ASN Masterclass: Harness the Power of Community for your Business (Advanced)(Half Day)
Is starting or growing a community your goal for this new year?
Known for building highly engaged communities, Elise will be sharing top tips and frameworks in this masterclass + powerful secrets behind building communities that actually thrive — not just gather.
Why is the mastering community important for a business owner/ entrepreneur?
Community is one of the most cost-effective engines of business growth. It lowers customer acquisition costs, strengthens loyalty, and creates a natural flywheel for your brand. With an engaged community, you get real-time feedback, co-create solutions with your customers, and build deeper trust that competitors cannot copy. A strong community doesn’t just support your business—it amplifies it.
This is the advanced class for harnessing the Power of your Community.
Perfect for:
Business owners, Community volunteers, founders & leaders to grow their community
You will learn:
✔ Community growth frameworks Elise uses in Remarkable Women Asia/ Asia Startup Network
✔ How to attract and grow your “tribe”
✔ How to deepen belonging, loyalty, and momentum
✔ How to scale and monetise your community
This is part of the ASN Soarify programme where you may pay with Skills Future Credits or cash for the following
15,000 micro learning courses on Zillearn (our partner)(Only for Skills Future Credits payment)
2 half-day in-person workshops
Community of like minded learners as well as passionate entrepreneurs, investors and industry practitioners.
Select across interesting and useful topics like AI Vibe coding, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship through acquisition and more. (see lu.ma/asiastartupnetwork for the full list of courses)
🌟 About Your Instructor — Elise Tan
Community Builder. Ecosystem Architect.
Elise Tan brings over a decade of hands-on experience building some of Singapore’s most vibrant entrepreneurship communities and supporting early founders as they scale their businesses.
She founded Asia Startup Network (ASN) in 2020 and grew it organically into a thriving ecosystem of 4,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and partners. Under her leadership, ASN has:
Organised 100+ high-impact events,
Secured sponsorships from Google, Amazon, Airwallex, Aspire, and more,
Garnered over S$100,000 in corporate sponsorship, and
Raised nearly S$200,000 in donations,
Supported 500+ founders in accessing mentorship, partnerships, and capital.
In 2024, Elise launched Remarkable Women Asia, a fast-growing community for women in tech, leadership, and entrepreneurship. In just 18 months, it expanded to 700+ active members, becoming one of the most dynamic women-led business communities in Singapore.
Before running ASN full-time, Elise served as Director of Communications & Community at Vertex Ventures SEA & India, where she built regional thought leadership, advised founders on storytelling, and launched the Top 10 Singapore entrepreneurship podcast, Hard Truths by Vertex.
Her career weaves together ecosystem design, storytelling, entrepreneurial coaching, and community strategy — giving her the rare ability to turn groups of people into movements, cultures, and purpose-driven networks that last.
About ASN (Asia Startup Network)
Elise Tan and Andrew Tan are the co-founders of the Asia Startup Network (ASN), an active platform dedicated to accelerating the growth of early-stage tech startups in Asia.
Elise Tan brings over a decade of experience in running accelerators and assisting early founders in scaling their businesses. Prior to ASN, she served as the Director of Communications and Community at Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, where she developed thought leadership content and launched the "Hard Truths by Vertex" podcast, which became a top 10 entrepreneurship podcast in Singapore.
Her LinkedIn profile is accessible on www.linkedin.com/in/elisetanyl.
Andrew Tan has more than 10 years of leadership experience, including founding his own social enterprise, building startups, and managing scale-ups. As the Country Manager at Wantedly, he oversees international business operations outside of Japan, leading teams across Business Development, Marketing, and Client Success. His prior roles include growing a travel technology startup, BeMyGuest, into a Series B company valued at $30 million, and establishing One Belt One Road Venture Capital, securing partnerships such as the Tencent Open Platform to invest in SINO-ASEAN startups.
Together, Elise and Andrew have cultivated ASN into a community of over 4,000 founders, investors, and partners, fostering collaboration and providing vital resources to the startup ecosystem in Southeast Asia.
His LinkedIn profile is accessible on www.linkedin.com/in/andrew10.
What our past participants said about our master classes.
Average Rating: 5.0/5.0 on Luma
Natalie: "the workshop felt welcoming and I was blessed to connect with 2 lovely ladies who shared similar interests with me. And got to know everyone with their self introduction was likeable, friendly, willing to learn despite being in various backgrounds regardless from finances, tech, VC investments and startup scenes. I was in awe that everyone was very experienced and had individual learning objectives."
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What happens after this Masterclass
If you're ready to embark on this transformative journey or have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to [email protected]. Let's unlock your full potential together. Visit www.asiastartupnetwork.com/accelerate for more details.
Photos from our past programs
Catch up sessions for alumni
About Asia Startup Network
ASN didn’t start as an educational institute or training centre. ASN is a living, thriving startup ecosystem. Their founders have spent more than one decade coaching and supporting entrepreneurs and created one of the largest communities of > 3,000 startup founders, operators, investors and partners in Southeast Asia to collaborate and support each other’s growth. Since 2020, ASN has been organising 100s of startup workshops, events and programs to help entrepreneurs leapfrog their growth and raise funding. Join ASN for the knowledge, but stay because of the network. These are the reasons why taking a course at ASN and quickly plugging into the community would move the needle more than you expect.
ASN is founded by Elise Tan and Andrew Tan. Elise has experience designing programs and personally coaching hundreds of founders at incubators and accelerators for over 10 years. She assisted more than 40 companies in raising more than US$1 million each. Andrew has more than 10 years of leadership experience founding his own social enterprise, building start ups and managing scale ups, as well as running ground up initiatives and communities, Andrew has a proven track record of driving growth and success and this will be transferred directly to this accelerator and its startups.
ASN began firstly with Mentor For Hope in 2020, an impactful mentoring initiative initially supported by the Temasek Foundation under the OSCAR grant. The initiative facilitated 525 mentoring hours for 300 founders adversely affected by the COVID crisis, connecting them with invaluable insights from 250 investors, partners, and experts.
In 2021, Elise and Andrew organised Makan For Hope Festival (with zero budget), a series of 30 virtual roundtables featuring VC managing partners and founders from notable startups like PropertyGuru, Shopback, and Carousell. The festival drew participation from 500 attendees, raising $123,000 in charity donations.
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