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Great energy here in Mint College in Taguig City, Manila where 250+ developers, designers, entrepreneurs and ideas gathered this weekend for Manila’s first ever Startup Weekend in the Philippines.   60 ideas were pitched Friday night. It was interesting to see some similar ideas to ones pitched at SWSG3 including a Startup Weekend online concept….

Wow! 200 people showed up on Friday night for the sold out event! It was a weekend of late nights filled with coding, practice pitching and sustained thanks to a plethora of coffee, fantastic mentors including CTO of SingTel Idea Factory Lee Lup Yuen, and some precious laughter and Angry Bird Toys to keep everyone’s…

Final Pitches Thirty teams are pitching tonight. Follow the action on Twitter, #swsg3. It is truly amazing how much work these teams have done in just one weekend. Thanks to SingTel’s 100mbps link, we’re streaming video to livestream.com/jfdi. The teams are: Funded by the Mob: a crowdfunding platform. Radd.me: replace your business cards with this…

Coding Sprint Saturday morning. At least one person didn’t sleep – I should’ve given him decaf when I was handing out espresso shots last night. Oops. Pictures are uploaded: Flickr, Facebook. Agile methods are much in evidence: scrum boards, quick iterations, pair programming, customer development. A number of teams have gone and enlisted alpha and…

The Event has Started! 6pm: ZOMG, there are 232 people registered. That is about twice as many as the SW Organizer’s Guide recommends. It is going to be a madhouse. 7pm: Over 200 people have actually turned up here at Blk71, a collaborative workspace dedicated to the high-tech start-up community in Singapore, co-hosted by MDA,…

UPDATE 20111023: Barcamp has been rescheduled, so there is no longer a conflict with SWBKK! We’ll have information up on SWBKK soon- stay tuned for details. We’ve been asked about the timing of this event … It’s on the same date as Barcamp Bangkok! Yes, it is most unfortunate that two great events are happening…

The frog team will be at Startup Weekend Manila on 21-23 October looking for the next great startup idea. Globe, in partnership with Philippine-based web engineering firm Proudcloud, will be launching Startup Weekend Manila, a 54-hour event where developers, designers, marketers, technopreneurs, and venture capitalists come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and…

It’s been an intense few days since we launched our partnership with Singtel Innov8 on Monday and, at last, we can confirm some more details. The most significant of which is that the winning team of the SingTel Startup Weekend Singapore will fast-track our normal selection process and be guaranteed a place on the JFDI–Innov8…

Programme will help entrepreneurs secure the mentoring and funds they need to launch successful digital businesses SingTel Innov8 will provide resources, industry insights and access to regional markets JFDI is partnering SingTel Innov8, the corporate venture arm of the SingTel Group, to create a new start-up accelerator programme in the Asia Pacific Region. JFDI, a…

A great piece in the Financial Times this week by Jonathan Moules on the psychology of business angels. He points out that some come from heaven and some from hell. Here are some of the nightmares to look out for: Shark angels. This investor’s sole intention is to take advantage of a business founder’s lack…