Happy Chinese New Year!
To all our dear Chinese friends have a wonderful Chinese New Year filled with joy, happiness and lots of food!
SICA Immersion Program 2012 – Its a wrap!
On the 21st of January, founders of 4 teams from SI Camp Asia 2012 gathered in Singapore for a 2 week immersion program. During the 2 weeks founders were pushed, challenged, inspired and ultimately grew under the guidance of mentors from our mentor network.
Here are some key takeaways that each founder would like to share with all:
“Understanding why the Customers would turn to your solution is vital!” Izwan co-founder of ThatApp
“Work in this order: 90 second pitch > 10 page pitch deck > Business Model Canvass > Business Plan! Easy Peasy :)” Amy founder of Find Art.
“Refining, refining and refining the business model further but not to the point of perfection. The only way to find out if the business model would work is to get it tested in the market.” Joel co-founder of Blood Donors Network
“Know our target customer really well, build a relatively solid business model, then GO OUT AND DO IT! No matter how perfect the planning seems, the model almost always changes after its first contact with customers.” Caryn co-founder of Rare Genomics Asia
Thanks!
This program would not have been possible without the generous support and kind contribution from a host of different organisations and wonderful folks.
We would like thank our wonderful hosts at Hub Sg. If you are in SG and need a space to work check them out. Hub Sg is a super cool space filled with brillant and passionate people.
Next we would like to thank the following mentors and friends that provided guidance, knowledge and inpiration to the founders: Jayesh of Jungle Ventures, Elim of 77thStreet, Tim Kobe of 8inc, David of Eden Strategy Institute, Gerald of Inzen Studios, Justin of Ludochip, Marco of Accenture Interactive, Vinnie of GGV, Kenny of Oschool, Eric of e.three, Lars of PReciouscomms, James of Self Spark, Teddy & Phillip of IDEO, Shauna of Brand Hub, Kevin of AVPN, Larry of Makesense, Dave of Earth Hour, Douglas of Expara, Keith of Gametize, Yves of Business Model Generation, Andres and Jonas of Leo Tech, Isaac of Pollenizer, Sebastien of Ogilvy Health, Pamela of Bettr Barista and So-Young of Awaken Group.
Finally we also would like to thank our co-facilitators Eden Strategy Institute and Propell Group.
