Tag Archives: M’sian

“Before MCO, I used to frequent local arts bazaars and discovered a lot of interesting, high-quality products from small brands and businesses.” “Due to the pandemic, bazaars came to a halt, so these brands are depending on online sales, usually from Facebook & Instagram. Online demand generation was critical, but …

Not too long ago, I ran into this thread in the Entrepreneurs and Startups in Malaysia Facebook group about the question, “When do startups stop being called startups?” I asked my team what they thought about this, and we all agreed that there didn’t seem to be a universal consensus …

It’s an oft-quoted claim, how coding is an unfriendly place to women. Women made up only 21% of Malaysia’s cybersecurity workforce in 2017 (though it was still an impressive number compared to the US’s 11% at the time). But Vani Mahadevan—founder of Malaysia’s first women-only coding school, TechSprint Academy—claimed that …

“Our target demographic is anyone who enjoys seeing a happy face,” summarised Jarrod Joshua, one of the 4 founders of make hay, sunshine!, a whole foods gift basket business.  make hay, sunshine! started out as a whole foods distributor and e-commerce platform until the founders later realised how big the …

This year has pushed brands in various industries to come up with pivots or ideas to keep surviving in the new norm.  While the new year doesn’t guarantee a better year for business, this extremely uncertain year alone has at least geared many up to brace themselves for future unforeseen …

Much like BentukBentuk whose founders came from an IT background and now run a successful home decor business, Ikmal has a similar story. Coming from a decade-long career in the IT industry, Ikmal picked up the precise art of making Neapolitan pizzas for his wife in a wood-fired oven he …

Chicken breasts are popular in the fitness realm due to their low caloric count and high protein content. Another reason for their likability is in their convenience, as it only takes 15 minutes to cook one well. But for too-busy white-collar workers who still wish to be fit and healthy, …

“Organisations need to be data-driven in order to compete effectively,” Jimmy Ting, Managing Director of DataMicron first told Vulcan Post. But he saw that organisations faced an issue here: they had vast amounts of data, and lacked solutions to help them analyse it all. This was in particular for enterprise …

Author’s blurb: When I think of concrete, the first thing that comes to mind is usually grey and hard structures used to build walls and pave floors. The industrial look can come off unflattering to me, especially when left exposed without being painted first. But Adesh and Shahfiq see a …