with similar Computer Vision technology. In April 2012, Olaworks was acquired by Intel and continues to operate under its own brand. It was an extraordinary journey, building on Junghee’s ten-year experience including two previous companies. On the way to…

Its my final day here in Thailand, I’ve got to say goodbye to my friends in Bangkok and hello to Jakarta/Bandung. Huge virtual hug and thanks to the Thailand community, and in particular the Hubba and Ardent Capital crews. You guys have invited such amazing friendship and camaraderie over the past 5 weeks.   I…

Moonshi Mohsenruddin didn’t call it Lean Startup or Customer Discovery, but at the age of 16 he found out that talking with customers and then changing the way he packaged up T-shirts on a market stall near Singapore’s famous Lau Pa Sat hawker centre would more than double what people were happy to pay. That…

Seoul, Korea— Both TaeWoo Kim’s company Moglue, and Jaeuk Park & Edward Lee’s company VCNC have recognized the value of international expansion if they are to grow, looking to Japan as their first foreign market. But, they tell JFDI.Asia’s Ray Wu, while Japan and Korea may look similar to outsiders, the two cultures have many…

Alongside our community and the investment we put into our bootcamp startups, teaching is important for JFDI.Asia too. Our growing relationship with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a two-way exchange of ideas: the fresh way that undergraduate students interpret methods like Lean Startup makes us think again about issues like what actually…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kyKPbXjlk Singapore— Rolling out new technologies like mobile money or NFC needs many stakeholders to make changes before they reach critical mass. As he heads out in the Frogmobile with Sista Barista to do in-depth café research, JFDI.Asia investor James Kao shares his experience of using Square with Meng Wong and Hugh Mason. Meanwhile, Ong…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsYK4FdN3s On a day when the Minimum Viable Cafe signs up the first members of JFDI.Asia’s Incubation Club, our regular friday night open house event saw Thomas Gorissen demonstrate a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 and Rosaline Chow share her experience building online businesses in Singapore, contrasting dotcom 1.0 with her new venture today. Later ……