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Ever struggled to tell someone what your business is about? Well, a couple of lessons on storytelling might help you. Let Johnny "The Journeyman" Gillet equip you with the right skills to sell your business better, create better business presentations and help your brand resonate with customers. All of this, using just basic storytelling. 

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Lapasar is an online B2B procurement platform that allows companies to purchase general supplies for their businesses via a system that acts very much like a ‘add-to-cart and checkout’ service used in B2C marketplaces. The site also provides businesses with procurement features to help companies establish governance within their respective procurement departments in hopes of upping efficiency and convenience during your procurement runs. Lapasar co-founders Thinesh Kumar and Lakshman Das join us to talk about their meteoric rise to success, and their mission to provide equal opportunity to the deserving.

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Social Enterprise Academy, founded in Scotland 14 years ago, aims to take ownership to fill the gap in supporting and training social enterprises in over 30 countries. They aim to help social entrepreneurs find new ways of meeting the challenges of delivering high social impact as well as financial sustainability. We speak to Sam Baumber, Chief Executive Officer of Social Enterprise Academy, who will share with us some insights into the only social entrepreneurial training hub in Malaysia.

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You often think about doing your laundry or mopping your floors. But how often do you clean your carpets or your upholstery - and do you even know how? CleanHero offer specialised fibre care services for just those things in your house you don't even consider cleaning. We speak to Bin Mohammad Mahfuz and Emilia Nizar all about CleanHero and how they are tackling a new strategy for fabric cleaning.

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Established in June 2010, Expedio Design is a boutique multi-disciplinary creative consultancy based in Petaling Jaya. Their teams execute a controlled, finely-tuned product development process that blends design with strategy, research, engineering and prototyping, ensuring the best possible solution to any design challenge. We speak to founders Li Soong and Tee Chian about their process, the evolution of design, and their newest pet-project, the Lightersaber!

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Founded in April 2016, Ezyhaul is transforming the Southeast Asian road freight market with its on-demand trucking technology platform. Leveraging on the ‘shared economy’ model, the startup effectively utilises the empty space on trucks on the Malaysian roads, providing truckers with a way to generate additional income. We speak to founders Raymond Gillon and Mudasar Mohamed about blending tech and transport, the challenges of the shared economy template, as well as the prospects of the Malaysian market.

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In Malaysia’s warm tropical climate, it is always important to stay hydrated and stay healthy. A great way to fulfill both goals is a nice refreshing juice or smoothie! Gary Low, director of JuiceLab, Stephen Lim, co-founder of JuiceLab, and Andrew Liew, co-founder of JuiceLab, talk to us all about JuiceLab’s journey and how it separates itself as unique in an over-saturated F&B market.

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Since Dah Makan last spoke to BFM a year ago, their sales have tripled and they have expanded extensively. We catch up with Jonathan Weins, CEO, to ask him how the company has been able to grow so fast, how they intend on maintaining their momentum, and what plans Dah Makan has for the future. We also discuss their $2.6 million in seed funding they acquired from startup accelerator Y Combinator and what they intend to put that funding towards.

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The Global Accelerator Programme is an annual programme dedicated to helping startups learn the skills to scaling in the ASEAN area. Tanuja Rajah explains more about the four month programme and how it works, and Nasir Habizar and Mark Choo speak to us as CEOs who have benefited from the programme in the past.

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South Korean car sharing service Socar is making its first overseas expansion by allowing Malaysian users to book or rent a car for hours, days, or maybe even a week… all via the SOCAR app. We speak to Leon Foong, CEO of SOCAR Malaysia, about the market for car-sharing as opposed to ride-hailing, the promise of the Malaysian market, as well as the challenges SOCAR has faced so far.

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