Helping you run a successful startup

Read this before applying to Iterative, where we break down some of our questions in the application form.

Accelerators are often thought of as only being helpful with early stage companies but founders of seed stage companies have found our program helpful. Here's how.

It's a persistent question founders ask themselves - and the most difficult to answer.

How are founders in Southeast Asia defining product market fit?

Your top questions on validation, answered in videos.

How to validate your startup idea? We've compared the five common methods: what they are, how they compare to one another, and how you can use them.

Product market fit has no set definition - how are investors in Southeast Asia defining it?

We think it's instructive to share our rejection reasons - and hopefully it'll help founders better communicate why they are great founders with good ideas.

Our first AMA, where Hsu Ken answered the questions founders had on how to grow your startup.

In the world of startup fundraising, mistakes are costly. While a mistake can look different for different investors, there are common threads in the VC industry.

Jeff Liu and Justin Louie are the co-founders of Jenfi (YC W20). Jenfi lends to small businesses in Southeast Asia based on revenue. Jenfi has raised US$2.1M in funding.

Get excited to meet our sixth batch of companies for Winter 2023.

We're excited to welcome back Jessica Chao and Shawn Low, and welcome Chinmay Chauhan, Sylvia Yin, Tessa Wijaya and YC Ng!

With the launch of Fund II, we have plans to back 100+ more companies in Southeast Asia, across various stages.

If I could only teach one thing to future and current founders, it would be how to validate startup ideas. Sign up for the validation program.

Fundraising is a skill and we want to teach founders how to get good at it.

We're in our third year running Iterative, but it feels like we're just getting started. This will be our fifth batch of companies for Summer 2022 - and our biggest one yet.

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.

For a startup to be successful, it needs to be solving an important problem.

What do we look for when deciding to invest in startups?

The most important thing for a startup, and by extension the engineers at the startup, is iteration speed.

Here are the 3 questions I ask myself when trying to answer this question and what to do about it.

Fundraising is slow right now. My hunch is fundraising both will pick up in the second half of this year. Here's why.

Interestingly enough, 'product market fit' is a term often used by founders starting out but almost never by more experienced founders. Why?

A year ago, I wrote our first Request for Startups - and I'm revisiting the themes again to see what I got right or wrong.

A common question we get is: “Which is more important in fundraising: a strong story or strong traction?” But what is a strong story and strong traction — and why are they important?