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June 28, 2012 by Terence LEE
We’ve just been told that Flocations, a Singapore travel discovery startup, is now powering budget airline AirAsia’s new app on Google Chrome.
Flocations is essentially a web service that lets users search for plane tickets by price. They can also set the desired destination and duration of their trip. Read more
May 7, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Recently, I did a talk at JFDI, a Y-combinator-quality incubator for South East Asia, where I shared how it is like to be an entrepreneur.
A lot of people tend to think: Being entrepreneur is about having a $1B+ home run in the first try. But it’s almost never the case. The best way to describe the life would be through an analogy of playing poker.
Why poker? Well, it is one of those few card games, where you are not playing against a bank/dealer, but rather amongst the players themselves. Winning a hand is not just a matter of having the best card, but also how you play the hand (since having the best card may not necessarily lead to a win). Read more
May 7, 2012 by SGE
The Bootcamp is a technology startup accelerator program in Singapore (part of the Global Accelerator Network) where participants build a prototype within 100 days. Demo Day was on 4th May, 2012.
May 7, 2012 by SGE
The Bootcamp is a technology startup accelerator program in Singapore (part of the Global Accelerator Network) where participants build a prototype within 100 days. Demo Day was on 4th May, 2012.
Edgar Hardless, CEO of SingTel Innov8
May 7, 2012 by SGE
Video pitches taken from JFDI.Asia’s YouTube channel.
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May 4, 2012 by Terence LEE
Watching each startup deliver their pitch at the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day, I get the sense of witnessing a child taking her first tentative steps or going to school for the very first time.
At the accelerator program, the first of its kind in Singapore, promising entrepreneurs, who had nothing but ideas, had to undergo an intense regimen of mentoring, training, and product development.
Mentors in the bootcamp came from all around the world as well as from Singapore, consisting of entrepreneurs who have gone through the whole agonizing process of creating a product people actually want.
Glancing across the room, amidst the glaring stage lights and about a hundred curious investors, those very same mentors are egging the startups on stage to succeed. The incubatees took turns to demostrate their products: Refined, refreshed, and in some cases, completely rehashed after the 100-day bootcamp. Read more
May 4, 2012 by Joyce HUANG
While technology has enabled us to capture thousands of photos and upload them onto various social networks, they haven’t quite help us to make sense of these memories yet.
At least, that’s what one of the JFDI Bootcamp startups, Gradeful, had to share with us.
According to the team, social networks on mobile such as Path, Instagram and Facebook don’t cater well to families’ needs. The lack of privacy, fragmentation across devices and networks and a general sense of “okay, so I’ve taken a picture of my family, what’s next?” are some of the key pain points that parents face.
Que Remember, Gradeful’s mobile app that’s useful for families when it comes to curating memories. It acts as a scrapbook for all the moments you’ve recorded on your smartphone and helps you to create new memories by suggesting interesting, new activities to try together as a family. Once that’s done, you have a choice to upload them onto your Facebook timeline as a digital photo book and celebrate these memories with your loved ones. Read more
May 4, 2012 by Sharon Lourdes Paul
As a student bitten by the wanderlust bug, Flocations sure calls out to me. It is a travel discovery app that aims to help visitors discover new places based on a predetermined budget.
Throughout the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp, the Singapore-based team had been iterating their product, with much focus on improving its user experience. They overhauled their entire site last month. Here is a round up of three key features they have:
May 4, 2012 by Terence LEE
One was a dad who has not seen his son for 11 years. Another man wanted his father to see him for one last time before he goes blind.
The video, which went viral with over one million views, was one of the most touching things I’ve seen — right up there with the footages of US marines reuniting with their loved ones.
Which was why I understood FamilyKo immediately. The startup (formerly called HobbyMash) is currently developing a web and mobile app that enables parents to read story books, play games, and engage in other activities with their children.
And here’s the interesting bit: One of the co-founders, Mark Co, tells me that they’ve managed to connect with the OFWs featured in the video and even got them to try out the app. Read more
May 3, 2012 by Sharon Lourdes Paul
Having presented at last year’s Launchpad at Echelon, FetchFans is a familiar name in Singapore’s startup scene. The team has progressed since then, and found themselves amidst the jungle in the JDFI Bootcamp this year.
FetchFans has a single purpose: To fetch fans for franchises worldwide. It achieves this with a SaaS solution that delivers scalable brand control for the franchises.
According to founder and managing director Carmen Benitez, brand franchises are in desperate need to use social media. Within that context, they have two concerns: Read more
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