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 4, 2020 • 22min
Can I get your Kontakte?
Kontakte is a talent sourcing platform. They developed a platform that is the first of its kind where they connect readily available professionals with companies looking for immediate hires. Traditional recruitment platforms take companies anywhere from 1 week to 2 months to source their talent. On the Kontakte platform, talent sourcing times are under 1 day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 3, 2020 • 24min
Seeding Career Opportunities Online
Virtual job fairs have never been more popular thanks to the Covid-19 lockdowns. We speak to co-founder of online career fair startup Seeds, Aiman Azfar about the new hype surrounding these virtual job fairs, the overwhelming success of their most recent edition, and how Corporate Malaysia and Malaysians are taking to this modish way of securing new jobs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 2, 2020 • 28min
Property and Positivity During COVID-19
Who’s renting? Who’s selling? How has the property market found its footing during the pandemic? We speak to Bjorn Sprengers, CMO and Head of Fintech at PropertyGuru, about Lend A Space, an initiative to help those who have been displaced due to the crisis, as well as PropertyGuru’s use of tech and innovation to help them plan ahead for a post-pandemic market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 1, 2020 • 28min
18 Questions For Rapid Business Momentum Post-MCO
Businesses all over the country and even the world have taken huge hits, from minor revenue dips to massive shut downs and bankruptcies. Here in Malaysia, the primary focus of every entrepreneur as they come out fully from the MCO is to get their businesses to survive and later down the road to thrive. Jeevan Sahadevan, business growth expert and founder of LeverageLab takes us through 18 questions in 6 areas to help you gain rapid momentum in your business growth-post MCO.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 29, 2020 • 9min
Voice of SMEs - Biotree Biotechnology
On today's Voice of SMEs, CEO of Biotree Biotechnology Angeline Choo, an Alliance BizSmart Alumni herself, of came on the show to speak with us about how business has been during the pandemic, what’s changed, and what have they learned during these times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 29, 2020 • 21min
Extraordinary Endeavor - Ep 8
Today we talk about culture and vision for employees in light of the new norm. Our mentor today is Mitul Lakhani, the Group CEO of iMoney Group and our entrepreneurs today are from Endeavor Malaysia’s ScaleUp Program; Jun Yuen Lim, CEO & Co-Founder of Mossery and Zhen Ng, COO & Co-Founder of Vase.ai.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 28, 2020 • 21min
Powering Through The Pandemic: Swimming From Home?
What happens when you’re a swimming teacher and there’s a pandemic? You pivot. It might sound a little crazy to some, but to EJ he decided that there’s still the possibility for people to learn the science of swimming whilst at home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 28, 2020 • 15min
Voice of SMEs - Kiple
As businesses prepare their locations for in-house operations, several health safety precautionary measures have to be taken in order to reassure customers. Enter Kiple, a fintech company acquired by Greenpacket, ready to fill in the gaps. The Morning Run team spoke to group managing director and CEO C.C. Puan on the 13th of May about Greenpacket’s performance in general, but we spoke to him about how Kiple specifically has been holding up as well as their flagship proptech solution, KipleLive. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 28, 2020 • 14min
Voice of SMEs - Jeremy’s Chicks
Unfortunately for Urban Daybreak co-founder, Jeremy Teoh, Urban Daybreak is a prime brunch spot that suffered greatly along with many other F&B outlets during the MCO. But instead of only going online for takeaways, Jeremy decided to take a bigger step - he started a whole new brand instead. We had him on the line to talk about both his F&B outlets, Urban Daybreak and his newer venture, Jeremy’s Chicks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 27, 2020 • 18min
Voice of SMEs - Cyberjaya Farmer's Market
For many, the online space was the only form of revenue for some companies until it was safe to conduct business as normal again. Cyberjaya Farmer's Market naturally had this digital adoption forced on them as well. When the MCO was announced, the Market committee had to figure out a way to give their merchants an online space, and they had to do it FAST. We had Atirah Tan Abdullah on the line with us to talk about that switch from offline to online, as well as some of the challenges they’re facing at the moment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
