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Gilamon – Project ConcreteJungle #12

Patrick Lim — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:11:06 +0000

Gilamon is Malaysia’s most inspiring indie scene, comics publishing company. Formed close to 10 years back with 3 founder’s (later joined by Tan Eng Huat) desire to create, what the local commercial industry is unable. Learn how comic titles such as Major Zombie, Agent Raygunn Smith and Cannibal Boy Private Investigator was bootstrapped through Year One with the help of xerox copiers, staples, silkscreens and a whole load of gritty creativity.

This recording was made during the Comics are cool! convention held at Earth638 on 29.10.11 – facebook.com/comicsarecoolnow

Project ConcreteJungle is a search for Malaysian entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. The project is free resource but is supported by Greenroom136 , learn about entrepreneurship from the experts.

TEDxKL – Project ConcreteJungle Bonus

Patrick Lim — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:17:51 +0000

With the upcoming TEDxYouth@KL conference happening on November 19th, 2011, we got hold of Daniel Cenvetus to learn more about the TEDx movement in Malaysia. To know more about TEDxKL, visit tedxyouthkl.com or www.facebook.com/TEDxKL.

FUEL – Project ConcreteJungle #11

Patrick Lim — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:21:41 +0000

Once upon a time, there live a Creative Director; his name is Jeremy Chin. One day, he quit his well paid job so that he could write and self publish a book. A book about a Creative Director – much like him – that had just quit his job to compete in the world’s most talked about New York Marathon. Jeremy titled his book, FUEL.We skype with Jeremy Chin to talk to him about his story of how he decided to quit his job, authored and self publish his book that many fans had credit as being extremely poetic and inspirational

Khailee Ng of Says During Geeks on A Plane in Hong Kong

Daniel CerVentus — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:47:02 +0000

It was good to have a tour with like minded people and recently, I manage to join Geek on A Plane in the Hong Kong leg of their tour. Here is an interview of another entrepreneur from Malaysia, Khailee Ng who is the co-founder of YouthAsia, Says and Groupsmore. (Groupsmore was eventually acquired by Groupon and became Groupon Malaysia)

Exclusive Interview with Paul Bragiel, Silicon Valley Comes 2 Malaysia

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:52:40 +0000

Today, we are join by Paul Bragiel the co-founder of I/O Ventures. Paul is a veteran in the Silicon Valley start up scene and I had the pleasure of meeting him in his fantastic new incubator and cafe last year. You can check out his funky co working place at a video done by TechCrunch.

Paul brings with him year of experience as CEO of 3 companies and he was the co founder of Lefora which revolutionize forums in the 21st century. Here is his profile on Crunchbase.

For more about Paul, you can follow him on twitter @bragiel

Note: Sorry Paul, love the picture with the beard.

What is Silicon Valley Comes 2 Malaysia

Daniel CerVentus — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:30:10 +0000

As mention in the previous post, there is going to be a bunch of startup founders and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley coming to Malaysia to meet local startups. This event includes the founder of Youtube and Linkedin. There will be also a bunch of angel investors and VC who will be on this trip. To tell us more about Silicon Valley Comes 2 Malaysia (SVC2M), we are join by Dash of Global Entrepreneurship Sdn. Bhd.

Green Packet’s Puan Chan Cheong to Keynote at BizStart

Daniel CerVentus — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:03:37 +0000

Puan Chan Cheong is one fantastic entrepreneur. He grew up in the backwaters of Pahang and when he was young, he made a deal with his parent who were rubber tappers. Because his family was poor, the deal was that he was allowed to skip helping the family in the morning as long as he can achieve the top student position in class. Being a young boy who do not want to wake up at 4am in the morning, he studied his ass off to ensure he was no 1.

As he was growing up, he was fascinated with software industry and seek his own fortune in Silicon Valley with a company called Green Packet that build software for broadband. Based in Cupertino and the company was going to hard times during the year 2000 when it was the burst of the dotcom bubble. The then CEO decide to bail and Puan was left with no choice but to find ways to make the idea work. He was lured by the prospect of the Multimedia Super Corridor and Malaysia’s vision to become the Silicon Valley of the East, he moved his entire operation to Kuala Lumpur.

He began aggressively marketing his solutions to regions such as China and the Middle East and that enabled him to raise more capital by listing his company on Bursa Malaysia. He then went further into the broadband business by bidding for a WiMax license and formed P14G.

When talking to Puan recently in a press event, you get the impression that this guy is aiming way beyond Malaysia and looking to establish an empire to enable universal broadband access.

To listen more about how this poor boy from Pahang fight his way to the top, head on to his keynote on 28th September in MAD Incubator’s Bizstart.Participation is free but you need to register here. For more details visit www.bizstart.com.my

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia on Leaderonomics Show

James Lee — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:09:08 +0000

Jimmy Wales visited Malaysia end of last year. It’s pretty cool to be able to meet up with him in such a short notice.

As you know, he’s an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia. In 2001, together with Larry Sanger and others, Wales helped launch Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia which enjoyed rapid growth and popularity. As Wikipedia’s public profile grew, Wales became the project’s promoter and spokesman. Wales is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the “co-” designation in declaring himself the sole founder. Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization which operates Wikipedia. He holds its board-appointed “community founder” seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a privately-owned, free Web-hosting service, with fellow Wikimedia trustee Angela Beesley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOr2a7R9zAY

Guy Clapperton, Best Selling Author & Journalist on Leaderonomics Show

James Lee — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:22:39 +0000

I consider myself lucky to be able to constantly meet great people from time to time running the Leaderonomics Show.

This guy, Guy Clapperton is friendly and funny. Off camera he cracked a few political football jokes about players from UK that unfortunately I could not include in the footage cause he said he will find himself in hot soup when he gets back to the UK.

Guy Clapperton is a freelance journalist, author and occasional broadcaster writing primarily for the National Press in the UK. He has been doing this for 20 years and have written a couple of books as well as appearing occasionally on BBC Radio. His specialists are News and feature writing, corporate copy writing, writing for websites, commissioning, editing at a National newspaper level. Voice work, podcasts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ90dAklke4

Shekhar Kapur, Golden Globe-Winning Director on Leaderonomics Show

James Lee — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:17:12 +0000

Awhile ago, I was fortunate enough to meet Shekhar Kapur himself. Yes, the Golden Globe-winning director who makes lush, international period films such as Elizabeth and The Four Feathers. Indian titles like Mr. India & Bandit Queen. Most recently, Kapur’s short film “Passages”" is part of the October 2009 film anthology New York, I Love You.

He is a very visionary guy with lots of ideas up in his head. Do check out the interview and leave your comments!