For JFDI Startups

I’m going to provide a quick overview of what to consider before quitting your job to pursue an idea, by Adrian Tan Adrian teaches hundreds of startup founders in JFDI’s Discover programme   Recently, I shared my story on why my startup failed and what I learnt from it. It appears that many resonated with the article and…

The Seed Accelerator Rankings Project released their 2015 list of the Top 20 Startup Accelerators based in the US.  A few days after the release, the research team’s co-director, Susan Lee Cohen, tweeted a link to this MIT Press Journal paper. Entitled: ‘What Accelerators Do? Insights From Incubators and Angels,’ I found it to be an…

Out of every 95 startups, only five succeed. Meng, our JFDI Chairman and Social Engineer, covered this phenomenon in our webinar “Funding With The Frogs.“ The startup world is full of high-energy, intelligent, hacker-type personalities. All of these traits, if fuelled by an idea, result in seemingly unstoppable missions. But not so fast. According to Meng, here are five…

In a recent talk in Australia, JFDI’s Strategic Partnerships Manager, Alena Arens, shared about “How To Get Into A Top Accelerator” with the local startup community. Here are her slides from the talk.  

Lim Kuo-Yi spoke with our founders about consultative selling today. In an early stage startup environment, what the founders needed to find, was the fit between their products and their customers’ visions. Having won major contracts and signed on IBM as an system integrator for a USD $15mn governmental project, Kuo-Yi broke down his approach…

Common sense Smitty is both technical and goal driven. He’s an all-star products person. At today’s mentoring session, he kicked off with a talk to helped JFDI teams focus on two things: 1) create an emotional connection with customers, and 2) make hard decisions early on. Be funny Most startups were battling the online noise…

  Know your customers Scott Bales stopped by JFDI to talk to the teams about Persona Development. His talk was by far one of the best I had seen on this topic—simple and loaded with anecdotal war stories. It was great to hear him explain persona to the founders. Persona Development made sense, and sometimes…

Singapore’s a small country but a big city. Won’t you help Smoochy the Frog learn about all the interesting places in town? Here’s how! Each team gets a frog. Over the course of the JFDI bootcamp, take him with you and post photos of your team with him and with the target object. Use the…