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Seven years ago, founder of Reebonz saw a gap in the luxury market. Since day one, Daniel Lim always believed in delivering the best experience to wow his customers and he calls it the Reebonz experience. Today, they have expanded to eight countries in Asia Pacific including Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan among others. 

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With the advent of technology, it is changing the nature of our work. David Creelman recently published a book called Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment.  It is especially applicable today with the amount of people being laid off, budget cuts, stress at work and the list goes on. David uses the IBM framework on how the organisation led the work.

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Malaysian International Food and Beverage (MIFB) is a platform for the F&B industry players to introduce, exchange knowledge and learn about the latest technologies from around the world. Last year they saw some 300 exhibitors from 36 countries and approximately RM144 million worth of sales was generated during the event. Paul Ng from Sphere Exhibits shares some of the highlights for the 2016 edition of MIFB.  

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Peer-to-peer lending has become the hottest industries in fintech. And it has reached our shores. Today we have Nikki Kinloch, CEO at SimplyGiving.com, a social crowdfunding platform that has worked with 550 nonprofit partners and social enterprises in 20 countries across Asia. We look at the global fundraising trend and if Malaysia is ready for micro financing and social lending.

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Pitch@Palace offers the chance to get your Tech business idea in front of a global audience of influencers who can catapult it to the next level.  Established by The Duke of York, in less than three years Pitch@Palace has helped over 205 businesses grow, with some now enjoying huge global success.  Pitch@Palace made a pitstop at Kuala Lumpur, where 14 hungry entrepreneurs vied for the opportunity to take their pitches to the Pitch@Palace Finals in the UK. Freda Liu speaks to  the Duke of York himself, Prince Andrew, on the importance of these competitions, what it means to source talent globally, and how entrepreneurs all across the globe can benefit from initiatives like Pitch@Palace. 

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Nuren Group launched the first Malaysian Venture Capital Quality Equity Crowd Funding (ECF) offer recently. Within the first few seconds of the launching, Nuren Group has received overwhelming response and has raised almost RM300,000. Petrina Goh and Kelvin Leow, founders of Nuren Group share their experience during the ECF campaign.

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We have a large amount of unutilised fund from the employer contributions and 30% of this pool fund is now being used to harness potential of talents via 1MalaysiaGRIP. HRDF Chief Executive talks about how the pool fund will solve the nation’s shortage of skilled workforce and how employees now have a choice to select what programmes they need to upskill themselves.

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The husband-wife team set out to start an independent bookstore back in 2006 and today, the homegrown Big Bad Wolf event is the biggest book sale event in Southeast Asia. With this success story, they are now expanding into Indonesia and Thailand. How are they coping with the regional market by selling just books? We’ll find out more from the founders of BookXcess, Andrew Yap and Jacqueline Ng. 

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Established in 1975 in Pakistan, Beaconhouse Group has grown to become one of the world’s largest private schools available in nine countries. In Malaysia alone, they own and operate 12 schools. Jahanzeb Shah, the CFO of the Regional Beaconhouse Group was the person who looked into acquiring schools internationally. We find out what goes into his criteria to acquire a school and how he revives them.

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The Malaysian creative industry is one that is thriving in talent but perceived to be lacking in many key areas be it funds, life skills or being market ready. FSquare is the first holistic initiative aimed to nurture and guide this industry for various trade platforms globally. The collaboration with Fashion Diplomacy International marks the beginning of FSquare and they are currently engaged in an exchange program which will organise a trade fashion presentation in New Zealand, Australia and Dubai.  We get first hand experience with one of the designers under FSquare, Fairuz Ramdan.

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