The Singapore chapter of the Founder Institute is launching its program for 2013 (apply here). It is slated to start on 28 May 2013. Founder Jeffrey Paine promises that this iteration will be “a lot more brutal,” while at the same time he expects “bigger and bolder ideas” to come forth.
The 14 week program, known for its rigor and high dropout rate, will see founders go through the process of creating a startup, finding a market, testing a business model, and pick up skills in marketing, sales and fundraising. Read more
Clubvivre lets users book private dining experiences with executive-level chefs.
Be less ambitious. That’s not a common advice you’ll hear from entrepreneurs, since an outsized ambition is the very thing that defines startups. Yet for EvenPanda, which if you recall, is an online activities marketplace that launched in Singapore last year, overambition was what killed it.
While ambition isn’t bad, it must be tempered by realism. As co-founders Maria Kuvshinova and her husband Andries De Vos explained, EvenPanda failed because it tried to do too much.
“We over-engineered our approach, worrying about building infrastructure for scale when we should have worried about our basic value proposition,” the founders wrote in a blog post. Read more
Mig33, a social entertainment platform company headquartered in Singapore, has welcomed a new executive director, serial entrepreneur Andy Zain. He joined mig33 in August. Read more
Founder Institute Singapore occassionally organizes meetups between startup founders and Mentors’ companies. For this series, they are visiting the offices of InMobi in Singapore, the World’s largest independent mobile advertising network.
The general outline of the session will be:
1. Introduction to InMobi
2. 101 of Mobile Advertising
3. Driving user/app growth & acquisition
4. Q&A
For startups who are looking to advertise on mobile ad networks to drive user acquisition for their own products & services, this is a talk you definitely need to attend. Speaker and newest mentor to Founder Institute Singapore Summer 2012: Phalgun Raju, General Manager, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong & Taiwan
Event Details
When: Thursday, 19 April 2012
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where: InMobi Pte Ltd (Singapore), Address:65 Chulia Street, #25-01/02/03 OCBC Centre, Singapore 049513 [map]
Register here.
Founder Institute Singapore is back for another run again.
To qualify, applicants must be passionate about building a technology company, regardless of whether they have started their enterprise.
The program supports a wide range of technology industries: Digital media, software, biotech, cleantech, ecommerce, advertising, consumer electronics, and more.
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Adeo (left) with Matt Marshall, founder of VentureBeat.
We managed to catch Adeo Ressi, CEO of The Founder Institute and CEO of TheFunded.com briefly at the sidelines of DEMO Asia 2012 to get his views on the startup scene here in Asia.
Quality of ideas the same?
Although Adeo expressed in earlier interviews that the quality of ideas, whether in Silicon Valley, or Europe, or Asia are the same, he thought that it is more “fine tuned” now as The Founder Institute is operating in 25 cities. Adeo feels that there are some differences in ideas in different markets but on the whole, it’s “more consistent than you would imagine”.
He also believes that some of the most innovative ideas are coming out of Paris and the highest rate of ideas being funded are in Berlin and in Singapore, the latter due to the active involvement of the government. Read more
From his blog: Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eighth start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating. Read more
The next semester of the Founder Institute entrepreneur training program is due to begin Oct 25. While most parts of the application and training process remain the same, one big change that affects female founders is the newly launched Female Founder Fellowship (FFF).
This Fellowship will only be given to the “the most extraordinary female applicant” in each of the Founder Institute’s local chapter and who will have her course fees subsidized. In Singapore, Singapore citizens and permanent residents have to pay a course fee of S$600 (US$492) while foreigners have to fork out the full amount of S$2000 (US$1,643). Read more
At least, that is Co-Working@dolphnSIX’s marketing spiel anyway. Neither are they as trendy as The Pigeonhole or FounderHQ. Rather, Co-Working@dolphnSIX offers a no-frills home office in Eastern Singapore with enough facilities to run your startup and get work done, if you don’t mind travelling to Joo Chiat Place. Read more
The Founder Institute is opening its doors to more applicants once again. To qualify, applicants must be passionate about building a technology company, regardless of whether they have started their enterprise.
The program supports a wide range of technology industries: Digital media, software, biotech, cleantech, ecommerce, advertising, consumer electronics, and more. Read more
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