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Congratulations on a successful SingTel Startup Weekend Singapore!
Wow! 200 people showed up on Friday night for the sold out event! It was a weekend of late nights filled with coding, practice pitching and sustained thanks to a plethora of coffee, fantastic mentors including CTO of SingTel Idea Factory Lee Lup Yuen, and some precious laughter and Angry Bird Toys to keep everyone’s…
Read More »SingTel Startup Weekend: Day 3
Final Pitches Thirty teams are pitching tonight. Follow the action on Twitter, #swsg3. It is truly amazing how much work these teams have done in just one weekend. Thanks to SingTel’s 100mbps link, we’re streaming video to livestream.com/jfdi. The teams are: Funded by the Mob: a crowdfunding platform. Radd.me: replace your business cards with this…
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SingTel Startup Weekend Day 2
Coding Sprint Saturday morning. At least one person didn’t sleep – I should’ve given him decaf when I was handing out espresso shots last night. Oops. Pictures are uploaded: Flickr, Facebook. Agile methods are much in evidence: scrum boards, quick iterations, pair programming, customer development. A number of teams have gone and enlisted alpha and…
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SingTel Startup Weekend Singapore Begins!
The Event has Started! 6pm: ZOMG, there are 232 people registered. That is about twice as many as the SW Organizer’s Guide recommends. It is going to be a madhouse. 7pm: Over 200 people have actually turned up here at Blk71, a collaborative workspace dedicated to the high-tech start-up community in Singapore, co-hosted by MDA,…
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Top team from Startup Weekend Manila will receive invite to JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp
The frog team will be at Startup Weekend Manila on 21-23 October looking for the next great startup idea. Globe, in partnership with Philippine-based web engineering firm Proudcloud, will be launching Startup Weekend Manila, a 54-hour event where developers, designers, marketers, technopreneurs, and venture capitalists come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and…
Read More »SingTel Startup Weekend Singapore winner will be guaranteed a place on the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp
It’s been an intense few days since we launched our partnership with Singtel Innov8 on Monday and, at last, we can confirm some more details. The most significant of which is that the winning team of the SingTel Startup Weekend Singapore will fast-track our normal selection process and be guaranteed a place on the JFDI–Innov8…
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