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Stories We Love: When Alumni Blogs Featuring Tim of Envoyrs

May 23, 2015 Community, For JFDI Startups, True Stories 0 comments

Envoyrs co-founder Tim Beiko blogged about his experience at the JFDI 2015A Accelerate Program. He shares a twist – how his team found a place to stay, which eventually turned out to be the batch’s ‘startup house’. For more of Tim’s story, read along.   HOME | AWAY | JFDI   And the first week in…

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Ask JFDI: Why Don’t You Sign NDA’s?

May 22, 2015 Community, For JFDI Startups, Insights, Wisdom 0 comments

Why don’t investors sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA’s)? This is one of the most frequently asked questions in our pre-accelerator program,JFDI Discover. So much so that it’s one of the biggest worries of our potential participants – one team even pulled out of the program because of it. This post addresses that question once and for…

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JFDI Doubles Startup Accelerator Investment & Heads for the Cloud

Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) today announced that applications are open for its next 100 day startup accelerator program to start in August. Teams accepted to enter the program will receive an immediate SGD50k (USD37k) commitment for a fixed 8.88% equity stake, double the investment that JFDI has previously offered, with the promise of an…

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JFDI Alumni Story: QLC.io (Quarter Life Crisis)

May 18, 2015 Community, For JFDI Startups, Interviews, True Stories 0 comments

JFDI Discover and Accelerate alumni QLC.io founders Will Fan and Fei Yao shares how they plan to solve quarter life crisis, writes Crystal Neri. Photo from JFDI’s 2014B Demo Day. “Being plugged into a community of people at different stages of the journey means that you can learn from both experienced founders or share frustrations with…

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Ask JFDI: What If Someone Steals My Idea?

What if someone steals my startup idea? This is the one of the most frequently asked questions in our pre-accelerator program, JFDI Discover.  We understand it’s only a natural thing to wonder. After all, when someone is on the brink of building something no one has ever done before, the tendency is to hide it until…

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Global Startup Youth ASEAN 2015 winners join JFDI Discover

May 15, 2015 Community 0 comments

StartupMalaysia.org and JFDI.Asia (JFDI) today announced that 8 ASEAN startup teams have begun the intensive JFDI Discover 21-day pre-accelerator program as part of their prize for winning the Global Startup Youth ASEAN 2015 (GSY ASEAN) event held last month in Kuala Lumpur. On completion of the pre-accelerator program and further work on the startups, StartupMalaysia.org…

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Stories We Love: Alumni Blog Featuring Madhu of Augment

May 8, 2015 Community, For JFDI Startups, Insights, True Stories 0 comments

JFDI Accelerate 2014A Alumni, Madhu GB (founder of Augment and GuitarStreet) blogs about his positive experience with theJFDI Accelerate Program. Here are the things we love – and can learn – from his story, writes Crystal Superal. It was just a regular day at the smoochy office when we noticed on a conversation on Twitter. From Kush…

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Discover Feature – Sociacad founder says to learn through frequent experimentation

May 5, 2015 Community, True Stories 0 comments

JFDI Discover is a 21-day pre-accelerator course that runs every month. Discover teaches founders how to apply and get results from powerful startup tools such as the Lean Canvas, Pirate Metrics and OKR (Objectives & Key Results). Shishir Choudhary, co-founder of Sociacad, shared his experience in the March Discover program with us. Tell us about your…

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JFDI Discover – Golf Primo lets Asia’s golfers book their golf tee online

Apr 28, 2015 Community, Interviews 0 comments

JFDI Discover is a 21-day online pre-accelerator program that runs every month. Discover teaches founders how to apply and get results from powerful startup tools such as the Lean Canvas, Pirate Metrics and OKR (Objectives & Key Results). Ellen Chan of Golf Primo, a Singapore-based startup, shares her experience in the April JFDI Discover program and what…

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Hardware startup Aquadevices shares founders’ lessons from JFDI Discover

Apr 22, 2015 Community, Interviews 2 comments

JFDI Discover is a 21-day online course that runs every month. Discover teaches founders how to apply and get results from powerful startup tools such as the Lean Canvas, Pirate Metrics and OKR (Objectives & Key Results).   Adam Eisenstadt and Anna An, based in South Korea, shares with us their experience in the March Discover program,…

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