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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Apr 5, 2019 • 24min
Predicting Future Shopper Behavior With Nielsen
Nielsen’s new SmartStore - a VR-powered application that studies shopper behavior in a realistic environment - plans to change the way retailers understand their customers and plan successful campaigns ahead of time. It allows retailers to plan on future data, instead of relying on old research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 4, 2019 • 25min
Tableside Romance with Ocean Flair Group (Part 2)
We continue our very honest chat with food innovator Navin Karu about creating a winning combination of setting, cuisine and service to thrive in the F&B industry, as well as the recipe for the perfect burger patty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 3, 2019 • 27min
Tableside Romance with Ocean Flair Group
Success for Navin Karu has had a domino effect. While many struggle in the F&B scene, the chef and CEO of Ocean Flair Group has continued to see his restaurants voted as some of the top places to dine at in Kuala Lumpur. The food innovator gets real about the extent of the issues F&B businesses have to contend with, including everything from ethical sourcing, MSG to navigating a dishonest supply chain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 2, 2019 • 23min
Making Your Child A “Little Tauke”
We all know the importance of financial literacy and the wisdom in handling money. However, while most people learn by trial and error into adulthood, Ng Pui Yee and Kyle Tan, founders of a startup called Little Tauke, provide financial literacy education programmes for children starting from the age of five. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 1, 2019 • 35min
Growing Revenue In Challenging Times
Businesses often go through periods of challenging times where revenues take a dip and sales can be hard to come by. Jeevan Sahadevan shares his Principle For Fast Revenue Generation, as well as methods to pick up your business revenues no matter what the market is like alongside some case studies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 29, 2019 • 26min
Making Renting A Cleaner Experience
Stories of landlords who only rent to a certain race and difficulty in finding property in Malaysia are abundant, despite the fact there’s an oversupply of homes and not enough people to fill them. Speedrent, an online rental platform, aims to change all that not just by creating a more “colorblind” process, but also eliminating the middleman altogether. We speak to founder Wong Whei Meng about creating a cleaner renting experience, the backlash his app gets from property agents, and the idea of being a disruptor in the property sphere.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 28, 2019 • 28min
Conversations With Kayak’s Data Scientist
Tech is quickly becoming the core of travel planning. With so many apps and interfaces vying for attention, it’s important to build a “digital web” across multiple platforms to ensure a seamless experience for the customer. We speak to Matthias Keller, Kayak’s Chief Scientist, about the role of Natural Language Processing in travel, the way machine learning is changing the travel landscape, and the new ways travelers make their choices today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 27, 2019 • 28min
Bestinet : Setting the Record Straight
Bestinet was founded to revolutionise Malaysia’s complex migrant workers management system. And while its efforts as a cross-border migration solutions provider has received widespread recognition and awards, Bestinet is still trying to shake off bad press, and its toll on the company’s bottom line. We speak to CEO Ismail Mohd Noor about their tumultuous year, and how Bestinet hopes to keep the focus centred on a healthy and productive national workforce.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 26, 2019 • 22min
Funky Pencils
We all love customised products - a keychain from a dollar store with our name on it, or a monogrammed towel with our initials. So why not personalise stationery, too? Fiqa Chong & Nini Zuraina discuss their company, Funky Pencils, as well as their previous dalliances with entrepreneurship and why third time’s the charm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 25, 2019 • 37min
Handling A Toxic Environment
A toxic workplace can be defined as any job where the work, the atmosphere, the people, or any combination of those things seriously affect your peace of mind, your self-esteem, your mental and physical health, and even your relationships. Sheila Singam, Human Equation founder, is back on the last Monday of the month to discuss toxic environments in and out of the workplace through case studies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
