Open For Business

In honour of World Environment Day today, the co-founder of Tanamera, Mohamed Faisal bin Ahmad Fadzil, discusses how Tanamera has stuck to their core principles of using raw materials for their home spa & beauty products over the past two decades, as well as the environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how businesses can capitalise on the growing trend towards sustainable consumerism.

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Kontakte is a talent sourcing platform. They developed a platform that is the first of its kind where they connect readily available professionals with companies looking for immediate hires. Traditional recruitment platforms take companies anywhere from 1 week to 2 months to source their talent. On the Kontakte platform, talent sourcing times are under 1 day. 

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Virtual job fairs have never been more popular thanks to the Covid-19 lockdowns. We speak to co-founder of online career fair startup Seeds, Aiman Azfar about the new hype surrounding these virtual job fairs, the overwhelming success of their most recent edition, and how Corporate Malaysia and Malaysians are taking to this modish way of securing new jobs.

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Who’s renting? Who’s selling? How has the property market found its footing during the pandemic? We speak to Bjorn Sprengers, CMO and Head of Fintech at PropertyGuru, about Lend A Space, an initiative to help those who have been displaced due to the crisis, as well as PropertyGuru’s use of tech and innovation to help them plan ahead for a post-pandemic market.  

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Businesses all over the country and even the world have taken huge hits, from minor revenue dips to massive shut downs and bankruptcies. Here in Malaysia, the primary focus of every entrepreneur as they come out fully from the MCO is to get their businesses to survive and later down the road to thrive. Jeevan Sahadevan, business growth expert and founder of LeverageLab takes us through 18 questions in 6 areas to help you gain rapid momentum in your business growth-post MCO.

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On today's Voice of SMEs, CEO of Biotree Biotechnology Angeline Choo, an Alliance BizSmart Alumni herself, of came on the show to speak with us about how business has been during the pandemic, what’s changed, and what have they learned during these times.

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Today we talk about culture and vision for employees in light of the new norm. Our mentor today is Mitul Lakhani, the Group CEO of iMoney Group and our entrepreneurs today are from Endeavor Malaysia’s ScaleUp Program; Jun Yuen Lim, CEO & Co-Founder of Mossery and Zhen Ng, COO & Co-Founder of Vase.ai.

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What happens when you’re a swimming teacher and there’s a pandemic? You pivot. It might sound a little crazy to some, but to EJ he decided that there’s still the possibility for people to learn the science of swimming whilst at home.

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As businesses prepare their locations for in-house operations, several health safety precautionary measures have to be taken in order to reassure customers. Enter Kiple, a fintech company acquired by Greenpacket, ready to fill in the gaps. The Morning Run team spoke to group managing director and CEO C.C. Puan on the 13th of May about Greenpacket’s performance in general, but we spoke to him about how Kiple specifically has been holding up as well as their flagship proptech solution, KipleLive. 

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Unfortunately for Urban Daybreak co-founder, Jeremy Teoh, Urban Daybreak is a prime brunch spot that suffered greatly along with many other F&B outlets during the MCO. But instead of only going online for takeaways, Jeremy decided to take a bigger step - he started a whole new brand instead. We had him on the line to talk about both his F&B outlets, Urban Daybreak and his newer venture, Jeremy’s Chicks.

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