Shifting the Youth Pipeline: Inside East Ventures’ My First $1000 Programme

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East Ventures’ My First $1,000 program wrapped its eight-week execution phase with student teams generating S$117,822.98 in revenue. The initiative pushed young founders to build and sell real products with a small seed allocation and a cost-of-capital requirement. Many teams focused on AI-first ideas across enterprise automation, hiring, and education, showing how quickly students adopted agentic tools. The program also highlighted rapid pivots, manufacturing setbacks, and zero-revenue teams as part of the learning process. East Ventures positioned the effort as a long-term pipeline for future founders and tech talent in Singapore.

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