Business Clinics with Neoteny Investor and Entrepreneur Sean Bonner will be available during the month of June, subject to selection by the man himself! Apply or find out more about Sean and JFDI’s business clinics.
Why meet Sean?
Sean Bonner and other like-minded investor-entrepreneurs are always looking to meet cool people doing new, fun and interesting things with technology. Having started his own companies, he has gone through the cycles of starting up, selling, funding, running the company, investing in other companies… the list goes on. The great thing about successful entrepreneurs is their willingness to share their experience with others, to be involved in the community. Meeting with Sean will give you the opportunity to learn from his unique experiences as an entrepreneur and give him a feel for your ideas brewing on this little red dot, Singapore.
What can I expect from a Business Clinic?
Each business clinic, whether you come as an individual or company of 2-3 people, will run for a period of 1 hour. During this clinic, you should feel free to discuss your business idea/plan/model and you may want to come prepared with questions for Sean. This is not a formal review, rather it is a casual discussion around your business and may throw up some amazing ideas or directions which you never thought about!
As part of the programme, Sean may want to continue to work with you or your company to develop your idea, or he may put you in touch with someone he believes you would benefit from talking to. It may be that your idea is so well planned and executed that all you need is time and money, not advice. We can’t promise the same result for everyone but we can promise that the clinic will be positive for both you and Sean.
What does it cost you ask?
With the support of the MDA, this programme is absolutely free. To participate, tell us more about yourself, your ideas and your expectations here. Your form will be forwarded to Sean, who will personally select the companies he would like to meet. JFDI will be in touch to arrange the appointment with you.
For further enquiries on the programme, just drop us an email at info@jfdi.asia. See you soon!
The JFDI Team
Profile on Sean Bonner
Sean Bonner has been involved with media, online and off, for the better part of the last 16 years. He has been featured in GOOD, Wired, Playboy, Salon, Forbes and others, been included in Yahoo!’s Best of the Web, and has spoken at conferences, events, and coffee shops around the world. As co-founder and CEO of Bode Media Inc, Sean helped create Metblogs, the worlds largest network of local media blogs.
As a consultant, he has helped The Groop, Jack In The Box, LAPD, Suicide Girls, Obey Giant, Shopzilla and others interact with their customers, clients, and fans online. He also speaks frequently at conferences covering blogs, media, networks and grassroots journalism. Recently he’s spoken at IzeaFest (Orlando, FL), SXSWi (Austin, TX), Roboexotica (Vienna, Austria) and Re:Publica (Berlin, Germany).
Sean is well connected to the startup scene in Asia as one of the guys behind Neoteny Labs, a venture fund and incubator which opened its doors in Q1 2010. Neoteny Labs aims to find and grow some of the most interesting technology startups in Asia and the Middle East. It is one of seven technology incubators chosen to participate in the S$50 million National Research Foundation (NRF) Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS).
As an event organizer, Sean brought Neoteny Singapore Camp 1 (NSC1) to Singapore which brought together a fascinating mix of entrepreneurs and investors, sharing possibilities over a 2 day event. Check this out for an interesting discussion around startups from that event. He also brought BarCamp to Los Angeles, produced the first art exhibition comprised solely of phonecam images, ran art auctions and benefits for the West Memphis Three. Sean has also been a guest blogger/contributor for BoingBoingVideo and hosted the iPhone game review show iPhun.
He is one of the founders of Crash Space, a Los Angeles hackerspace and is the creative director for the brand R5315T. Prior to all this, Sean helped build the groundbreaking contemporary art gallery sixspace exhibiting artists such as Glen E. Friedman, Shepard Fairey, Coop, Chad Robertson and others. He also ran a record label and produced several records by Hot Water Music and Less Than Jake to name a few. He’s also managed a design firm, worked as Sr. Designer for Playboy.com and Creative Director for Victory Records.
Comments on Sean Bonner
“Sean Bonner is a pioneer of social software, Internet memes and online publishing. In addition to being an excellent and highly sought-after speaker, he is quickly becoming known as one of the celebrated icons of the modern Internet subculture – his mere presence attracting huge crowds of fans. I for one am a true believer.”
– Joi Ito, Managing Director, Neoteny Labs and CEO, Creative Commons
Links and Articles:
www.seanbonner.com
www.linkedin.com/in/seanbonner
www.neotenylabs.com
www.metblogs.com
www.bnet.com/2422-13721_23-179782.html
www.good.is/post/neighborhood_watch/