Open For Business
BFM Media
The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (father of video games), Tony Buzan (Mindmap Guru), Isaac Tigrett (Hard Rock Cafe founder), Robert Kiyosaki (Financial Guru), Nick Vujicic (motivational speaker) and more. Tap into this valuable resource of shared experiences for the SME industry, which also touches on news, issues and trends affecting the business community and beyond.
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Aug 3, 2021 • 23min
Meat Substitute? Meet Nanka
With the desire to provide better alternatives to fast food, Ahmad Syafik Jaafar of Ira Noah co-founded Nanka, a company that uses jackfruits as burger patties. To find out why, we speak to Ahmad Syafik Jaafar while discovering how jackfruits stand out when compared to other meat substitutes and his aspirations for Nanka. Image Credit: Nanka | https://nanka.in/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 2, 2021 • 30min
7 Steps for Entrepreneurs and Employees to Thrive Despite The Continuing Pandemic
As our country and the world continue to vaccinate, citizens work through lockdowns and other pandemic strategies, businesses fight to survive as employees lose their jobs too. Founder of Leverage Lab, Jeevan Sahadevan provides a powerful yet simple framework for everyone to put into their businesses and lives to begin thriving despite the continuing pandemic. Image Credit: kentoh | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 30, 2021 • 28min
Making It Easy For Micro SMEs To Go Online
AVANA is a social commerce platform that helps business owners sell online. They have helped over 100,000 businesses optimize their brands and automate their business capabilities online. Dough Little meanwhile is an arts and crafts business offering handcrafted natural play dough that tastes safe for children. Soh Yien Yee, COO and Co-Founder of AVANA and Dr Wong Mei Mei, Founder of Dough Little talk to us about starting their business, the challenges they face and their upcoming plans. Image Credit: The Star & Dough LittleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 29, 2021 • 21min
Not Treading Lightly
Flipping sneakers have been a viable business for decades. According to Statistica, a company specialising in market and consumer data, the overall global resale sneakers market is forecasted to reach a value of US$97.8 billion by 2024. In Asia, Novelship is known to be the fastest-growing marketplace for sneakers and streetwear. After just two years into the business, they have achieved their first US$1 million monthly revenue milestone despite the recent pandemic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 28, 2021 • 20min
eGift From Me To You
Right now, many people are unable to celebrate with their loved ones in the traditional way. Lockdown restrictions and physical distancing remove a lot of joy and sharing from the celebration equation. So how do you still reach out with a nice, safe gesture? Ryo Okubo, director of Giftee Malaysia, discusses the concept of eGifting and how virtual gifts can benefit both the consumers and the merchants. Image Credit: S-Design1689 | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2021 • 18min
Music & Massage For Melons
Mono Premium Melon aims to grow the best Japanese melons in Malaysia using Japanese methods. With their IoT setup, the amount of nutrients or water a plant needs, amending the fertiliser composition and monitoring its temperature can all be done remotely. We speak with the co-founder of Mono about their radical methods, which include playing music for their melons. Image Credit: Fotosr52 | ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 26, 2021 • 38min
Failing Forward: Pareto Before You Pivot
On this episode of Failing Forward, we discuss the Pareto Principle - the 80/20 connection that was discovered in the 1800s but is still being applied to almost every aspect of our lives today, especially in the business world. Click here for more episodes of Failing Forward. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 23, 2021 • 20min
Putting The Mojo Back to F&B
A centralised kitchen with shared services staff, dining and sales infrastructure so that vendors can focus solely on cooking delicious and nutritious food is what MOJOS Kitchen aspires to be. The co-founders, Gaurav Joshi and Sharayas Saranthan, discuss why they started MOJOS and how they plan to expand their food delivery service company. Image Credit: MOJOS Kitchen | FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 23, 2021 • 20min
Putting The Mojo Back to F&B
A centralised kitchen with shared services staff, dining and sales infrastructure so that vendors can focus solely on cooking delicious and nutritious food is what MOJOS Kitchen aspires to be. The co-founders, Gaurav Joshi and Sharayas Saranthan, discuss why they started MOJOS and how they plan to expand their food delivery service company. Image Credit: MOJOS Kitchen | FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 22, 2021 • 20min
WhyQ
Founded in 2014, WhyQ started out as a hawker-first digital ecosystem enabling hawkers in Singapore to deliver cooked food and order wholesale raw-material supplies aided with integrated POS systems. WhyQ works to digitalise not just hawkers, but also small businesses such as MSMEs across all industries and sectors in Malaysia. Image Credit: WhyQ | FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
