The Founder Institute in Singapore has accepted over 30 applicants, and there are just a half dozen spots remaining in the program. The final application deadline is Sunday, March 14th, so take a moment to apply here.
The Singapore program has attracted top local and global mentors, including
- Adeo Ressi, CEO, TheFunded.com
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 eight start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating. - Bob Rosin
Bob has built two companies from scratch and raised over $117M in venture capital from Sequoia, Atlas, Azure, Paladin, AsiaTech, Motorola, Wasserstein, Marc Andreessen, Nicholas Negroponte, Ron Conway, and other investors. Bob was previously SVP Sales and Marketing, OQO, developer of the first pocketable PC, and brought the company from zero to over $25M in annual revenue. Previously, Bob was Founder and President of Bang Networks, a pioneer in realtime messaging on the public Internet. Previously, Bob worked at Sony Corp. in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, where he incubated Navio (now Liberate Technologies) and led Sony's involvement with WebTV Networks, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft). Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he won the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship, and received his BA from Cornell University Magna Cum Laude with three majors. Bob received Red Herring Top 100 for two companies, is first author on 9 granted US patents, has a Black Belt in Aikido, is fluent in Japanese, and is an avid underwater photographer. - Jeff Stewart, Founder & CEO, Urgent Career
Jeff Stewart is Founder & CEO of Urgent Career, a company that is revolutionizing the way companies screen and assess sales talent. Jeff is also the Founder and Chairman of Mimeo.com, the largest service to print, bind and deliver documents directly from your computer. Jeff is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, having founded over a half dozen companies in his career, which combined to employ over 600 people. - Michael Diamant, CEO, Skip Hop
Michael Diamant is CEO of Skip Hop, founded in 2003 by him and his wife, Ellen. As new parents living in New York City, they were surprised by how few products resonated with the urban lifestyle they were used to. Michael, a veteran Internet entrepreneur, saw an opportunity to move into a new type of business, creating products and a brand that spoke to parents just like themselves. - Philip Kaplan, Cofounder, Blippy
Philip Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Blippy. Formerly he was founder and CEO of AdBrite, and creator of F-edcompany.com. Philip is the best-selling author of F’d Companies (Simon & Schuster). Blippy is backed by Charles River Ventures and Sequoia Capital. AdBrite is backed by Sequoia Capital and is the largest privately-held ad network. - Ron Wiener, Chief Mechanic, Venture Mechanics, LLC
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor; currently Chief Mechanics at incubator Venture Mechanics, LLC in Seattle. Founder and CEO of five investor-backed companies including Earth Class Mail, SnapNames.com, PrintBid.com, Distribution Sciences Corp and Azure Technology. Have incubated more than a dozen startups since 1998. Starred on Startup Junkies TV show for its first season (see it on hulu or itunes). - Will Bunker, Cofounder of One-and-Only (became Match.com)
Will Bunker is the co-founder of the online dating service that became Match.com, the world’s largest personals site. In 1996 Will and a partner raised $90,000 from angel investors to start online personals pioneer One-and-Only.com. In late 1999 they sold Dallas-based One-and-Only for $45 million to Ticketmaster Online/City Search, where it was rebranded Match.com. Following his exit, Will acquired Click Patrol, a service that managed key word advertising for Overture and others, which he sold to a competitor in 2002. He then moved back to his native Arkansas and acquired an industrial catfish farming operation, which he expanded into a more efficient and profitable business. In 2004 he and Dan Owen formed White Space Ventures. In 2007 he relocated to Portola Valley, CA so he could utilize the infrastructure and talent pool in the Bay Area to develop a new student-centric online learning community, YoYoBrain.com.
