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On this episode of Going Global, we shine the spotlight on I-Serve Group of Companies. The regional conglomerate is in the business of providing bill payment, low-cost airlines ticketing, express bus ticketing, telco prepaid top-up services and payment gateway solutions. We speak to I-Serve MD, Dato Alan Goh about their plans to create the biggest online shopping mall, and what I-Serve is doing to help corporations and individuals embrace e-commerce with their total e-commerce solutions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In line with the upcoming Enterprise Breakaway 2018, we take a look back at Enterprise Breakaway 2017, themed “Back to Basics”, for an idea of what to expect from BFM’s flagship entrepreneurship conference. In this episode, we hear Jeevan Sahadevan’s “7 Areas To Double Your Business Profits In The Next 12 Months”, as well as Faridah Hameed’s thoughts on a “Trillion Dollar Economy: How To Connect, Engage, and Market To The World’s Most Influential Consumer”. We also hear from Joanne Ho of Happy Bunch, Mohamad Faisal Ahmad Fadzil of Tanamera, and Noel Chelliah of Daily Muscle, who were speakers at the very first Enterprise Breakaway, for our “Where Are They Now?” panel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In line with the upcoming Enterprise Breakaway 2018, we take a look back at Enterprise Breakaway 2017, themed “Back to Basics”, for an idea of what to expect from BFM’s flagship entrepreneurship conference. In this episode, we hear from the panel titled “One Step Back, Two Steps Forward”. How do you know when to pull back, and how can you move on from that point to continue growing?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Going Global, we shine the spotlight on Bluenumber - a global platform for self-identification and voluntary traceability. Bluenumbers can show who produced the food for your table, made your clothes, or mined the metal for components in your phone or laptop. We speak to Founder & CEO Puvan Selvanathan about how Bluenumbers are being used to make policy and procurement decisions around the world, and what the future holds for this open, neutral registry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Being an entrepreneur is tough, especially if you are a young entrepreneur who is looking to start a business in a world where new and creative endeavours are harder and harder to think of. In line with that, Junior Chamber International, or JCI for short, created the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Award where they could showcase all this creativity. Two of 2017’s top 3 winners of the JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur Award - Clarence Leong, founder of Easy Parcel & Elwin Goh, founder of Wynkids - as well as Jee Soo Lip, 2018’s Creative Young Entrepreneur Awards Organising Chariman, discuss their experience of being involved with this award.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ganesh Bangah is a well-known name in the technopreneur community. He built MOL into one of the biggest payment companies in South East Asia, was the youngest CEO of a public listed company in Malaysia and led MOL to acquire Friendster, the world’s pioneer social network. Now, through his latest venture - Commerce.Asia, Ganesh is providing omni-channel solutions to SMEs and micro-entrepreneurs so they too can have an online presence. He speaks to us about the future of e-commerce in the region, and why Commerce.Asia was worth coming out of semi-retirement for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DOJO is a co-working space in KL working with organisations like Tech in Asia and Policy Street, notably securing an anchor tenant in the form of Commerce.Asia. Co-founders Jack Chan and Dewan Ng share their ideas about co-working and work culture in general, as well as their goals for the work culture that DOJO can provide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Going Global shines the spotlight on home-grown money services provider - MaxMoney. MaxMoney offers a fast, secure and convenient way for individuals and businesses to exchange and transfer over 100 different foreign currencies to more than 190 countries worldwide. What’s next for the company, and how are they dealing with e-wallet disruptors in their segment? Founder & CEO of MaxMoney Abda Hamid gives us the deets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s the durian season and at every corner of the street, you’ll find a random truck selling a bunch of durians for all you durian lovers. But there’s also a new trend at the moment and that is durian ice creams. Fruiti King recently just launched 6 new flavours in the market, two of them being Musang King and Durian, made from real durians. We speak to Max Teh, the CEO of Fruiti King about the challenges in making a real fruit ice cream and bringing it to market.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LintraMax provides plantation management solutions designed to automate a plantation's operational processes, making them more efficient, controllable and more cost-effective in the long run. They’ve also designed and created cloud-based systems and apps, to help oil palm planters streamline work processes in their plantations. Founder and Managing Director of LintraMax, Khor Kheng Khoon, shares their goal of digitalising agricultural practices.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.