🇸🇬 Open House: Startup Fxckups Night
We're bringing you our open house with our host Admond Lee — Startup Fxckups Night!
It's a night where founders will share their unfiltered startup fxckups and lessons learned to help you become a better operator by learning from their mistakes. For the aspiring founders, founders and investors like you.
We're doing something different this time, so here's how it works:
Choose your host and BYOQ — bring your own question for them after learning about their profile
It's a reverse panel so we give the stage to you — you asking the questions, not the panel moderator
We'll swap the groups after the first hour so you get to join another host
We'll offer bean-free coffee (decaf!) from Prefer Coffee! But feel free to bring your favorite drinks, so everyone can enjoy light snacks and drinks with idea jamming!
Meet your hosts:
Admond Lee, Founder at The Runway Venture
Ask Admond about newsletter, building products, being a technical founder
Jake Berber, Co-Founder & CEO at Prefer Coffee
Ask Jake about building a foodtech business, being a first-time founder, and marketing hacks
Eldred Wee, Founder & CEO at Edenity
Ask Eldred about Mergers & Acquisitions for 🇸🇬 SMEs, Fatherhood and Entrepreneurship, Hainanese Identity and legacy
Sam Neo, Founder & CEO at Stories of Asia
Ask Sam about Personal Branding, Entrepreneurship journey, community building
Rae Fung, Founder & Speaking Coach
Ask Rae about being a more powerful communicator, growing the impact of your message, and building a timeless personal brand.
Joshua Woo, Co-Founder at Recruit Fast
Ask Joshua about how to start a business, recruitment, and career
Min Chon Leow, Investment Associate at Blauwpark Partners
Ask Min Chon about what investors look for, fundraising process & dynamics and identifying business models for scaling
Can't wait to see what unfolds in this new experience and see y'all at our exclusive location! Bring your good vibes ✨
✨ About GenieFriends
A prompt-based IRL social network — we will match you with other guests based on your answers at registration to help spark your first conversation.
Tell us what you’re looking for and using our unique AI algorithm, we’ll show you those who share your interests and commonalities.
Connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn for more fun!
🚀 About The Runway Ventures
The Runway Ventures is helping founders become better and smarter operators by learning from startup failures through its weekly newsletter. Every Sunday, you'll get 1 failed startup story, 2 mistakes, and 3 lessons learned with actionable tips to build and grow your business — all for free.
Some of the most popular and exclusive failed startup stories we've covered include Flash Coffee, FashionValet, Octopus, TaniHub, Kaodim, Fusionex, and StayZilla.
Since then, we've built a growing community of founders, VCs, and operators across Southeast Asia. That's why we're organising this meetup for you to learn directly from founders — be it their unfiltered startup journey, mistakes made, or lessons learned.