On startups, growth, fundraising and more.

A common question we get is: “Which is more important: strong traction or a strong story?” But what is strong traction and a strong story — and why are they important?

From raising money to getting investors to talk to them to making negotiations.

From services for the middle class to the search for acquisition channels, here are major trends ready for innovation in Southeast Asia

Copying ideas from other markets: the good, the bad and the how

In this episode of The Iterative Podcast, Hsu Ken and Brian talk about why hiring is important, why most founders get it wrong, what hiring is like as your startup grows, what to qualities and roles to hire for and more. This is Part 1 of 3 episodes on recruiting.

An obvious but overlooked difference between founders and investors is, founders are concerned with how to make their startup successful, and investors are concerned with how to tell if someone else’s startup will be successful. I find that thinking of each startup as a line, is a helpful mental model for assessing whether they will be successful.

Computer vision startups need a lot of data to be successful in the long run. However, I've talked a to few startups trying to go from zero data to one billion datapoints instead of taking the first steps from zero to a hundred pieces of labeled data.

This is part 3 of a 3 part series on how to build a recruiting machine. This last part will wrap up the series with how to think through compensation and negotiations to close candidates as well as onboard them effectively.

As the government pours more money into deep tech startups, it'll be more challenging for deep tech startups to rise above the rest. In this article we'll provide 4 essential tips to make any deep tech startup pitch more attractive to investors.

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on how to build a recruiting machine. It covers the motivations for why it's important to get really good at hiring plus writing your first job description, this part will address specific tactics on sourcing and interview loops, and part 3 will dig into how to close your candidates.

We asked our founders from the Summer 2022 batch: "What's the most surprising thing about being a founder?" Here's what they had to say.

Eric Dadoun is the co-founder of DeZy, a crypto-enabled high yield savings platform that simplifies decentralised finance.

David Marquez is the CTO of Shipmates, a courier platform that connects online stores to different couriers.

Adrien Jorge is the Founder and CEO of Propseller, a tech-powered real estate agency offering the most reliable way to successfully and efficiently sell, buy or rent a property.

Yolanda Lee is the Co-Founder of Uncommon (Iterative Winter 2022), a Singapore-based private network for female leaders. Uncommon redefines professional development for female leaders through a powerful and trusted network of peers, group coaching, tailored masterclasses, 1:1 connections virtually and in person.

Alvin Ea is the Co-Founder of Haulio (Iterative Summer 2020), a Singapore-based container haulage platform, with the greater vision of connecting global trade to local first-mile transportation across ASEAN.

Liyen Tan is the Co-Founder of Hawkr (Iterative Summer 2021), a Malaysia-based food delivery marketplace for homemade food that is looking to reduce barriers to entry for anyone passionate about making a living through cooking and/or baking.

Charles Lee is the Co-Founder of Coderschool (Iterative Winter 2021), a Vietnam-based edtech startup that is training and educating a whole generation of coders and data scientists through its courses.

We're in our third year running Iterative, but it feels like we're just getting started. This will be our fifth batch of companies for Summer 2022 - and our biggest one yet.

We’re excited to announce the Visiting Partners for the upcoming Summer 2022 batch. They will be sharing their experience and insights with Iterative’s early-stage companies. They will host individual office hours, group office hours and help companies get ready for demo day.

Iterative is excited to host online office hours for startup founders every Friday. Office hours are 20-minute sessions between you and one of our partners, where they help you with your startup as much as they can.

We’re inviting former founders to work with and advise Iterative companies during Summer 2022. Visiting partners will host their own office hours, work with companies in group office hours and help companies prepare for Demo Day.

We are increasing the size of our investments from US $150,000 for 10% to be between US $150,000 and US $500,000 for roughly 10%.

We’re excited to be accepting applications for Summer 2022. Summer 2022 will be our 5th batch and starts on 4 July

After 3 batches, Iterative companies have raised $130M after our program and are now collectively worth over $720M. Our latest batch (Iterative Winter 2022) has large shoes to fill but we think this might be the strongest batch yet.

As Bitcoin enters its tweens as a 12-year old technology, the industry has seen exciting development—from Bitcoin being adopted as legal tender in a country, to DAOs making a dent in investment and art spaces. While it is early days yet, here are some ideas we have for the technology that we would like to see more of

On Wednesday, 14 April at 10am, Iterative will host Demo Day for our Winter 21 batch. Demo Day is for an invite-only audience.