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Adrian Tan used to spend his days teaching kids what he knows about technology and researching new cool things to tell them. Then came a milestone – fatherhood. It wasn’t enough for this former teacher to document special moments by taking pictures. Those photographs, increasing by dozens each week, were stagnating in his phone. He thought…

We spoke to Richard Moh, co-founder of CatJira (formerly Rebaem.com) – the digital content marketplace to find, hire and collaborate with social media creators. The team took part in the February Discover program and share what they learnt in the 21 days. CatJira helps social media content creators to discover paid sponsorship opportunities.”Our secret sauce to this is…

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, 1905 Ideas are free. Execution is everything. And you can save yourself a lot of trouble by Googling your idea before you start,writes Meng Wong. The slideshow http://www.slideshare.net/mengwong/20110413-founder-institute accompanies this blog post; this material was put together for a talk at Founder…

It was inspiring to catch up with Singapore-based entrepreneur Bernard Leong at hackerspace earlier today. With his business partner Saumil Nanavati he’s launched Chlkboard, a mobile promotions service that’s particularly easy to use for small retailers. e27 has the full story. What makes that story highly relevant to JFDI is that Bernard and Saumil turned…

There’s an old saying: Ask for advice, you get money. Ask for money, you get advice. The team at Cooliris actually found this to be true. Rather than relying on a single pitch meeting, the founding team met regularly with a variety of companies to determine how their tech could enhance the Internet landscape. Product…