iMoney founder, Lee Ching Wei was selected as the 8th Endeavor Entrepreneur from Malaysia at the 63rd International Selection Panel in Dubai on March 1-3rd, 2016. This was not an easy ride as he was first turned away at his first Local Selection Panel two years ago. For the first episode of Endeavor Hour, we speak to Ching about his experience at the International Selection Panel together with Anand Krishnan, Managing Director at Endeavor Malaysia. 

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Malati Siniah has been covering the festival all week and she will be giving us with her predictions on what will win at Cannes.

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Lion & Lion, a  full-service digital agency recently formed a new branch of design which is the User Experience design. Jenifer Ooi, the Creative Director began her digital role by working on award-winning websites - Tourism Malaysia, Maxis and recently won a Markies for Best Web Design Idea for the TIME - The Future is Flexible campaign. Jenifer shares how to avoid the pitfalls of awful UX design. 

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The Center for Asia Leadership (CAL) was established in Cambridge among scholars in the Harvard Community. The regional office for Asia is located in Kuala Lumpur in collaboration with the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation. Samuel Kim, co-founder of the non-profit organization talks about how CAL addresses public needs and problems in Asia through research, development, training and publication initiatives in the areas of public leadership, entrepreneurship and education in the region. 

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From a relatively unheard company, Freelancer has grown to become the biggest marketplace for freelancers in six years. They’ve acquired over 14 companies- could this be the strategy to their growth?  Joining us today is Deputy CFO of Freelancer, Christopher Koch talking about the growth strategies for Freelancer.

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Mobile Marketing has been growing at over 100% year-on-year for four years and it is projected to overtake desktop marketing. The objective of any marketing campaign is to get people to purchase or consumer the product but it has been a growing pain to measure that specific ROI. Rohit Dadwal, Managing Director at Mobile Marketing Association, shares about how mobile wallet could close that loop and solve marketer’s growing pain.

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 It is something that has been on a lot of employers’ minds, but no one has really come out and say anything. Why job seekers spam? That’s a burning question from Derek Toh, founder of WOBB, a job-finding platform for millennials. We explore how technology has not only helped but also hindered the industry with the spammy job seeking behavior. 

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Ai Sunaga has served Nobu Restaurants for over 10 years. She has worked at Nobu in London, Melbourne, Turkey and now Kuala Lumpur. We follow her journey in working for celebrity chef, Nobu Matsuhisa and a Michelin star restaurant that has expanded to 30 outlets across five continents. Ai shares the challenges in setting up Nobu in Kuala Lumpur and how they managed to uphold Nobu’s brand.  

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It’s the final episode of our series 50 Shades of Strategy in collaboration with the UCSI Consulting Group. In Episode 1, we talked about the 3 key elements of business - strategy, innovation and leadership. In Episode 2, we talked about business makeovers and the art of being lean and mean. In Episodes 3 and 4, we talked about innovation. And in Episode 5, we spoke about Blue Ocean Leadership and managing and aligning people.  In the last episode, we continue the discussion on leadership and summarise the entire series.

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APPIES is an awards show where entrants make their case in front of a jury and industry audience. Malati Siniah, Chief Content Officer at Marketing Magazine gives us her top three picks of her favorite campaigns that won the Gold Medal at the event.

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