Newsroom Featured

roiquant aspires to empower startup founders worldwide

Our goal is to offer founders the hybrid solution of Bloomberg Terminal and Y Combinator.

Startup Featured

VC funding benchmarks for startups

"Back the right people. People make products. Products don't make people. Only a tiny percentage of people possess the managerial and motivational capabilities to build extraordinary growth companies." (Thomas J. Davis, Jr.)

Startup Featured

Story of roiquant.com and advice for first-time founders

The benefits of the roiquant.com domain name, advice for aspiring founders, and what’s new in roiquant's future plans.

Startup Featured

roiquant allows founders to reduce risk of business failure

roiquant's intelligent data-centric solutions power decisions, risk analytics, and data intelligence for founders.

Newsroom

Flipidea rebranded as roiquant, an affordable startup intelligence allowing founders build high-ROI and competitive business

The rebranding will reflect its mission to help founders reduce risk of business failure.

Failure Featured

Startup failure is a feature, not a bug

Especially when over 85% of startups won't survive up to 10 years.

Startup

How to refine intuitive ideas by learning from failure?

"Figuring out how to show that your problem is wrong, is in essence how you work your way through innovating." (Dr. Luis Perez-Breva, 2017)

Startup

[Part 1] How can learning from business failures help us compete creatively?

"Even negative results provide us a chance to apply correctives, and in that way, help us improve our future behaviour." (Prof. Dietrich Dörner, 1989)

Newsroom

Founders, differentiate creatively & compete wisely to reduce failure rate

In an interview with Venture Mirror, Paul shared how Flipidea differentiates itself against its competitors.

Startup

How learning from business failures can help us innovate better?

Learn the UVP/USP of others' to inspire your own UVP/USP design.

Startup

How to validate your intuitive business idea with GV's Research Sprint?

"Companies can succeed in great markets even with mediocre teams but great teams will always lose to a bad market." (Andy Rachleff)

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Curated readings for June 2020

I'm regularly reading to improve my learning, and I'm sharing what I find useful with you to grow together.

Newsroom

Empowering entrepreneurs with purposeful data to innovate

In a full interview with Vulcan Post, Paul shared how he is building an evidence-based data analytics startup.

Newsroom

This M'sian launched a business that depends on the failures of other businesses

Launched by a Malaysian entrepreneur, Flipidea offers analytical data about failed businesses from around the world with insights on how to improve yours.

Analysis Featured

Why did 500 startups shut down?

Discovering meaningful patterns in business failures.

Newsroom

PODCAST: "Why startups shut down?" on Falsely Essential

Stop failing fast: analyzing failure, digging into, and discovering patterns that lead to the F! word is as important as researching your market deeper, before jumping on any project you have in mind.

Startup

In startupland, less is "the new more"

Living in a fast-paced world, it’s easy to slip into the habit of doing more, having more, giving more, and most of the time, too much.

Newsroom Featured

Flipidea won Best AI & Machine Learning Startup at Brunei Rice Bowl Startup Awards 2019

The nine winning startups will now go onto represent Brunei at the ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards next January 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – with those victorious regionally entering the Global Startup Awards.

Newsroom

PODCAST: Flipidea featured by Open For Business on BFM 89.9

Open for Business is the flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad.

Newsroom Featured

Flipidea awarded with Special Award (R&D) at BiCTA Awards 2019

Flipidea was awarded the Research & Development Special Award by H.E. Minister Dato Abdul Mutalib Yusof from Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications of Brunei Darussalam in Brunei ICT Awards 2019.

Fundraising Featured

First-time founders, read this before you raise money from VCs

This guide is intended for founders who plan to raise their first round with "institutional" VCs (a.k.a VC firms and not business angels) which is, most of the times, a Seed or Series A round.

Newsroom

Start-up guides entrepreneurs by learning from ‘failures’

Every year, over 75% of new & small companies worldwide shut down. As a result, Flipidea developed an 'idea checker' to predict the failure rates of its users' proposed or existing business.

Newsroom

Out of stealth, Flipidea unveils its business idea checker

"The purpose is to enable our users to draw insights from the failed businesses and learn from their reasons for failure."

Analysis Featured

Why did 150 startups fail? Here are the top 30 reasons for failure.

Discovering meaningful patterns in business failures.

Glossary Featured

Glossary of business failures

Understand the terms and definitions commonly used by entrepreneurs and investors in the tech startup and business scenes.