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AVANA is a social commerce platform that helps business owners sell online. They have helped over 100,000 businesses optimize their brands and automate their business capabilities online. Dough Little meanwhile is an arts and crafts business offering handcrafted natural play dough that tastes safe for children. Soh Yien Yee, COO and Co-Founder of AVANA and Dr Wong Mei Mei, Founder of Dough Little talk to us about starting their business, the challenges they face and their upcoming plans.

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Flipping sneakers have been a viable business for decades. According to Statistica, a company specialising in market and consumer data, the overall global resale sneakers market is forecasted to reach a value of US$97.8 billion by 2024. In Asia, Novelship is known to be the fastest-growing marketplace for sneakers and streetwear. After just two years into the business, they have achieved their first US$1 million monthly revenue milestone despite the recent pandemic.

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Right now, many people are unable to celebrate with their loved ones in the traditional way. Lockdown restrictions and physical distancing remove a lot of joy and sharing from the celebration equation. So how do you still reach out with a nice, safe gesture? Ryo Okubo, director of Giftee Malaysia, discusses the concept of eGifting and how virtual gifts can benefit both the consumers and the merchants.

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Mono Premium Melon aims to grow the best Japanese melons in Malaysia using Japanese methods. With their IoT setup, the amount of nutrients or water a plant needs, amending the fertiliser composition and monitoring its temperature can all be done remotely. We speak with the co-founder of Mono about their radical methods, which include playing music for their melons.

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On this episode of Failing Forward, we discuss the Pareto Principle - the 80/20 connection that was discovered in the 1800s but is still being applied to almost every aspect of our lives today, especially in the business world.

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A centralised kitchen with shared services staff, dining and sales infrastructure so that vendors can focus solely on cooking delicious and nutritious food is what MOJOS Kitchen aspires to be. The co-founders, Gaurav Joshi and Sharayas Saranthan, discuss why they started MOJOS and how they plan to expand their food delivery service company.

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A centralised kitchen with shared services staff, dining and sales infrastructure so that vendors can focus solely on cooking delicious and nutritious food is what MOJOS Kitchen aspires to be. The co-founders, Gaurav Joshi and Sharayas Saranthan, discuss why they started MOJOS and how they plan to expand their food delivery service company.

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Founded in 2014, WhyQ started out as a hawker-first digital ecosystem enabling hawkers in Singapore to deliver cooked food and order wholesale raw-material supplies aided with integrated POS systems. WhyQ works to digitalise not just hawkers, but also small businesses such as MSMEs across all industries and sectors in Malaysia.

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The pandemic has thrust many a business headfirst into the world of e-commerce whether they’ve liked it or not, and with the surge of companies crowding the internet, it can feel like your brand is getting lost in the crowd. Benjamin Fong, founder of digital marketing AI-infused platform, Peasy.AI, tells us about how he’s revolutionising digital marketing with artificial intelligence.

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Eatcosys is an F&B and retail tech solution provider that aims to help businesses ride the wave of disruption by going digital. The platform, which provides digital solutions that cover the entire lifecycle of F&B businesses, is the brainchild of Vincent Kok - formerly of event-tech provider VMO and foodie site foodadvisor.my. We speak to Vincent about the impact Eatcosys is making in the F&B segment, their recent acquisition run, as well as how they plan to maintain their aggressive growth post-pandemic.

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