On startups, growth, fundraising and more.

Working with outsourced engineers can either be a cost-effective, time-saving solution or a nightmare of communications and an expensive source of bugs/technical debt. To increase the probability of having a successful engagement, I've compiled a three step guide below.

By far, the biggest takeaway for me is: Founders are ready for primetime. A prime time founder is someone who's ready to take venture capital, grow at ungodly speeds, has the knowledge and capacity to control the organized chaos of a a startup company, and are ambitious and thinking big.

Southeast Asia is growing incredibly fast. After founding, helping, and just generally being around startups for the past 15 years of my life, I now know that growth rates are the signals you should follow. High growth rates lead to large TAMs very quickly. But why is this region growing so fast?

Founders in the Bay Area have all spent the past couple weeks putting together contingency plans for their tech startups. We want to help export some of that knowledge to SE Asia companies to make sure you're thinking about the same things for your company.

Founders of Decide.com (acquired by eBay) are starting a YC-style accelerator in Southeast Asia and investing USD $150K into every startup that's accepted.

He took a chance on four young college students with a poor idea and a lot of passion. Sometimes what people need the most is reinforcement that they can do something great and a kick in the right direction. With Iterative, we hope to be able to accomplish something similar with our batches.

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.

Lei Wong Lei is the Co-Founder of Ottodot (Iterative Winter 2022), a Singapore-based edtech startup that's creating schools for the metaverse. Before Ottodot, she was a Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Scholar and valedictorian. She also runs the Rice People Podcast.

In this episode, we have Yolanda Lee, co-founder of Uncommon. Uncommon is a private leadership network for the next generation of female leaders in the nation. Uncommon is a private leadership network for the next generation of female leaders in Asia. Uncommon provides a strong and uplifting network, a personalized development roadmap, tailored courses and workshops, and enriching speaker series, all in one membership.

Tim Grassin is a Co-Founder of TendoPay (Iterative S20), the largest online installment provider in the Philippine. On this episode, I talk to Tim about his earlier influences, switching from finance to entrepreneurship, how he built a multi-million dollar design agency, why he gave that up to start a startup in the Philippines and how they tested their initial idea by building a fake website that sold fake products to see if people would try their fake financing product.

Vibhas Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Outside Voice (Iterative S20), a no-code app builder for WhatsApp. On this episode, we talk about Vibhas (Vibes) childhood growing up in India, getting into and moving to Stanford but never actually attending Stanford, how he met his co-founder and came up with the idea of Outside Voice.

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

$10M from Village Global, Cendana, Andrew Chen and more, to invest exclusively in early-stage startups in Southeast Asia.

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