Photo by 9dream studio / Shutterstock.com Out with the old and in with the new — habits, that is! 2021 is nearly here, promising a fresh start with 365 days to work toward and achieve all of your goals for the new year. From a 52-week guided goal journal and …
Read More »New Year’s Eve at Home
A highlight reel of what to watch and do (virtually, of course) to ring in the new year. Along with so many things, the pandemic has dashed many of go-to New Year’s traditions — no raging clubs, no in-person ball drop, no kissing strangers at midnight, not even the annual …
Read More »These S’poreans Turn Asian Food Into Healthy Meals – Hit 7-Figure Annual Sales In Under 3 Years
When Yummy Bros co-founders launched their business on 1 April 2018, many of their friends thought that it was an April Fools’ joke. It shouldn’t come as a surprise though. Gerald Tan and Anson Lim, the first two members of the founding team, are both fitness junkies. For Gerald, it’s …
Read More »Printcious Proves It’s Still M’sia’s Go-To Personalised Gift Startup, 5 Years Into The Biz
In your search for gifts that can be personalised, you may have come across Printcious by now. They’ve been in the gifting industry since 2007, albeit under a different name at first: Heartbeat.my. Now they’ve moved entirely online and will be celebrating their sixth anniversary in 2021 as Printcious. It’s …
Read More »This Cheras Shoe Shop Survived 50+ Years Serving A Niche Target Market—Ballroom Dancers
Author’s Blurb: When I was in college, I did ballroom dancing for a bit. I used to just dance in my Converse, as did most of my peers in their regular shoes as well. Because only so few of us did it professionally, we didn’t think it was terribly important …
Read More »The RetroBeat: 20 years of Final Fantasy IX, the best Final Fantasy
Get the most out of your game’s subscription plans Best practices for designing and managing your subscription strategy Access guide here I know that all us, myself included, are preoccupied by the next-gen (I guess they’re the current gen now) consoles. But I found out that today is the 20th …
Read More »In 15 Years, Mr DIY Grew From A Small KL Store To A Household Name Valued At RM10bil
Head into a Malaysian mall, and chances are that you’d see a Mr DIY shop. It’s pretty much become a staple in many of our malls. In July 2005, it was just a single hardware store along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. But by the end of the first year, it …
Read More »Timeline: History of the Housing Market Over the Last 50 years
Stay-at-home orders during the pandemic have forced many to rethink their living situation. Small apartments have stopped being cozy and are feeling too cramped to quarantine for months on end, driving some 22% of U.S. adults to relocate, or at least know someone else who has, according to the Pew …
Read More »After Growing Revenue By 500% In 2 Years, HealthMetrics Gets Fresh Funding Of RM20.8mil
HealthMetrics recently announced their success in securing a total of US$ 5 million (RM20.8 million) as part of its Series A funding. The round was led by ACA Investments, one of Asia’s leading investment groups from Japan with over US$ 1 billion assets under management. Established in Malaysia in 2015 …
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