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Day 26: JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason continues his video log of the JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp 2012. https://youtu.be/qJr6ZJGwcuQ

JFDI Mentor Christoph Zrenner will be speaking at e27’s Founders Drinks event at 6:30pm on 23 February at Shuffle Bistro Bar in Clarke Quay. Christoph co-founded Wildfire, an influencer word-of-mouth media company based in Shanghai. Wildfire received the Most Innovative Company Award 2011 in the Interactive Digital Media category from the Singapore Venture Capital Association…

Day 23: JFDI.Asia co-founders Hugh Mason and Meng Wong continue the video log of the JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp 2012. https://youtu.be/CYYGo5xJZXw

We were happy to welcome the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) and their foreign guests on Friday afternoon for a session on Digital Media Capital in Singapore . The session included presentations on startup and technology trends in Singapore from Arthur Fong, Project Director of the Interactive Digital Media Research & Development Programme Office (IDMPO) and…

Customer development has been a big topic in the Jungle with startups switching focus from ideation to product development & customer validation in the last two weeks. Some JFDI Startups have been taking advantage of Singapore’s location to do this, sending members to meet with customers face to face in other countries in the region,…

Day 22: JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason continues his video log of the JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp 2012. https://youtu.be/tjXRHjkH2Ew

Day 21: JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason continues his video log of the JFDI–Innov8 Bootcamp 2012. I mentioned the document we use to track startups’ progress week by week. Its main headings are: 1. Elevator Pitch This is a one-size fits all ‘Public Proposition’ for the business 2. Key assertions These are the key assertions that…

Join us for a talk on branding with JFDI Mentor Shauna Li Roolvink at 7pm next Tuesday 21 February at plug-in@blk71. Shauna is the Founder & Principal Consultant of BrandHub, a strategic brand consultancy focused on creating and building leading Asian brands. BrandHub has worked with a number of start-ups as well as established brands…

JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason continues his video log of the JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp 2012. Today we feature an interview with JFDI Mentor Rowan Simpson, who has been mentoring the JFDI startup since Day 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tz3pe2UU3Q

JFDI Mentor Rowan Simpson spoke to 75 founders yesterday at Startup Talks as part of the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp. He asked the audience to think of a startup as a chain and the following concepts as links in the chain. Need – Real Demand – Product – Manufacture – Distribution – Marketing – Behaviour For…