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In the third of their illuminating interviews with successful female entrepreneurs, hosts Graham Brown and Hugh Mason are joined by Hazel Savage, Founder of Musiio, an AI startup company that targets the music industry. In a light-hearted discussion they explore the similarities between setting up a rock band and a startup, Hazel’s experiences of working…

In the second of their three conversations with successful female entrepreneurs, hosts Graham Brown and Hugh Mason are joined by Karen Teoh, co-founder and COO of Kommerce. They discuss how Kommerce is using Blockchain technology to empower entrepreneurs in the world’s poorest nations and how the birth of Karen’s daughter inspired her to make a…

In this episode, the first of three interviews with successful female entrepreneurs, hosts Graham Brown and Hugh Mason are joined by Margaret Manning OBE—a UK Entrepreneur of the Year and a partner in Ernst and Young Digital ASEAN. Margaret shares her experiences running a digital services company in the early days of the internet and…

In this, the first episode of the JFDI podcast, hosts Graham Brown and Hugh Mason talk about the growing importance of entrepreneurship in Asia. This includes the growing acceptance of entrepreneurs in Asia and how the entrepreneurial spirit is increasingly become part of many young people’s identity. They also discuss how adversity often creates better…

Gurgaon based social hiring platform LetsCatchup, which graduated JFDI Accelerate in 2015, has announced its acquisition by US based tech-hiring marketplace GetLinks at an undisclosed price. The merger is in line with LetsCatchup’s strategy to take its platform to South East Asia and GetLinks to launch its services for tech talent in India. Launched in 2014, LetsCatchup was…

Shareboard co-founder Pawan Kumar wrote a blog about his experience at the JFDI 2014B Accelerate Program. He talked about Shareboard’s early days in India and what he learned from going through the JFDI Discover Program, then JFDI Accelerate and finally, Demo Day.    Pawan Kumar (co-founder, Shareboard) pitching at the JFDI Accelerate 2014B Demo Day Life At Accelerator Last summer 2014,…

Hot on the heels of JFDI’s first startup to raise Series A last week, this week sees another milestone: our first alumnus to exit. It seems like only yesterday that we snapped this picture, the day that JFDI gave Flocations its first round of funding, back in January 2012. Time flies … like a travel…

Like many others, we’ve been watching How to Start a Startup in a small study group, following the videos every week as they come out. But we aren’t in Silicon Valley. We’re in Singapore, halfway across the world. Does Y Combinator’s weekly dose of concentrated startup advice, originally designed for a Stanford audience, make sense in…

An old friend asked recently: “I have an idea. Can we chat? I want to know: is it original? is it viable?” After reviewing almost a thousand applications, the JFDI admissions committee has become hypersensitive to signs of domain expertise. Every batch there are certain popular ideas that multiple teams apply with. Each of those…

Originally posted on http://bootcamp.jfdi.asia on 3 December 2011 Dear JFDI.2012 Founders, You must be curious – who are you going to be working with? People like yourselves. Geeks, hackers, nerds, autodidacts, polymaths. The kind of people who can whip up something like Markdress in a morning. I’m a fan of Markdown, btw. If you don’t…