Podcast highlights:

05:12 Mohamed Hassan, Director of MARND studio, shares how it is not needed for a team to be in the same physical space anymore with the rise of digital media.

15:40 Working with a worldwide team, Hassan shares why recruiting talented individuals across the globe is a major pain point.

20:47 Having tried various methods, Hassan shares how SEO is a vital key to distinguish MARND from other bigger and well known design companies.

Podcast highlights:

03:07 At a time where Instagram was not established Clare Chan, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Her Velvet Vase, shares how she made her first dollar through blogs and built her customer base

13:00 Clare shares her initial struggles as a CEO and explains what are the characteristics needed for a CEO to run a successful business

30:05 Clare shares that she is shifting her business from online to offline, as she wants her customer's to immerse themselves into the Her Velvet Vase experience

Highlights:

08:00 When Clemen was in the fourth year in university, he fell in love with stocks and dived into stock investing.

20:20 Clemen explains "same information, different interpretation" in a stock market.

35:00 Clemen shares that there are three major groups in the stock market and explains these groups.

Damien Cummings, CEO of Peoplewave, has experienced 20+ years at the highest levels of corporate. His marketing career resume includes some of the world’s most prominent blue chip names: Standard Chartered Bank, Philips, Samsung, Dell, Ogilvy & Mather, Citibank Australia, Coca-Cola and McKinsey. Damien knows better than anybody how the market for talent is evolving fast and how many corporates are struggling to both retain and reward the best. In this interview, we explore Damien’s motivation to leave the most comfortable of corporate careers and explore the startup world of the entrepreneur. We also explore the world of Peoplewave and Damien’s personal mission to enable corporates to nurture and retain talent in meaningful ways.

Highlights:

06:40 Luka Fajs tells us more about strokes. 70% of the stroke survivors get another stroke within a year. In US alone there 7 million stroke survivors who are the early adopters to this device. There is a very high correlation between diabetes, heart failure and stroke.

14:30 Luka shares with us how he challenged himself by going out for the research of dangerous diseases that don't have treatments and vaccines and at least 30% mortality which was also his benchmark. He always wanted to do something that could make a huge difference.

24:50 Graham and Luka also talks about how important it is to be flexible with your approach in a startup world and do what is best for the company. Luka's long term vision for this product is to create a universal reader that can read any test at home.

Highlights:

00:47 Cloudzen is a streaming platform for games. In three words, it is Netflix for games.

15:53 Robin shares that most mobile games annoy people to pay. He argues that games should be entertaining and people should pay because they enjoy it, not forced.

35:06 Robin is raising 6 million USD. He is interested in smart money from a strategic partnership, not dumb money.

02:50 John Wise,CEO of loci, elaborates how learning was traditionally was only available through books or teachers. which were trustworthy. However, internet has changed the landscape of learning. Everything is available online, hence this causes an information overload and most information untrustworthy.

13:02 Kyle shares the impact globalisation has made on the way businesses are created and how products are sold. John then explains how loci is going to expand it's services on a global scale

32:48 John shares how expensive and time consuming it is to file for a patent. Hence, loci nexus expedites the process for the right to file a patent and how it will be made available for the global market

"Asia Matters" touches on the most pertinent issues in the Asian tech & startup ecosystem. Our guests provide valuable insights that everybody, from entrepreneurs to investors, can apply in the advent of The Asian Century.

"Asia Matters" touches on the most pertinent issues in the Asian tech & startup ecosystem. Our guests provide valuable insights that everybody, from entrepreneurs to investors, can apply in the advent of The Asian Century.

Harith Bakri, Co-Founder of Galaspace, joins us all the way from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. 19 year old Harith founded this event marketplace while still at college. In this interview, we discuss Harith's funding plans, how he recruited his team through Habbo Hotel and his strategy to build a community of event planners and consumers.