This Thursday, ASC is back with Mentorship Programme #4! There is no pitching and no hard selling—just genuine support to help you hurdle specific barriers. Here is how our mentorship structure works: - Horizontal Mentorship: Founders helping founders across different disciplines to establish clarity. - Vertical Mentorship: Once you have clarity, we bring in an expert to tackle your specific bottleneck. - Custom Matching: The ASC team actively searches for an advisor that fits your exact profile! Come ready to share your fears without judgment, listen for the "unsaid," and build a community that actively supports you. 🗓 Date: Thursday, Feb 26th ⏰ Time: 6:30-8:30 PM KH (ICT) 🔗 Register now: Mentorship Programme | Asean Startup Connect

Joining the “Get Funded” webinar with @Galeno Chua today raised some great reminders and questions ! - Did you know that in a first impression when an investor is asking themselves “can I trust this person?” 55% of that answer comes from your body language, 38% from your tone, and only 7% from the actual content? - Investors are paying attention to how you show up: your presence, your awareness, the way you read the room, how you talk about people who aren’t even in the room. - Preparation matters way beyond your pitch deck: who are you actually pitching to? - How do you show up authentically when startup culture feels like you need to “have it all together / fake it till you make it”? Integrity and being forward-thinking will make you stand out. If you say you have no competitors? That sounds off. But if you’ve identified who does something similar, how you’re different, and how you could even learn from or collaborate with them? You sound realistic. Like a more mature, less risky company to invest in… and that’s worth trust coins. I’m curious too: what are things you’ve learned from your own investor pitches? 👇

Check out this video recap of Mr. G's Launch Presentation from Day 1 of the ASEAN Startup Connect Conference: https://youtu.be/untf0BWu3cY In this presentation, G explains the specific challenges and opportunities that the ASEAN region currently has in regards to scaling and innovation. In a time of uncertainty, ASEAN nations must unite and support each other to shape the future of the region -- and ASC provides the AI-powered tools, community and resources to enable this. If you want to learn or revisit insights from the ASC Conference, please subscribe to our Youtube channel for more long form video recaps of presentations and short form reels of interviews with leaders at ASC!