Head's Up

10/06/2022

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. Recently the team received an invitation to the Stripe and Gobi Partners’ Pitching, Networking and Lunch event. The networking session saw a diverse group of startup founders along with ecosystem supporters from MRANTI, MDEC and Endeavor Malaysia among others.

Kicking off the session with a Fireside Chat, Co-founder of PolicyStreet and recently titled new President of the Fintech Association of Malaysia, Wilson Beh shared a couple of insights and challenges he gained and faced as an entrepreneur.

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Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. Recently the team received an invitation to the Stripe and Gobi Partners’ Pitching, Networking and Lunch event. The networking session saw a diverse group of startup founders along with ecosystem supporters from MRANTI, MDEC and Endeavor Malaysia among other...

04/04/2022

Head's Up chats with Joshua Lim, co-founder of Beebag on utilising gamification to encourage more shoppers to use reusables so that fewer single-use plastics will be used.

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Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. This week, we bring you our chat with social entrepreneur, Joshua Lim who co-founded Beebag with his twin brother. With a mission to end plastic pollution through the gamification of reusable bags, Beebag seeks to grow the community through positive reinforcem...

23/03/2022

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up! It’s been a busy week for us here with some exciting news to share very soon! While we are gearing up for a new phase of growth and in preparation of bringing you guys new and exciting content, we would like to thank each and every one of you for continuing to support us.

Let us know what are some of the areas that you would like to know more about and stories that you would like to see us feature.

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Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up! It’s been a busy week for us here with some exciting news to share very soon! While we are gearing up for a new phase of growth and in preparation of bringing you guys new and exciting content, we would like to thank each and every one of you for continuing ...

07/03/2022

In our International Women’s Day special, we speak to PC Gan, Country Manager of Homage Malaysia. She shares a her journey, challenges women face in corporate and the future she envisions for women in the workforce.

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. Despite significant progress having achieved to improve workplace opportunities for women across the world, the pandemic that has stretched for over 2 years has also significantly impaired progress in the workplace.

28/02/2022

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. This week, we are looking into addressing ineffective employee engagement and why if left unresolved, could cost companies more than just a good employee. Victor Phang of WorkSmartly shares his thoughts with us and ways to better to manage communication.

22/02/2022

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. This week, we are bringing you a byline by Tengku Azrul Tengku Azhar, Head of Innovation Ecosystem, Futurise who pens his thoughts on tackling age-old challenges, the need for adaptive regulations and the importance of growing an innovative ecosystem in Malaysia.

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. This week, we are bringing you a byline by Tengku Azrul Tengku Azhar, Head of Innovation Ecosystem, Futurise who pens his thoughts on tackling age-old challenges, the need for adaptive regulations and the importance of growing an innovative ecosystem in Malays...

07/02/2022

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. This week, we speak to the co-founders of Task2Bid , a platform that enables users to hire gig workers to make their tasks easier. Users can also register themselves as gig workers on the platform and with the variety of services onboard, there’s something for everyone.

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26/01/2022

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. Today, we have a byline by Edwin Wang, the CEO and Co-Founder of Signature Market who speaks about the challenges and lessons he had gone through the journey of establishing Signature Market.

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. Today, we have a byline by Edwin Wang, the CEO and Co-Founder of Signature Market who speaks about the challenges and lessons he had gone through the journey of establishing Signature Market. But just before you go on to read his thoughts, here are some news a...

04/01/2022

Welcome back to an all new Head’s Up and a Happy New Year to all our subscribers, partners and readers who have supported us by subscribing, reading and sharing our articles. It’s been quite the ride for the team behind Head’s Up but with your support, we have only grown bigger and stronger.

We would like to thank everyone who have been with us since the start and to our partners who trusted Head’s Up to put their stories out there.

For the first issue of 2022, we spoke to Sunway iLabs on their iLabs Foundry entrepreneurship programmes, LaunchX and why the right changes have to take place within the education system for the birth of new entrepreneurs.

Till our next issue, take care and stay safe

Welcome back to an all new Head’s Up and a Happy New Year to all our subscribers, partners and readers who have supported us by subscribing, reading and sharing our articles. It’s been quite the ride for the team behind Head’s Up but with your support, we have only grown bigger and stronger.

04/12/2021

News, Announcements & Events A One-stop Platform For Malaysian Startup Data, Resources, News and Insights. Muru-ku is a one-stop platform for Malaysian startup data, resources, news and insights. The platform contains more than 660 Malaysian Startups and is a platform filled with resources such as T...

04/12/2021

The team behind Cikguu is made up of Aziz who worked as an Associate Product Manager at an edtech company, Arif worked as Software Engineer Trainee at AirAsia, and Mathew is the founder of math YouTube channel, Y=mx+c.

Aziz and his team are now planning to launch the Cikguu App in January 2022, which will first include their very first offering, SPM Plus. Students will be able to carry out digital exercises and analyse their performance to better achieve the best grades they can in their upcoming SPM exams.

Welcome back to an all-new Head’s Up. This issue, we spoke to Aziz Iskandar, CEO & Co-founder of Cikguu and Bikesh Lakhmichand, CEO & Founding Partner of 1337 Ventures on Cikguu’s victorious emergence from their latest cohort and going beyond just educating students.

04/12/2021

"Always be patient and be positive. Your workplace might look the same, but we all need to accept that there will be plenty of disruption and unexpected alterations as we learn to cope with covid becoming endemic," Hew Gill, Professor of Psychology & Associate Provost, Sunway University

Welcome back to an all-new issue of Head’s Up. In celebration of our 1 year, we went on a little break hence the absence of the last 2 issues. But we are back and we have exciting new content to share in the weeks to come. For this issue, we have Hew Gill, Professor of Psychology & Associate Provo...