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(Part 3 of the Founder Briefing Series)   Statistically speaking, most people are extremely unlikely to build a successful business. Most people don’t grow their own food or sew their own clothes. Most people don’t pay their own salary; they get a big company to do that for them, as with food and clothes. It’s…

(Part 5 of the Founder Briefing Series) Let’s begin with the end in mind.   The Goal is a Successful Business It may sound strange after all this business talk, but our ultimate duty is to society. Everything we do is in service of the customer – in aggregate, “the market”. Your business offers its…

(Part 2 of the Founder Briefing Series) The bootcamp involves a number of agreements between you, your co-founders, and JFDI. The first of these agreements is called the Founders Agreement. This agreement is a contract between you, your co-founders, and JFDI. If you want to attend the bootcamp, you must sign this contract. In this…

(Part 6 of the Founder Briefing Series)   If– this is your first startup, and you know a lot about some technical or industry domain, and an innovation has you in its grip and just won’t let you go, but when it comes to starting a business, you know that you don’t know what you…

(Part 4 of the Founder Briefing Series) On Demo Day, you show a business, not just a product. The JFDI bootcamp is 100 days of preparation for Demo Day. The investors who come to Demo Day might nod politely when you talk about the features of your product. But they’ll sit up when you talk…

(Part 1 of the Founder Briefing Series)   Questions, Questions, Questions … Founders considering JFDI have lots of questions. This post outlines the rest of the series by listing all the questions that we answer. We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams…   Theoria: Why JFDI? JFDI believes that innovation…

Hundreds of applicants apply to JFDI’s accelerator bootcamp. They ask similar questions: What is JFDI looking for? What happens during the bootcamp? Will our business get funded? How will JFDI help? How much money does JFDI invest? What percentage of the company do we give up? Who are the mentors that we will work with?…

I introduced two friends last night over skype and the meeting didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. It made me realize how different startup cultures are right for different situations, says JDFI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason JFDI.Asia’s next 100 day accelerator program starts August and pre-registration is open now.

It’s easy to imagine that the day your startup gets funded is the end of something … but in truth it’s much more a new beginning. JFDI.Asia startup cofounder Nishanth Sudharsanam is hoping that’s the situation his team will soon be in … meanwhile he’s well aware of the challenges that lie ahead, he tells…

The Global Accelerator Network (GAN) today announced that it will bring together accelerators and their key partners across the Asia Pacific region. The event will be hosted by JFDI.Asia in Singapore on Friday 26 July 2013. Attendance will be free of charge and by invitation only. The APAC Accelerator Meetup will offer the region’s accelerators…