Open For Business

We often miss our deliveries whenever we are at work or out for a meeting. Nicolas Chin realised this gap and decided to build a network of pick-up points to collect the parcels at nearby convenient stores. Postco was launched in January this year and now their service is available in over 70 locations.

Viva Starfish is a social enterprise that sells bottled water and 10 percent of the sale goes to charity. Beyond that, they embrace the less fortunate in every step of their business operation.  Jerryson Doss shares how they stumbled into this business and ended up providing shelter and jobs to the homeless through Viva Starfish.

Located in the centre of Desa Sri Hartamas, among the Japanese, Korean, Italian and German restaurants and bars; came Steaks & Lobsters, a surf-&-turf specialist. With the aim to provide fresh meat and seafood to protein lovers, Lucas and Nicholas share their story behind this hearty food place with the We.Live.To.Eat philosophy.

Has there been a time where you realised your F&B retail outlet isn’t working out and perhaps, entering the distribution market is your next option? Sabrie Salleh, founder of Burger Bakar Abang Burn saw the death of the Burger Bakar trend and pivoted into frozen food production which are now successfully distributed into Halal marts and hypermarkets in different pockets of Klang Valley. On the other hand, La Famiglia food truck is in the midst of moving into the pasta sauce space. What’s attractive about being a distributor? We hear the conversation between the two food entrepreneurs.

Menswear and macchiatos are on the menu at 15 Sheets here in Malaysia- with a recent venture into Sydney, we find out what founder Yee Lee Keong has got in store with the newly opened Rumah, and how he has brought the local touch to his lifestyle brand down under

LOKA Malaysia retail store is the first of its kind that plays as a central retail-hub for young Malaysians. They curate which local brands are to be placed on their shelves for all. They aim to elevate Malaysia independent brands into a solid brick & mortar platform for an upscale retail exposure and the first LOKA retail is located at Nu Sentral.

A good design is subjective and always in the eye of the beholder. When you work for an agency, you’re often limited by the requirements of the client and you lose your creative freedom. Our guest today Sean Lee began with Eminent, an agency that offers design services. But later on, they ventured out to set up Pereka.my. Their mission is to create unique print designs for Malaysian festivals.

 Having to greet with a hello was the ultimate reason of choice for the name Hello by Kitchen Mafia. One of the two celebrity chefs, made known from Asian Food Channel, Sherson Lian shares everything about a cafe they opened - Hello by Kitchen Mafia, in Seksyen 17, Happy Mansion, PJ. 

 Up The Ante is the show where we help bring your business forward by getting entrepreneurs to talk about their challenges and how they overcame them.  Kopitiam Talk is a new series where we get two entrepreneurs together to have a casual chat over coffee. On episode three, we discover what are the struggles of running a Seafood restaurant as well as a wholesaler which deals a lot with wrong perception from consumers. 

How badly do we love free WiFi? If you’ve ever spent a chunk of your time in a foreign land, desperately scouring cafes and airports for signs of that ubiquitous logo, then the answer is quite clear. Banking on this insatiable need for constant connectivity, Timothy Tsui co-founded FansWiFi, a service in Hong Kong that allows merchants to supercharge their free WiFi into a marketing tool, to attract and engage users.