The Founder Institute has extended the Founder application deadlines for Paris, Singapore and Denver based on multiple qualified applicant requests. The Los Angeles semester is now closed, since sessions are starting next week. If you have been accepted into any of the semesters, please complete the requirements to reserve your spot in the program.

Paris and Singapore applications are due next Sunday, March 7th. Denver applications are now due on Sunday, April 4th. If you have not done so already, take a moment to apply to Paris, Singapore and Denver. More news on these locations and Mentors will be announced over the next couple of days.

Good luck!

SINGAPORE, February 8th, 2010 – Silicon Valley-based The Founder Institute, a four-month training and mentoring programme for technology entrepreneurs, announces its first-ever Spring 2010 semester for Singapore. With this expansion, the Institute will be the first Silicon Valley mentoring program in Singapore, and will now be on pace to graduate over 700 founders creating over 500 companies per year in nine cities worldwide.

The Founder Institute has appointed Singapore-based venture advisory and investment firm Battle Ventures, who is partnered with iAxil, the venture accelerator arm of Ascendas, to jointly bring their programme to Singapore and Southeast Asia-based entrepreneurs.

Run by founders for founders, this unique mentoring program nurtures aspiring and current high-tech entrepreneurs and employs a unique, team-work oriented ecosystem to foster the establishment of new start-up ventures. The programme also allows a small amount of equity to be shared amongst all participants in the
companies formed – including the experienced mentors who help grow the new businesses.

“We have discovered a formula to help passionate founders create meaningful and enduring companies in different markets around the world,” says Adeo Ressi, CEO of TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute. “We leverage leading social science methods to identify top talent, and then we offer an intense start-up curriculum focused on teamwork and guidance from leading local and global CEOs. Our unique approach has allowed the Institute to scale almost ten times larger than comparable incubators or accelerators.”
“iAxil is committed to fostering a nurturing and vibrant start-up environment that is vital to spawning innovative high-tech start-ups with the global potential and appeal,” says Mr Tan Yew Chin, Director of iAxil and CEO of Ascendas Land (Singapore). “The iAxil team of senior incubator managers will combine their
business skills; domain expertise and start-up experience with our wide network of partners to help graduates from the Founder Institute Mentoring Programme jumpstart their ventures.”

During the semesters, local aspiring and current entrepreneurs can gain access to founders and CEOs of world-renown companies, such as Philip Kaplan, Co-Founder of Blippy, Jeff Stewart, Founder and CEO of Urgent Career, Pete Deemer, Co-Founder of Scrum Training Institute, Dr. KF Lai, Co-Founder and CEO of Buzzcity and Jared Morgenstern, Product Ninja of Facebook as mentors amongst others.

“One of the greatest problems facing local entrepreneurs is the lack of credible and experienced mentors to help guide and advise them,” said Jeffrey Paine, Managing Partner at Battle Ventures. “With this programme, our entrepreneurs now have access to founders who have successfully created and run multiple start-ups
themselves and who are best placed to advise them.”

Applications for early acceptance into the Singapore semester are due on February 15th, 2010, with the final application deadline on February 28th. Anyone starting a technology company or with a dream to launch an innovative business in Singapore is invited to apply at http://www.founderinstitute.com/apply/11.
The Singapore Founder Institute mentoring programme is administered by iAxil, and is supported by SPRING Singapore under the Incubator Development Programme (IDP).

The Mobile Premier Awards announces the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.

The finalists were chosen by an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010 in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

(We sent one nomination to MPA, but this year Indonesia didn’t make it to the finals).

The year’s MPA best in Mobile Startup innovation Finalists are:

MobileMonday Austria – Mobilizy

MobileMonday Barcelona – fonYou

MobileMonday Berlin – spendino

MobileMonday Bogota – RedSalvavidas

MobileMonday Chennai – mobiSiteGalore

MobileMonday Copenhagen – Cepa Mobility

MobileMonday Edinburgh – Mobile Acuity

MobileMonday Estonia – TaxiPal

MobileMonday Lithuania – SendFlow

MobileMonday London – Audioboo

MobileMonday Milan – Soundtrckr

MobileMonday Munich – Aloqa

MobileMonday New Delhi – Voicetap Technologies

MobileMonday New York – PercentMobile

MobileMonday Oslo – Bipper Communication

MobileMonday Rest of EMEA – Layar

MobileMonday Silicon Valley – CloudMade

MobileMonday Slovenia – Visionect

MobileMonday Stockholm – MoSync

MobileMonday Tel Aviv – waze

The finalists chosen to the Innovation Awards will present along with the winners in the other categories chosen by our partner networks (see below).

You can follow their activities here on this MPA Finalist Twitter List.

Barcelona?

If you happen to be in Barcelona this February, please make sure to attend the MPA awarding ceremony… for details please check: link

Quick post: some of the slides from the 12 Jan event is available. We have the slide from MobileMonday, vuclip and 3G Vision.

Please go here to download them: http://sites.google.com/site/idmomogroup/download-slides

Good read to start the 2010! Mobile Trends 2020 compiled by Rudy de Waele of MobileMonday Barcelona. Top trends for the next decade of mobile technology… a collaborative effort of the top bloggers in mobile industry.

Enjoy!

Dear MobileMonday Friends,

Happy New Year to you all… Opening the year, we will begin by revisiting the theme: mobile as the 7th mass media. A lot have changed since our first 2008 event on mobile mass media. Coming this January is a joint event about the upcoming trends, case studies, and opportunities in mobile media and new media.

The basic rules of brand building in the digital space are as important as they are for traditional forms of brand communications. Mavenix and MobileMonday Indonesia, supported by Mobile Marketing Association (Indonesia), are proud to present the first major seminar in 2010.

“New Year, New Media, New Ideas”

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 – that’s next week! And yes, it’s Tuesday.
Blitz Megaplex @ Pacific Place, 2pm – 5.30pm

Speakers are:

1. Andy Zain (MobileMonday Indonesia) – “Get more social and mobile: Mobile Social Networking in Indonesia case study”
2. Avi Marinstrauss (3GVision) – “QR Code creativity & technology: how brands can benefit from it”
3. Ashwin Puri (VuClip) – “Mobile video – new trend vs monetization”
4. Joerg Krahnert (NetBiscuits) – “The next generation mobile sites”
5. Michael Budi (AR&Co) – “Augmented Reality for branding – local case studies”

This event is geared towards our agency friends, brands, and content providers who are keen to explore the exciting and ever changing landscape of new media.

The seminar is FREE and seats are limited – RSVP is a must.

So please visit our website to register: http://www.mobilemonday.co.id/events/register-to-event

See you there!

MobileMonday Indonesia & Mavenix

… remember that last November (11-12 November) we had the Frost & Sullivan Telco Summit and Mobile Marketing Association event… the slides are available at our usual website: http://sites.google.com/site/mobilemondayid

I got the presentation from Rohit / MMA Global, Joseph / m-Stars, Ben Soebiakto / Octovate, and Amiranto / J-Spot.