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Guerrilla Entrepreneurs series: Is this you?

Hani Khaursar — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:34:08 +0000

In the first part of the Guerrilla Entrepreneurs series I’d like to start by introducing the Guerrilla Entrepreneur.
Is this you?

Balance
You are an entrepreneur on a journey. You control your enterprise, not the other way around. Because you cherish your freedom as much as you do your work, you never compromise on a balanced work life.

Passion
You are passionate about your work. You are good at what you do but constantly look for ways to improve your skills.

Leader
You realize that no man is an island and rely on your allies to build your business. Your customers, employees, team mates and suppliers follow you because they believe in who you are and what you stand for.

Cutting Edge
You are a feverent and intelligent user of technology, to conserve two of your most precious assets – time and money. Huge marketing budgets are nice but not essential for your success.

Laser Beam Focus
You have initiative, insight and guts. You succeed because your efforts and focus defeat larger and better-funded competitors.

Brand Champion
You are in it for the long haul. You aim to build a business that will last and are willing to invest in the marketing of yourself and your brand.

Peak Life Experiences
You seek experiences that money cannot buy. You want work that is satisfying, enough money to enjoy, great health and fun in daily living. You will have your cake and eat it too.

Big Picture
You are passionate about making money but you are even more passionate about giving back to the family that raised you, friends that supported you, society that nurtured you and world that you prospered in.

(Thanks to Guerrilla Entrepreneurs)

Sound impossible that an entrepreneur can be all of the above? Well stick around and during this series I will introduce you to people who not only embody the above but are also open to showing you how you can be a Guerrilla Entrepreneur and practice 21st Century Entrepreneurship. If you are someone already a Guerrilla Entrepreneur, then drop me a line! I’d love to chat with you!

Catch you soon!

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Guerrilla Entrepreneur Series is part of a greater mission to empower people to live a life of passion, balance, abundance and the greater good.

A Week in Stanford & Silicon Valley – Part 1

michael — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:39:26 +0000

Taking the Local, Global! An Inspiration from the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)

The Co-Founder of Youth Entrepreneurs Malaysia and Youth Catalyst for the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Malaysia, relates his recent experience to be absorbed into the heart of Silicon Valley, through a 10 days learning, networking and pitching experience, organized during the Stanford Summit by Stanford University last April.

‘The event may be over, but the lessons are timely to be shared now on the site, especially when start-ups are looking for inspirations to recover from the global economic downturn. I hope this article, written in different parts can help inspire Malaysia’s young entrepreneurs to succeed and think global,’ said Michael Teoh who contributes towards Entrepreneurs.my’s editorial work as well.

‘I was inspired with the efforts put together by GEW and its partners both globally and locally here in Malaysia, and I echo the calling of our country host – Dash, who encouraged us locals to go global! And the Stanford Summit was a platform for me to spread our young Malaysian wings overseas!’ said Michael Teoh, an avid supporter of GEW.

The excitement and suspense to go through a highly selective pool that unites the world’s emerging student and youth entrepreneurs at one of the world’s leading universities, had certainly moved Michael Teoh to utilize such a golden opportunity to showcase Malaysia at the prestigious Stanford Summit. Michael, 23, was invited to participate and speak at the annual Stanford Summit, a prestigious summit of its kind, held in Stanford University that unites 40 of the region’s youngest and brightest minds in business with fellow business accolades, venture-capitalists, investors and researchers from the heart of Silicon Valley.

The Stanford Summit was packed with notable activities throughout its one week course, aimed to expose this exclusive group of 40 young entrepreneurs from 7 countries towards the culture, the entrepreneurial eco-system and the lessons, behind the walls of Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurial success stories like Facebook, Google and Twitter were born.

These 40 young, aspiring and hungry entrepreneurs were selected from the world’s leading universities from a global pool of talents, which saw thousands of youths applying to be part of the annual summit. They were selected based on their contributions towards the development of young enterprises in their respective communities, coupled with their influence and business experience at home.

‘We were given special tasks from pitching to Venture-Capitalists who invested in the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook about our business ideas, to unique business tasks like setting up a business with products and services within 48 hours and trying to sell a common ball-pen for the highest price!’ recalls Michael Teoh, who co-founded a community that unites and promotes young entrepreneurs in Malaysia, namely Youth Entrepreneurs Malaysia.

The Stanford Summit experience can be summed up as ‘Eye-Opening and Thought Provoking’ for the young aspiring Malaysian entrepreneur. There were many highlights to the event, with one being a special lecture series presented by the investor and mentor to global technology giants – Google and Amazon.com, along with different forum discussions headlined by fellow Silicon Valley experts on Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology, International Business and Start-Up Culture. A lighter side for the summit would have to be the networking opportunities presented to the 40 young entrepreneurs with notable business luminaries, investors, lecturers, alumni and students of Stanford University.

‘The lessons learnt in Silicon Valley must be shared to Malaysian entrepreneurs, and at the same time, we must showcase what we have done with our entrepreneurial landscape locally to a global audience, like the ones who were involved with the Stanford Summit,’ quotes Michael Teoh, who spent most of his time networking, collecting notes and interviewing key figures behind the growth of Silicon Valley.

‘I Invest In People!’ – A conversation with Venture-Capitalist, Randy Komisar

For Michael, the biggest headline of the entire summit, would be his close interaction with Randy Komisar, the Partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, CEO of LucasArts and most notably – The Investor for Google & Amazon.com. Mr. Komisar shared some valuable lessons for entrepreneurs around the world, especially those who want to get their start-ups into Silicon Valley.

The iconic venture-capitalist spoke about the staggering ratio of an average of 3,000 ideas being pitch to Silicon Valley investors, with 300 of them being looked at, leading up to 100 appointments to interview the entrepreneurs and ultimately leading up to only 2 ideas being funded to take-off!

‘I invest in You! I invest in People’ was possibly the strongest advice uttered by Randy Komisar, as he points out that most experienced investors from the Valley, does not only look for a sustainable and a sound business start-up to invest it, they would also look at the team of people behind it. As he shared that a weak business idea can evolve into a business success story, should one have the right team, with the right talents and most importantly drive to see the business flourish! Another startling find was that, more often than not, an entrepreneur’s initial pitch or idea for a business would most likely evolve, as he hits the market.

The sad scenario around the world is that, investors tend to judge an entrepreneur’s proposal and pitch based on its first draft, without noting that the product or service would most likely change, to adapt towards the market when the business is physically launched. It was suggested that start-ups should not only be judged for its business-viability during its initial business plan, but rather have investors judge the people who would be driving the start-ups instead.

‘Plan A is often flawed. Judge people as individuals instead of ventures alone. Plan B, after going through some scrutiny and feedback among fellow investors and experiences entrepreneurs would often work!’ as shared by Randy Komisar.

To be continued…Part 2

Open Web Asia – First Time In KL!

Aidan A Chew — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:49:53 +0000

OpenWebAsia – SEA is a regional technology and web business conference that brings together top minds in the web technology space.

In 2008, Open Web Asia was hosted in Seoul, South Korea at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill.

For the very first time, in 2010, Malaysia is privileged to be selected as the host of this inaugural premier summit . This year it will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel, on the 13th and 14th of July 2010.

The theme for Open Web Aisa – SEA 2010 is “Web Innovation In Asia”. Never before has Malaysia hosted a congregation of the worlds leading technology giants from all across the globe, with unprecedented speakers from Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, Tech Crunch, Digg.com and BANSEA just to name a few.

In Seoul, Korea Open Web Asia attracted 500 global leaders and delegates from across the globe to discuss on a Pan-Asian perspective on web businesses and groundbreaking technology waves that will shape the future of the world.

This global conference is produced by the Open Web Asia Workgroup , Malaysia Entrepreneurs , MSC Malaysia Innotech, IASA (International Association of Software Architecture), & Social Media Club KL.

VIEW OFFICIAL SITE HERE

   Aaron Tan Dani      Christine Songco Michael Francis Smith Jr        Mohan Belani
        Chairman              Technical Program Manager Director Director
             IASA Google      Yahoo      e27
      Asia-Pacific     San Francisco, USA Southeast Asia Singapore

Lichi Wu Simone Brunozzi Dr. Serkan Toto Brian Wong

APAC Sales & BD Technology Evangelist Writer Business Development

Former AdMob Amazon Tech Crunch Digg.com

Singapore Asia-Pacific Japan USA

Dr. Gang Lu Prof. Wong Poh Kam Patrick Chanezon Aaron Tan

CEO Chairman Client & Cloud Advocacy Brisbane Lead

Kuukie & Mobinode BANSEA Google MEGA

China Singapore San Francisco, USA Australia

View FULL SPEAKER LIST here.

WEB INNOVATION IN ASIA
This conference addresses current issues in the area of:

a. Enterprise Web
b. Government 2.0
c. Mobile Applications
d. Android & iphone Development Platforms
e. Could Computing & Location Based Services
f. Venture Capital & Funding
g. Social Media & Social Gaming
h. Architecture & Standards

WHO IS OWA FOR?

- Investors, Venture Capitalists, Private Equity Companies
- Directors, Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
- CEO’s, CIO’s, CTO’s & IT Managers
- Technology SME’s & MNCs
- Telcos & Communication Companies
- Web Developer, Programmers & Designers
- Advertising, Branding & Media Marketing Professionals
- Bloggers & Web Technology Enthusiasts
- Educators & Standard Institutions

WE’RE GIVING AWAY A FREE APPLE iPAD & GOOGLE NEXUS ONE!!

T3 with Richard Tan of Lelong.com

Daniel CerVentus — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:10:16 +0000

At the dawn of the dotcom boom in Malaysia more than 10 years ago, a young Technopreneur dreamt of building an online auction site that would be the de-facto auction site in Malaysia to rival eBay, the 8,000 pound gorilla from the US.

Started during the dotcom boom, he had to struggle through the global dotcom bust in 2000 but he persevered and today his site is the No.1 online auction site in Malaysia. It must be more than luck. He is one of the very few Malaysian entrepreneurs to manage an Internet based business in a leadership position in the region. The site is LELONG.COM the brainchild of Richard Tan.

Richard has kindly agreed to share his entrepreneurial journey with us, so join us for an interesting and colorful Internet adventure story. Click HERE for his profile.

Join us on 17th June 2010 (Thursday) at PappaRich Bangsar, right across Bangsar Village II. Agenda as follow:

6:30pm-6:45pm – Registration and networking
6:45pm-8:00pm – Experience sharing with Richard Tan of Lelong.com.my

Who else would you meet there? Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, Service Provider, Consultants. Wonder how you can identify the different people then? We have colour code for attendees:
Entrepreneurs – Orange sticker
VCs & Investors – Green sticker
Service providers/consultants – Red sticker

IMPORTANT NOTE: Registration is required to enable us to save you a seat.
Any cost involved? Yes, RM30.00 for public and RM15.00 for paid TeAM members. Food and drink included. Early bird special of RM25.00 if you pay online by 15 June 2010!
Ticket purchase is not refundable for no show, nor for exchange.

Join us by RSVP at the link below:
http://apps.socialwalk.com/events/391-team-t3-get-together-june-2010-richard-tan-from-lelongcommy

Sembang Sembang

Daniel CerVentus — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:32:34 +0000

Sembang Sembang session on Thursday, 10 June and we are going to be chatting about Social Entrepreneurship!

Sembang-Sembang is the monthly networking session for women entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs-to-be. It brings together a group of Malaysian women entrepreneurs to share together their inspirations, challenges and aspirations as entrepreneurs in a casual and informal setting. Sembang-Sembang is brought to you once again by the US Embassy in Malaysia and Warisan Global Sdn Bhd as a Global Entrepreneurship Week activity.

The event details are as follows:

Date: Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Time : 5.00pm (registration) 5:30pm – 7.30pm (Sembang Sembang)
Venue: Top Hat Restaurant, No.3, Jalan Stonor, 50450, Kuala Lumpur
(Limited parking is available inside the restaurant, so do come early!)

Agenda
5.00pm Registration
5.30pm Welcoming remarks
5.40pm Presentation by Dash, Host of GEW Malaysia 2010 and Malaysian representative at US Presidential Summit 2010.
5.50pm Video presentation on GEW
5.55pm Ice-breaking session
6.05pm Casual Conversations by Women on Entrepreneurship
Topic : Social Entrepreneurship
Conversations by
Representative from the US Embassy
Florence Lambert Lee, Director of Gadis Manis Malaysia
Ariane Van Pee from Mang Tha, Alliance of Chin Refugee
Puah Sze Ning from Elevyn Sdn Bhd

6.35pm Question and Answers
7.00pm Networking and Refreshments
7.30pm Session ends

Seats are limited. Please book your seat now before 5pm, June 9th, 2010.

To RSVP and for further information, please contact:

Tini : 016 2112682 / nurhartini@warisanglobal.com
Vivian : 012 307 0658 / vivian@warisanglobal.com

TechCrunch Meet Up

Daniel CerVentus — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:59:46 +0000

In-conjunction with the celebration of TechCrunch birthday, we are going to organize a meetup in
Plug and Play Technology Garden. So far there are 34 people who are interested in the event from the Meetup page where the event is coordinated.

Agenda:
the event will start at 8pm while we order pizza or food.
Please come early if you keen to help out with the event.

Also we will be having lightning talks about lean startups so drop us a note at editor (at) entrepreneurs.my
if you are keen to give a 5 minute talk on the topic.

Entrepreneurs.my brings Startup Digest to Malaysia

Daniel CerVentus — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:58:08 +0000

Following our sister site SgEntrepreneurs, we proud to announce we are going to curate the Malaysia Startup Digest.

Startup Digest is an global initiative to curate startups related events and present them as newsletter to members. Started by Chris McCann and Brendan McManus a couple months ago, this group currently served over 30K members world wide and gain attention from sites like TechCrunch and Mashable.

We are going to supply you with the most interesting tech and startup related events from all around Malaysia and if you are organizing something please send us your events at editor (at) Entrepreneurs.my by the Friday before the week of your event as the newsletter will be out on Monday.

Looking forward to see you all at some of the these startup events.
Sign up for Startup Digest here

Malaysia SME Mini Congress

Daniel CerVentus — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:19:08 +0000

There is nothing better than to learn from the best out there. Mohamed Ali Noordin the CEO of logistics company ABX express on building a successful business in Malaysia. ABX Express is currently the fastest growing air express company in Malaysia.

Entrepreneurs.my and Malaysia SME is proud to present the May Mini Congress which is a montly business networking event for small and medium business owners.

About the speaker Mohamed Ali Bin Noordin

Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer and Country Manager
Mohamed Ali Noordin joined the ABX Group in 1991. Prior to that, he was with DHL-Malaysia and Skypak (TNT)-Middle East & Africa for 10 years in various senior management positions. As the person at the helm, he is responsible for providing the strategic direction for all the ABX Group Member Companies. Mohamed Ali’s vast experience in the courier service industry and his active participation in the day-to-day management of the Group have ensured the smooth running of the business operations. His regular involvement in the sales and marketing activities has enabled the organization to register more than RM45 million in the annual turnover. A master of his trade, his hands-on management style will propel ABX, which is currently the fastest growing courier service company in Malaysia, into a new era.

About ABX Express

ABX EXPRESS started it’s Malaysia and Brunei operations 26 years ago in Labuan and has since grown to service the whole nation through our own Network of 63 offices/service centers.

for more details of the event visit http://bit.ly/9JcwjB

Details below:
Date: 21st May 2010
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Venue: Ground Floor, Podium Block, Wisma Synergy, Lot 72, Pesiaran Jubli Perak, Seksyen 22, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor

to register visit http://bit.ly/9CLfNz

There will be a RM 50 donation at the door which proceed will be given to Pusat Jagaan Sri Sai Orphanages in Jalan Ipoh Kuala Lumpur.

Career and Entrepreneurship fair for Graduates

Daniel CerVentus — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:08:19 +0000

The Ministry of Higher Education will be organizing a career and entrepreneurship fair dubbed K3G this 14th to 16th May. This career exhibition is jointly organized and powered by JobStreet and will be featuring over 400 companies offering jobs to the fresh graduates.

According to Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, there are over 10,000 students that graduate in Malaysia local universities. Since not all of these graduates can visit the event in Kuala Lumpur, therefore there will be an online registration which will also help out in the registration. Saifuddin added last year there was a long queue in the registration even with 200 terminals. He highly encourage the graduates to register online.

As for the entrepreneurship, there will be a couple of talks throughout the whole 3 days which will be beneficial for the students.

The event details are as follow:
Date: 14 – 16 May 2010
Time: 9am – 6pm
Venue: PWTC (KL) (map)
Fee: ENTRANCE IS FREE

ITEX 2010

Daniel CerVentus — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:12:52 +0000

Once again Malaysia premier innovation and invention showcase is happening. ITEX 2010 will bring to you over 12000 vistors with more than 100 inventions from over 10 countries. This year, ITEX will be hosting a concurrent which is the Asian Young Inventors Exhibition.

The inventors and exhibitions over in ITEX will be focusing on bringing the inventions and innovation to market. Traditionally will be also a lot of intellectual property firm exhibiting to offer their service and advice.

Event Hightlights
- Green Inventions
- Concurrent Exhibition: AYIE 2010 (Asian Young Inventors Exhibition)
- Invention and Design Competition / Awards
- Intellectual Property and Innovation Seminar 2010 (IPI 2010)
- Malam Budaya Cipta (Award Presentation and Dinner – A Celebration Of Creativity Banquet)

Event details
Date : 14 – 16 May 2010
Opening Hours : 10.00am – 6.00pm (14 – 15 May 2010)
10.00am – 5.00pm (16 May 2010)
Venue : Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For more details visit http://www.itex.com.my