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.

We're excited to announce the very first Iterative Founders Retreat. It’s open to all Iterative Founders from any batch. If you’re from one of the first 6 batches who didn’t get an in-person orientation, this is your chance.

Upcoming 2-week cohort-based program: Should You Start a Startup? Everything you need to know about starting a startup to make an informed decision. Sign up by 25 August 2024.

Introducing the Iterative Scout Program, a new initiative designed to streamline the process of discovering the next Iterative Founders by enabling existing Iterative Founders.

Apply to Iterative by Friday, 3 May to be eligible for Pre-Batch Office Hours with Hsu Ken. In that office hour, you'll work on what the 3 to 5 metrics to optimize for should be, set weekly targets for those metrics and prioritize a list of 2 to 3 things they should work on for the next few weeks.

For this batch, we received 1,000+ applications and had 500+ calls interviewing companies. From there, we selected these 24 companies. Read the article to read more about them and why we invested.

Explore job opportunities from our portfolio of 100+ companies with Iterative's Startup Job Board.

We’d like to do a little bit more before the end of the year, and hopefully meet you in the process!

Join one (or all!) of our events and initiatives this month, exclusively for women founders.

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?