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Far Post Academy is a startup that offers futsal lessons for kids aged 18-months and up. They specialise in the technical, tactical and social aspects of futsal, and were kicking things into the big leagues when Covid-19 served them a red-card. They’ve since pivoted to take their futsal lessons online, offering respite for kids and relief for their parents. We speak to Director Jeremy Dev about FPA’s game plan for the near future, and preparations for if and when the pandemic goes into extra-time.

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From a sound guy for Datuk Leonard Tan to starting InFront Consulting Group Asia Pacific, an award-winning pioneer regional specialist in Cloud & Data Center Consulting, Ray Chou is known as a serial entrepreneur that invests both in businesses and people’s life as he is also a business coach with Owners’ Circle. We speak to Ray about how he pulled it off, what inspires him and his vision.

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Neybrfood is a curated online marketplace for home-cooked meals by home chefs within their neighbourhood. From their kitchen to your dining table, we enable home-chefs in the neighbourhood to earn an income from home whilst making delicious home cooked meals.

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Many companies have leveraged the nature of the pandemic to embrace e-commerce fully, but with less in-person customer interaction, do brands really know what their customers want? Eyo Zhen Yi, managing director of e-commerce beauty platform Threebs, shares his thoughts on the beauty industry and the relationship between data management and successful e-commerce.

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Evolet is a home-grown digital platform that provides secure salary management for employers, as well as financial access and savings for the unbanked. We catch up with Founder and CEO Johnson Yu to discuss the challenges in serving the needs of unbanked Malaysians and the migrant workforce in the country, how they plan to digitalise the underserved segment of the population, and how all of this started with a conversation with a grass cutter.

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In 2014, the United Nations estimated that 55% of the world's urban population lived in the Asia-Pacific region. Today, more than 50% of the Asian-Pacific population has become urbanized, with over 1.2 billion people living in urban centers. However, the urban poor has still been largely marginalized. Tim Tan, CEO and Founder of AffordAble Abodes, aims to build more affordable and environmentally-sound, low-cost housing for the less fortunate around the world.

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Sometimes, you have to go back to something that you love, and when you can turn that something you love into a business, there's potential for something great. We all know that Nasi Lemak is close to every Malaysians' heart, and when we want comfort food, nothing comes close to Nasi Lemak. Starting her business with just RM1 in the bank, Deborah has set out on a journey to produce gourmet home-cooked Nasi Lemak from her kitchen, and her heart delivered to your doorstep.

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The pandemic has affected the education sector immensely, with schools and other learning institutions forced to shutter their doors and move almost entirely online. To help provide a perspective on what that shift was like, Melissa Liew, founder of Learning Fresh, an English studio-based innovation school for young learners aged 3-12, shares her thoughts.

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With the desire to provide better alternatives to fast food, Ahmad Syafik Jaafar of Ira Noah co-founded Nanka, a company that uses jackfruits as burger patties. To find out why, we speak to Ahmad Syafik Jaafar while discovering how jackfruits stand out when compared to other meat substitutes and his aspirations for Nanka.

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As our country and the world continue to vaccinate, citizens work through lockdowns and other pandemic strategies, businesses fight to survive as employees lose their jobs too. Founder of Leverage Lab, Jeevan Sahadevan provides a powerful yet simple framework for everyone to put into their businesses and lives to begin thriving despite the continuing pandemic.

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