Frog Vlog

Like JFDI.Asia, all electric transport company smove.sg is going through a transition from being a start-up to a growing company. CEO Tom Lokenvitz shares the challenges of changing culture, prioritzing what creates value and working out what’s relevant from an MBA to life as an entrepreneur.

It’s day 49 at the JFDI.Asia 2013A bootcamp and the start-up teams are beginning training with Peter Browne, former actor and now founder of Intangible Productions. Peter teaches start-up teams how to feel relaxed and confident in front of an audience and how to deliver their pitch for maximum impact.

One year after he brought his startup Tradegecko to JFDI.Asia, co-founder and CEO Cameron Priest is back on the program, this time as a mentor.  Armed with seed funding and hard-won experience, Priest shares the insights he wished he’d known when he was starting up with JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason. His three tips? Get a landing…

Take a video tour around the Joyful Frog Incuabation Campus with mentor Justin Wilcox

JFDI.Asia’s new purpose built space is nearing completion: Sista Barista Sharon is ready with the coffee. Among her first guests is Singapore’s successful serial entrepreneur Hian Goh, who talks to Hugh Mason about the Series A crunch, raising money in Silicon Valley versus Singapore and start-up strategies for roll-out across Asia.

On a day when the Minimum Viable Cafe signs up the first members of JFDI.Asia’s Incubation Club, our regular friday night open house event saw Thomas Gorissen demonstrate a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 and Rosaline Chow share her experience building online businesses in Singapore, contrasting dotcom 1.0 with her new venture today. Later … one…

Shanghai/Singapore- based Wildfire.asia hit the jackpot when it changed its product offering just a few weeks ago. Culture-change, costs and stress levels shot up with the great sales figures. So how to cope with rapid growth? In the second of two video logs, Founder Christoph Zrenner talks with JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason.

A big froggy hello to Sharon Ho, who joins JFDI.Asia today as Sista Barista @ the Minimum Viable Cafe. It’s Singapore’s first entrepreneur salon to be developed using Lean Startup Methodology. Come by and let our business stylists give your lean canvas a makeover, or put a permanent wave in your cognitive frame 🙂 Please…

Wildfire.asia went through the slog of three pivots until, finally, the company found the formula to achieve market fit. A small change ten weeks ago has opened the floodgates to customers … It was all down to positioning, founder Christoph Zrenner tells JFDI.Asia’s CEO Hugh Mason, in the first of two video logs.

Read any tech blog and you could get the impression that pumping up a business for investment and growing shareholder value is the only way to go. Screw all that, says Allan Simonsen, it’s all about the lifestyle. Here’s how he and co-founder Christopher Natsuume chose a different path for their successful casual gaming company…