Business Clinics With Sean Bonner
June 3, 2010 by SGEntrepreneurs
Filed under Events
Neoteny Investor and Entrepreneur, will be heading down to Singapore to conduct business clinics for local entrepreneurs.
The aim of the clinic is to allow participants to engage in casual discussions with Sean around their business idea/plan/model.
The clinic is organized by JFDI and is fully sponsored by MDA therefore participation is absolutely free. Click here to stand a chance to be handpicked by Sean to meet him!
About Sean
Sean Bonner has been involved with media, online and off, for the better part of the last 16 years.
He has been featured in GOOD, Wired, Playboy, Salon, Forbes and others, been included in Yahoo!’s Best of the Web, and has spoken at conferences, events, and coffee shops around the world. As co-founder and CEO of Bode Media Inc, Sean helped create Metblogs, the
worlds largest network of local media blogs.
As a consultant, he has helped The Groop, Jack In The Box, LAPD, Suicide Girls, Obey Giant, Shopzilla and others interact with their customers, clients, and fans online.
He also speaks frequently at conferences covering blogs, media, networks and grassroots journalism. Recently he’s spoken at IzeaFest (Orlando, FL), SXSWi (Austin, TX), Roboexotica (Vienna, Austria) and Re:Publica (Berlin, Germany).
Sean is well connected to the startup scene in Asia as one of the guys behind Neoteny Labs, a venture fund and incubator which opened its doors in Q1 2010. Neoteny Labs aims to find and grow some of the most interesting technology startups in Asia and the Middle East. It is one of seven technology incubators chosen to participate in the S$50 million National Research Foundation (NRF) Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS).
As an event organizer, Sean brought Neoteny Singapore Camp 1 (NSC1) to Singapore which brought together a fascinating mix of entrepreneurs and investors, sharing possibilities over a 2 day event. Check this out for an interesting discussion around startups from that event.
He also brought BarCamp to Los Angeles, produced the first art exhibition comprised solely of phonecam images, ran art auctions and benefits for the West Memphis Three. Sean has also been a guest blogger/contributor for BoingBoingVideo and hosted the iPhone game review show iPhun.
He is one of the founders of Crash Space, a Los Angeles hackerspace and is the creative director for the brand R5315T. Prior to all this, Sean helped build the groundbreaking contemporary art gallery sixspace exhibiting artists such as Glen E. Friedman, Shepard Fairey, Coop, Chad Robertson and others.
He also ran a record label and produced several records by Hot Water Music and Less Than Jake to name a few. He’s also managed a design firm, worked as Sr. Designer for Playboy.com and Creative Director for Victory Records.
How to score a chance to engage Sean Bonner
To participate, tell event organizers JFDI more about yourself, your ideas and your expectations here. Your form will be forwarded to Sean, who will personally select the companies he would like to meet. JFDI, will be in touch to arrange the appointment with you.
What participants can expect out of the clinic
Each business clinic, whether you come as an individual or company of 2-3 people, will run for a period of 1 hour. During this clinic, participants are free to discuss their business idea/plan/model. Also, they will be able to use the time to ask Sean relevant questions with regards to their business.
Furthermore, as part of the programme, Sean may want to continue to work with the participants to develop your idea, or he may put you in touch with someone he believes you would benefit from talking to.
Event details
The clinics will be conducted over the following dates:
Thursday – Friday 10 – 11th June 2010
Thursday – Friday 17 – 18th June 2010
Duration: 1 hour for each team
JFDI will contact successful applicants to make further arrangements
Please click here for more info
Or, if you have more enquiries on the programme, please email them to JFDI: info@jfdi.asia
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