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One of the rites-of-passage for any new entrepreneur is being interviewed for the first time by a journalist. It can feel daunting, in terms of how you present yourself to look confident, and what to say. Making the most of the opportunity often comes down to how you frame your story, writes Hugh Mason. I…

https://youtu.be/5RJFclhf2FM Instagram’s Kevin Systrom famously said: Finding the right problem to solve is the hardest part So how do you do it? Sometimes it takes a big pivot. In 2010, Kei Kubo raised money from investors to found a hosting company in San Francisco. But coming home to Japan, the archaic nature of Japan’s online…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnl5j24FF50 Beijing, China— A stone in a dumpling inspired serial entrepreneur Alex Farfurnik to build a business the lean way in 8 hours, before “Lean Startup” had a name. Getting out of the building in 2006 led to Alex and his team creating the hugely successful XiBao, the AdWords for merchants on China’s version of…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ymNetZ15I Shanghai/Singapore- based Wildfire.asia hit the jackpot when it changed its product offering just a few weeks ago. Culture-change, costs and stress levels shot up with the great sales figures. So how to cope with rapid growth? In the second of two video logs, Founder Christoph Zrenner talks with JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-knDOoE1Uw A big froggy hello to Sharon Ho, who joins JFDI.Asia today as Sista Barista @ the Minimum Viable Cafe. It’s Singapore’s first entrepreneur salon to be developed using Lean Startup Methodology. Come by and let our business stylists give your lean canvas a makeover, or put a permanent wave in your cognitive frame 🙂…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTpcUEZdWso Wildfire.asia went through the slog of three pivots until, finally, the company found the formula to achieve market fit. A small change ten weeks ago has opened the floodgates to customers … It was all down to positioning, founder Christoph Zrenner tells JFDI.Asia’s CEO Hugh Mason, in the first of two video logs.

We’re adding two new frogs to the family! If you haven’t come across Nathan and Ray, the two of them have taken the term “digital nomad” to heart, and are at serious risk of re-defining the words as they take on the role of roving ambassadors for JFDI.Asia. Over the coming months, Nathan and Ray…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kJ1loytq78 Read any tech blog and you could get the impression that pumping up a business for investment and growing shareholder value is the only way to go. Screw all that, says Allan Simonsen, it’s all about the lifestyle. Here’s how he and co-founder Christopher Natsuume chose a different path for their successful casual gaming…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPCmEAGOHXk Start-ups need to get publicity – so how to attract the interest of bloggers, readers and viewers at home? In the minimum viable prototype for the JFDI.AsiaIncubation Club, Hugh Mason chats with the founder of Flocations.com – Tudor Coman

The Startup Stack does for starting a business what Heroku does for starting a cloud app. JFDI invites startup founders to apply with ideas for building the startup stack. This is one of a series of JFDI’s Requests for Startup. If this is the first you’ve read, you might like some context first. Problem: It’s…