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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…

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed definitions of accelerators and incubators. Now, we’re going to talk about angel investors.  I used to imagine angel investors as wealthy men dressed in dark suits. Did you know that sometimes, friends and family could become angel investors too? With additions of my few insights, this article heavily cites Susan…

When JFDI’s lean coach Adrian Tan was invited to speak about Singapore’s startup scene this week, he was inspired by the number of local people who showed up to find out where they might fit in, especially as most don’t fit the stereotype of an internet entrepreneur, writes JFDI CEO Hugh Mason General Assembly is…

This is the second in the series of PR for startups posts by our guest contributor Kashmira Chawak. In the previous blog post, we looked at some of the best practices to engage with journalists and build long term relationships. After you’ve developed some relationships, it is equally important that you explore the right opportunities…

This week saw Singapore’s Digerati celebrated by the country’s Prime Minister just as a rising star from JFDI’s first batch closed a $6.5m series A round. We have reached the end of the beginning for the country’s startup scene, writes JFDI CEO Hugh Mason. The last time I met Facebook’s co-founder, nobody knew who he was. One…

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…

Adrian Tan used to spend his days teaching kids what he knows about technology and researching new cool things to tell them. Then came a milestone – fatherhood. It wasn’t enough for this former teacher to document special moments by taking pictures. Those photographs, increasing by dozens each week, were stagnating in his phone. He thought…

A simple search with keywords “qualities of successful entrepreneurs” will give you over 660,000 hits. There are more than enough self-help books and videos out there that endorse certain qualities of sucessful entrepreneurs. Society applauds passionate, singular, self-starting, forward-thinking, and confident risk-takers that entrepreneurs are. But sometimes, these qualities can backfire too. Here are some…

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…