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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Jun 17, 2020 • 21min
Solace - Not your average event planner
Behind the scenes of everyday life, applications and connected devices generate billions of “events.” These events enable the connected world around you. They ensure the train you’re riding safely reaches its destination, and they allow you to monitor your child’s data usage or make secure credit card payments, to name a few examples. We talk to Sumeet Puri about how these “events” impact our daily lives, and how they’re involved in the automotive industry of the future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 16, 2020 • 24min
Fit To Flex Again
With gyms allowed to reopen again this week, we discuss the new measures the fitness industry has put in place for the safety of members, trainers and gym operators nationwide. Kamal Hezry from the F45 franchise also talks about the impact the MCO has had on the fitness business, and how virtual workouts will play a role in our fitness regime moving forward.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 16, 2020 • 20min
Contactless Orders and Cloud-Based Solutions
There's no denying that digitalization and cloud-based POS and CRM systems are a defining factor in helping businesses survive the unprecedented crisis that is COVID-19. Digitalization helped SMEs stay alive when the economy was all but shut down. We speak to Ooi Boon Sheng, CEO of Web Bytes and Xilnex Live, about their own cloud-based solutions, how they've helped clients navigate uncertain times, the dwindling popularity of touchscreen kiosks, as well as the rise of contactless orders. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2020 • 23min
The Me-new Normal
Like many SMEs around the world, food delivery enterprise dahmakan found itself in a strange predicament at the cusp of the pandemic. On the one hand, dahmakan had just achieved a new round of funding; on the other, the company needed to revise and revamp many of its operational and expansion ideas in a short period of time. Co-founder & CEO, Jonathan Weins, explains how dahmakan found a new outlook in the MCO, and their exciting plans for the rest of the year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 12, 2020 • 27min
Extraordinary Endeavor - Ep 10
This week, it's about how to improve your sales funnel, something many would be needing as businesses reopen after the long MCO period. Our mentor for today is Vicks Kanagasingam, CEO of Xperanti IoT and our entrepreneurs are Darrel Ang, Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer for CapBay & Melissa Sim, CEO & Co-Founder of AdEasy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 11, 2020 • 20min
Keeping your ENVIROment clean
Not that many years ago, the world was hit with the SARS pandemic - with Asia bearing the major brunt of the infection. At that time the ENVIRO Group were a fledgling company that realised they had a huge opportunity to show just how well their services work in disinfecting buildings, surfaces and the general public. Fast forward a few years, and we hear from Nitesh about what they've learned, and how they're using their acquired knowledge to help tackle the new pandemic of Covid-19.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 10, 2020 • 27min
From Café To Online Groceries Delivery
Brick House Group consists of 3 different business verticals that all connects to one another. The Grounds which is an event space, POKOK which is a restaurant / café and DAUN, the little sister to POKOK. When the MCO took effect, all 3 of these businesses were forced to close and within days turned themselves into an online grocery delivery platform that can deliver your goods within hours! We speak to Datin Christine Bong, the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brick House Group on how they managed to do this and keep their operations running.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 9, 2020 • 18min
Food, Content, and Expansion
What happens when a media company that specializes in culinary content finds themselves in the middle of a Movement Control Order? And how do they move forward now when consumer behavior is vague and uncertain? We speak to Mei Rei Qua, Product Manager at KL Foodie, about content creation when content is scarce, their new app Foodie+, as well as new goals and expansion plans in a post-MCO marketplace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 5, 2020 • 21min
Extraordinary Endeavor - Ep 9
This week, we look into organisational structure and how best to restructure the needs of your company in light of what's been happening. Our mentor for today is Francois van Raemdonck, partner at Bain & Company and our entrepreneurs for today are Tommy Yong, the Co-Founder and CCO of iStore iSend & Vivian Loh, the Co-Founder and COO of Mossery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 4, 2020 • 24min
World Environment Day: Bringing Beauty Down To Earth
In honour of World Environment Day today, the co-founder of Tanamera, Mohamed Faisal bin Ahmad Fadzil, discusses how Tanamera has stuck to their core principles of using raw materials for their home spa & beauty products over the past two decades, as well as the environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how businesses can capitalise on the growing trend towards sustainable consumerism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
